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ARPANET - First Network
The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) Became the technical foundation of the Internet. Created by the US Government.
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Apple I - Apple's First Computer
Apple Computer 1 was released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. The Apple I was Apple's first product, It was demonstrated in July 1976 at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California.
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Osborne 1
The first commercially successful portable microcomputer. It weighed 25 pounds and it cost $1,795 dollars in '81, equivalent to $4,672 today.
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Motorola DynaTAC
The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X commercial portable cellular phone received approval from the U.S. FCC on September 21, 1983. A full charge took roughly 10 hours, and it offered 30 minutes of talk time. It also offered an LED display for dialing or recall of one of 30 phone numbers. It was priced at $3,995 in 1984, its commercial release year, worth a modern-day price of nearly 10 grand. It was released for public use in 1984
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Bluetooth
Wireless technology for swapping and transferring data from device to device. Development of Bluetooth started in 1989. It was released to the public in 1999.
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Windows 3.0
The third installment of Microsoft Windows. It was a successful rival to Apple Macintosh and Commodore Amiga. It was followed by Windows 3.1. The Windows 3.0 succeeds Windows 2.1x and includes a revamped UI as well as technical improvements to make better use of the memory management capabilities of Intel's current processors.
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World Wide Web
WWW (World Wide Web) is an information space where documents and other web sources are identified by URLs. It was invented by scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989.
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IBM Simon - First Smartphone
Released by IBM in 1994. It is the world's first ever smartphone. It sold 50,000 units. -
Palm Pilot (PDA)
Handheld tablet made by Palm Computing in 1996. It ran Palm OS as well, it was released in 1996 and was discontinued in 2009
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PlayStation 2
Sony's successor to the PlayStation that was released in 2000. It sold over 155,000,000 consoles from it's release to 2011, making it the best-selling video game consoles in history.
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Xbox
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Mini Mac
Mini Mac, a small form factor computer, it was announced in 2005 along side the iPod Nano. It is an entry-level computer intended for budget minded customers.
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Nintendo Wii
The seventh-generation console of Nintendo. You could use a wireless controller to control things on the screen with a motion sensor, it also had internet access. -
Apple iPhone 7
"This is 7." The first iPhone without an earphone jack. It has a 64-bit processor and it's starting operating system is iOS 10. It is the predecessor to the iPhone 6S.
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Windows 1.0
Microsoft's first computer. It could not support the function of windows overlapping each other and did not have sophisticated keyboard shortcuts.
[Wikipedia] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0
