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Interesting facts about communication technologies

By VUHD1303

  • 8mm film camera

    8mm film camera
    Kodak released the first 8mm film camera priced at 34.50USD

  • Telephone

    Telephone
    AT&T introduced the first phone to combine a ringer and handset.

  • Microcassette voice recorder

    Microcassette voice recorder
    Olympus presented the first microcassete voice recorder in 1969 and uses the same width of magnet tape as compact cassettes but in a much smaller size.

  • Dot matrix printer

    Dot matrix printer
    The first dot matrix printer was produced by Digital Equipment Corporation and printed 80 columns of uppercase-only 5×7 dot matrix characters across a unique-sized paper.

  • Floppy disk

    Floppy disk
    The earliest floppy disks were i20cm in diameter and invented by IBM.

  • Cable Modem

    In the mid 1980s, most Internet access used modems and analog telephone lines.

  • CD-Rom

    CD-Rom
    It was created by Sony and Philips in 1986, the name stands for "Compact Disc Read-Only Memory".

  • VHS Remote (jog dial)

    VHS Remote (jog dial)
    Appeared in the 90s and is considered as the first idea of turnatables for Djs.

  • Wireless Network Card

    Wireless Network Card
    It was first invented for cashier system.