Advances in 21st Century Technology

The First Computer

Sep 19, 1822

Charles Babbage started creating the first computing device which later would become what we have today.

The First Phone

Mar 7, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell invented the first telephone on this day which eventually evolved into the cell phones we use today.

Television

Apr 12, 1878

In England in 1878, John Loggie Baird, a Scottish amateur scientist, successfully transmitted the first TV picture.

The First Disk File

Feb 17, 1956

The IBM 350 Disk File, invented by Reynold Johnson, was introduced in 1956 with the IBM 305 RAMAC computer.

Gaming Devices

Jan 11, 1967

The "Brown Box" was the first console that worked on standard television. Ralph Baer and his coworkers created this console together in 1967.

Gaming

Feb 11, 1975

Pong was invented

Yahoo

Jan 20, 1994

Yahoo was founded in 1994. It was created by Tim Berners-Lee.

Bluetooth

Feb 10, 1994

A group of engineers at Ericsson, a swedish company, invented a wireless communication technology that would later be called bluetooth.One of the engineers being, Dr. Jaap Haartsen, was nominated for the inventor of the year award in 21012.

Amazon

Jul 5, 1994

July 5, 1994 is when amazon was founded by Jeff Bezos.

EBay

Sep 3, 1995

On this day EBay was founded by Pierre Omidyar.

Netflix

Oct 29, 1997

Netflix was created by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph. Netflix was founded in 1997.

Google

Sep 4, 1998

Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin and founded in 1998.

Gaming

Mar 4, 2000

The Play Station 2 is released and functions not only as a way to play video games but watch DVDs as well.

The Tablet

Dec 14, 2000

Bill Gates introduced his product "Tablet PC" in 2000.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook was invented by Harvard computer science student Mark Zuckerberg , along with classmates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

Gaming

Nov 21, 2004

The Nintendo DS was released and was a big ht for a handheld gaming device.

Gaming

Dec 12, 2004

The Playstation Portable is released. Added to gmaing there are PC- handheld devices.

Youtube

Feb 14, 2005

Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created youtube.

Cloud

Aug 9, 2006

First used when CEO Eric Schmidt introduced the term to an industry conference.

Hulu

Mar 4, 2007

Hulu was founded by Beth Comstock in 2007.