advancing technology

Wi-Fi

Aug 11, 1942

Wi Fi Wi-Fi is the name of a popular wireless networking technology that uses radio waves to provide wireless high-speed Internet and network connections.

Atari

Jun 28, 1972

Atari games Originally named the Atari VCS (Video Computer Systems), the company sold over thirty million consoles alone. It was the third programmable console to ever be produced – it pales in comparison to the amount that is out there now.

Pong

Nov 19, 1972

Pong being played Pong was the invention of Nolan Bushnell, a young engineer who introduced video table tennis to arcades in 1972. Simple and addictive, Pong launched the craze for home video games.

Smartphone

Mar 9, 1993

Smartphones The first smartphones came onto the market in the late 1990s, offering features such as e-mail communication, text-based web-browsing, QUERTY keyboards and in-built cameras.

Bluetooth

Mar 5, 1994

Bluetooth Bluetooth technology was invented by Sven Matisson and Jaap Haartsen at the Swedish telecom company Ericsson in 1994.

Ebay

Sep 3, 1995

ebay When it was first created, eBay wasn’t called eBay, but rather AuctionWeb. The original look for the site was very similar to Craigslist today.

Netflix

Apr 7, 1997

Netflix Ad Fifteen years ago Netflix was mainly DVDs.

Google

Sep 4, 1998

GOOGLE Google serves near-instant search results by analyzing millions of pages in a fraction of a second.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook Facebook launched on February 4, 2004 and became the juggernaut of social media.

YouTube

Feb 4, 2005

YouTube YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steven Chen, and Jawed Karim, former employees of PayPal, an online commerce website. They registered the domain name in February 2005. It was officially launched in December of that year.