Rani's Technology Timeline

By taresama

  • Birth

    Birth
    Voyager 1 was launched in 1977.

  • Kindergarten

    Kindergarten
    Floppy Disk- The floppy disk drive (FDD) was the primary means of adding data to a computer until the CD-ROM drive became popular.

  • First Grade

    First Grade
    Nintendo Entertainment System (NES)- The first gaming system that my family owned. We spent countless hours playing metroid.

  • Second Grade

    Second Grade
    The Mouse-Mice first broke onto the public stage with the introduction of the Apple Macintosh in 1984, and since then they have helped to completely redefine the way we use computers.

  • Seventh Grade

    Seventh Grade
    Game Boy- In 1989, Nintendo released the Game Boy, which became the first handheld console to sell in large numbers.

  • Eight Grade

    Eight Grade
    World Wide Web- The World Wide Web has been central to the development of the Information Age and is the primary tool billions of people use to interact on the Internet.[4][5][6] Web pages are primarily text documents formatted and annotated with Hypertext Markup Language (HTML).

  • Graduation

    Graduation
    Global Positioning System- The Global Positioning System (GPS), also known as Navstar GPS[1][2][3] or simply Navstar,[4] is a global navigation satellite system (GNSS) that provides geolocation and time information to a GPS receiver in all weather conditions, anywhere on or near the Earth where there is an unobstructed line of sight to four or more GPS satellites.[5]

  • College- Undergraduate

    College- Undergraduate
    Google- Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products that include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.

  • Linguistic Major

    Linguistic Major
    iPod — On October 23, 2001 Apple Computers publicly announced their portable music digital player, the iPod, created under project codename Dulcimer.

  • Education Major

    Education Major
    Camera Phones — Introduced to the North American marketplace in 2002, an estimated 80 million camera phones were sold in 2003, — 6 million in the U.S. alone. By 2003 more camera phones were sold worldwide than stand-alone digital cameras. At the end of 2008, the world-installed base of camera phones was 1.9 billion.

  • Teacher

    Teacher
    iPAD- The iPad (/ˈaɪpæd/ EYE-pad) is an iOS-based line of tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first iPad was released on April 3, 2010;