Important people in Technology

  • Thomas Edison

    Thomas Edison
    In 1868, Thomas Edison came up with his first patented invention--An electrical voice recorder
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    Important people inTechnology

  • Douglas Engelbart

    Douglas Engelbart
    He created the computer mouse, and developed the basic graphical user interface (GUI), and groupware.
  • Ken Thompson

    Ken Thompson
    In 1969, Thompson and colleague Dennis Ritchie created the UNIX operating system at Bell Telephone Laboratories. UNIX was a scaled-down version of the MIT MULTICS operating system, one meant to run on the new smaller minicomputers becoming available at the end of the 1960s.
  • Norman Abramson

    Norman Abramson
    The resulting radio network technology his team developed was deployed as ALOHAnet in 1971, based on the dual meaning of the Hawaiian word "aloha".
  • Jack Nilles

    Jack Nilles
    Jack is called the "father of telecommuting"
  • Robert Metcalfe

    Robert Metcalfe
    In 1973, Robert invented Ethernet.
  • Marty Cooper

    Marty Cooper
    In 1973, Marty Cooper created the first handheld cellular phone.
  • Geral A. Lawson

    Geral A. Lawson
    In 1976, Gerald Lawson created the first cartridge-based video game system, the Fairchild Channel F.
  • Nathaniel Borenstein

    Nathaniel Borenstein
    In1980, Nathaniel created the MIME protocol
  • Dr.Fujio Masuoka

    Dr.Fujio Masuoka
    In 1984, Fujio Masuoka invented flash memory
  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee
    In 1989, Tim invented the World Wide Web, he also created the HTML system
  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee
    Tim Berners-Lee and his colleague Robert Cailliau developed the world's first web client (a browser/editor), created the HyperText Markup Language (HTML)
  • Tim Berners-Lee

    Tim Berners-Lee
    In March 1991, Tim release the first web browser