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The Television
The television was invented by Philo Farnsworth and Charles Francis Jenkins and it allowed America to watch news, movies, shows and much more, especially as time went on -
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The Evolution of Technology
This is a timeline containing technological advances all throughout history that have impacted American's today and are parts of our daily lives. The Evolution of technology caused us to be addicted to our technology -
Handheld Phone
Martin Cooper invented the first handheld phone to make communicating on the go a possibility -
Launch of Apple 1
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak made the "Apple 1" for sale to normal american citizens to use and not just the government or military
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Personal Computer
Steve Wozniak created the personal computer to give the common citizens access to the internet in their own homes. -
The World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee invented the world wide web to make searching for any information so much easier by displaying results from thousands of different sources -
Rise of the TV
At this point in history, 99% of all households in America had at least one television set in their house.
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Texting
AT&T introduced texting and was the first cellular company to do so and is now the most used mean of communication in the world
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Bluetooth
It was made in 1999 but integrated into phones and computers in the 20th century and is now in most of technology and plays a role in our daily lives -
Wikipedia
The first free-user generated encyclopedia and became a huge source useful for finding information on the internet -
Facebook
A simple easy to use, exclusive social media page that connects over 1.6 billion people around the world (built off of other sites and became popular