Rani's Technology Timeline

Birth

Sep 5, 1977

Voyager 1 was launched in 1977.

Kindergarten

Sep 10, 1982

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

Sep 11, 1983

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

Second Grade

Sep 11, 1984

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

Sep 11, 1989

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

Eight Grade

Dec 20, 1990

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

Sep 11, 1995

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

Jan 11, 1996

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

Oct 23, 2001

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

Education Major

Jan 11, 2002

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

Apr 3, 2010

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;