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The Camcorder
Jerome Lemelson created The camcorder in 1980. The camcorder was a self contained portable electronic device that allowed you to take videos and record as its primary function. -
IBM PC
It was the first microcomputer that people were able to have personally in their homes. With only 16 kb to 256 kb, it allowed people to could connect to a television and enabled users to process text and play games. It also created the way for business operations, spurred the development of the software industry, and vaulted computing into the mainstream. -
The Sony CDP-101
The Sony CDP-101, also known as the world's first CD Player, was a device that found and read the data stored from the bumps on CDs and allowed to play audio like music when a CD was inserted inside. -
The Nintendo GameBoy
In the late 1980's a man by the name of Gunpei Yokoi created the Gameboy. The GameBoy was an 8-bit fourth-generation handheld gaming console. This allowed people, mostly younger kids, to play games anywhere they went while playing games like Tetris, Super Mario Land and more -
The World Wide Web
A British scientist named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. The World Wide Web allows people to access an information system on the internet, which allows documents to be connected to other documents called hypertext links, allowing people to search for information by moving from one document to another.