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The First Computer
The first computer was called The Difference Machine, it was invented by Charles Babbage.His eldest son Henry Babbage helped him to create the computer. -
The First Headphones
Headphones originated from the earpiece, and were the only way to listen to electrical audio signals before amplifiers were developed. The first truly successful set was developed in 1910 by Nathaniel Baldwin, who made them by hand in his kitchen and sold them to the United States Navy. -
Hewlett Packard founded
Hewlett Packard founded
Hewlett-Packard is founded. David Packard and Bill Hewlett found Hewlett-Packard in a Palo Alto, California garage.
Their first product was the HP 200A Audio Oscillator, which rapidly becomes a popular piece of test equipment for engineers. Walt Disney ordered eight of the 200B model to use as sound effects generators for the 1940 movie "Fantasia". -
Project whirlwind
Project Whirlwind begins. During World War II, the U.S. Navy approached the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) about building a flight simulator to train bomber crews. The team first built a large analog computer, but found it inaccurate and inflexible. After designers saw a demonstration of the ENIAC computer, they decided on building a digital computer. -
first social network.
Social networking was born one day in 1971, when the first email was sent. The two computers were sitting right next to each other. The message said “qwertyuiop’. -
The first social networking site
1978 Two Chicago computer hobbyists invented the bulletin board system (BBS) to inform friends of meetings, make announcements and share information through postings. It was the rudimentary beginning of a small virtual community. Trolling and flame wars began. -
The Prodigy online service
The Prodigy online service was introduced. Later, it grew to become the second-largest online service provider in 1990, with 465,000 subscribers compared with CompuServe's 600,000. In 1994, Prodigy pioneered sales of dial-up connections to the World Wide Web and hosting services for Web publishers. Subsequently, it was resold repeatedly and now is part of AT&T. -
Gps and SatNavs
The first sat nav was made in 1986 by a man call john smith. An automotive navigation system is a satellite navigation system designed for use in automobiles. It typically uses a GPS navigation device to acquire position data to locate the user on a road in the unit's map database. Using the road database, the unit can give directions to other locations along roads also in its database. -
when wifi was invented
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The First Online Game
Diablo is an action role-playing hack and slash video game developed by Blizzard North and released by Blizzard Entertainment on December 31, 1996.[2] Set in the fictional Kingdom of Khanduras, located in the world of Sanctuary, Diablo has the player take control of a lone hero battling to rid the world of Diablo, the Lord of Terror. Beneath the town of Tristram, the player journeys through sixteen dungeon levels, ultimately entering Hell itself in order to face Diablo. An expansion pack, enti -
Friends Reunited
Friends Reunited, remembered as the first online social network to achieve prominence, was founded in Great Britain to relocate past school pals. -
How ICT changed travel
ICT has changed travel by letting us buy train ticketts online, and plane tickets, and prettymuch anything. if you look back 20 years you couldnt even go on to facebook and post about how bad your life is because you broke up with your boyfreind, now you can do what ever you want -
Facebook
Facebook is one of the main social network sites.In March 2012, Facebook announced App Center, a store selling applications that operate via the site. The store will be available to iPhone, Android and mobile web users. In July 2012, Facebook added a same-sex marriage icon to its timeline feature. On August 23, 2012, Facebook released an update to its iOS app (version 5.0), which changed how data was collected and displayed to make it faster. On January 15, 2013, Facebook announced Graph Sea -
Twitter
The company experienced rapid growth. It had 400,000 tweets posted per quarter in 2007. This grew to 100 million tweets posted per quarter in 2008. In February 2010, Twitter users were sending 50 million tweets per day. By March 2010, the company recorded over 70,000 registered applications. As of June 2010, about 65 million tweets were posted each day, equaling about 750 tweets sent each second, according to Twitter. -
Many places to talk
Social media were accessible from virtually anywhere and had become an integral part of our daily lives with more than 550 million people on Facebook, 65 million tweets sent through Twitter each day, and 2 billion video views every day on YouTube. LinkedIn has 90 million professional users. Social media commerce was on the rise along with mobile social media via smartphones and tablet computers. Public sharing of so much personal information via social media sites raised concern over privacy -
And now its popular
Some 85% of the 7.1 billion people in the world have access to the Internet. For instance, China's Internet population reaches 632 million. For the first time, more new Internet users ventured online with a mobile device – smartphone or tablet – than with a PC. Many countries around the globe now are heavily engaged with social media including the United States, Canada, the U.K., Russia, the Netherlands, Norway, Finland, Denmark, Sweden, Turkey, Israel, The Philippines, India, China,
