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Technology timeline
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the link i used for all of them
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The Radio
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi first developed the idea of a radio, or wireless telegraph, in the 1890s. His ideas took shape in 1895 when he sent a wireless Morse Code message to a source more than a kilometer away.
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Push Button Telephone
Bell Telephone introduces the push button telephone November 18, 1963.On December 7, 1963 during an Army-Navy football game on CBS the first instant replay is shown on TV. -
IBM
IBM introduces its System/360, the first of its computers to use interchangeable software and peripheral equipment.
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1st Apple Computer
Steve Wozniak designs the first Apple, the Apple I computer in 1976, later Wozniak and Steve Jobs co-found Apple Computers on April Fool’s day.
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CompuServe
Hayes markets its first modem that becomes the industry standard for modems. CompuServe becomes the first commercial online service offering dial-up connection to anyone September 24, 1979.First cellular phone communication network started in Japan -
Commodore VIC-20
Commodore VIC-20 hits the market — the first color computer for less than US$300 — and sells more than 1 million units. The monitor was a TV set, the storage was a cassette tape, and the “killer apps” were video games. IBM releases the first personal computer. First “laptop” computers are sold to public. Developed the Osborne, it weighed 24½-pounds and had a 5" display. MS-DOS 1.0 was released August, 1981. -
The Morris worm
IBM and Sears joint “videotext” venture starts operation under the PRODIGY name. The Internet’s first self-replicating worm “The Morris worm” with 99 lines of code, crashed about 10 percent of the world’s internet-connected computers in 24 hours.
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World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee invents hypertext – the principal idea that evolves into the World Wide Web. The Hubble space telescope is launched.
The world’s first webcam goes online at Cambridge University to remotely monitor the coffee pot in the Trojan Room of the Computer Science Department. -
Lynx
1993 At the start of 1993, the web had a total of 130 sites. Lynx is launched: a texted-based browser that couldn't display any graphic content. America Online and Delphi began to connect their proprietary email systems to the Internet, beginning the large-scale adoption of internet email as a global standard. Apple computer introduces the first PDA (personal digital assistant) called the Newton. -
SPAM
Laurence Canter sent the first spam e-mail — “Green Card Lottery 1994 May be the Last One!! Sign up now!!” — creating a huge uproar in the internet community. As a result, Canter lost his job, and his Internet service provider cancelled his subscription. To keep track of Web sites of interest to them, two Stanford students created “Jerry's Guide to the World Wide Web” which soon was renamed Yahoo!
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Amazon and eBay
The number of U.S. homes with one or more personal computers increases by 16% in 1995 to about 38 million households, up from 33 million in 1994 and 25 million in 1993. Broadcast.com becomes one of the world's first online radio stations. Amazon and eBay are launched. -
Bluetooth
Several pundits predict total a computer system collapse because of the Y2K bug (the inability of older computers to distinguish between the year 1900 and the year 2000). Almost no problems are encountered in the New Year, but fears lead to major system upgrades throughout the global corporate environment. Bluetooth 1.0 is launched. Napster, a peer-to-peer file sharing service was launched, with major disruption to the music industry. -
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VR headets
Many companies are developing their own VR headsets, including HTC, Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Sony, and Samsung.
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AI
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning. -
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