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Radio
The first commercial radio station was KDKA in Pittsburgh, aired on November 2, 1920, broadcasting the returns of the Harding-Cox presidential election. -
Silent Movies
Silent movies were made from the 1890s through the late 1920s when they were a hit. Silent films are movies without synchronized sound and dialogue. -
Walkie Talkie
The walkie-talkie was first invented in 1937 by the Canadian Don Hings, with many similar devices developed by other inventors around the same time. -
Electric Guitar
On August 10, 1937, the Electro String Corporation was awarded the first-ever electric guitar patent. The instrument was invented by G.D. Beauchamp and was known as the Rickenbacker Frying Pan. -
Comic Books
Comic books were first known in 1837 but became successful in the 1940s because they provided cheap and exciting entertainment during the Golden Age. -
Electronic Computers
It was generally believed that the first electronic digital computers were the Colossus, built in England in 1943, and the ENIAC, built in the United States in 1945. -
UNIVAC
(Universal Automatic Computer I) was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for business applications produced in the United States. -
Colored Television
John Logie Baird invented the coloured tv system. The first color TV based on a system designed by RCA began commercial broadcasting on December 17, 1953. -
Audio Cassette
The compact cassette, commonly known as a cassette tape, is an analog media format developed in 1962 by the Dutch inventor and engineer, Lou Ottens, for the Philips Company. -
Computer Mouse
SRI International's Douglas Engelbart was exploring the interactions between humans and computers. Bill English, then the chief engineer at SRI, built the first computer mouse prototype in 1964. -
Email
Ray Tomlinson, of BBN, sent the first message across the network in 1971, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the users' names and the user's machines. -
Digital Camera
Steve Sasson invented the first self-contained digital camera for Eastman Kodak Co, in 1975. This changed the future of photography and transformed the industry. -
Samsung Phones
The SGH-100 was Samsumg’s very first mobile phone. It was released in Korea in 1988. It was also known as the “handphone.” -
World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989 while working at CERN. The Web was originally developed to meet a demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in global institutions. -
DVD's
The digital versatile disc or digital vieo dist was invented and developed in 1995 and released in November 1996 in Japan. -
Google
Google was created by Larry Page and Sergey Brin on September 4, 1998, in CA, USA. It later became the largest, most used search engine of all time. -
Netflix
Netflix was founded in 1997 by Reed Hastings and Marc Randolph as a DVD-by-mail service. The company later expanded to streaming and now has millions of subscribers. Netflix's model of subsections expanded in 2000 when they started their Unlimited Movie Rental programme with a fee of $19.95/mo allowing customers to receive 4 DVDs at a time. -
iPhones
Apple Computer Company was founded on April 1, 1976, by Steve Jobs and Ronald Wayne as a partnership. The first line of smartphones developed by Apple had their first generation launched by Steve Jobs on January 9, 2007. -
Instagram
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social media application that was launched in 2010 by Kevin Systrom. The prototype of Instagram was a web app called Burbn, which was inspired by Systrom's love of fine whiskeys and bourbons. -
Disney Plus
The global streaming service was created and owned by The Walt Disney Company's Streaming and Entertainment units. It was launched on November 12, 2019. It was launched for the US and Canada and then internally expanded after November 2019. -
BeReal
The app was developed by Alexis Barreyat, a former employee at GoPro, and Kévin Perreau, a graduate of '42 in Paris. Initially released in 2020, it first gained widespread popularity in early 2022. -
ChatGPT
ChatGPT was created by OpenAI, an AI research company. It started as a nonprofit company in 2015 but became for-profit in 2019. OpenAI released ChatGPT as a free “research preview” in November 2022.