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The Internet
Though the basic development of the World Wide Web started in 1957, it wasn't up for public use until 1992. In the beginning the only primary use for the internet was for university-based science labs and the US government. -
Smart Pill
Jerome Schentag, professor of pharmaceutic science at the University of Buffalo, invented the "smart pill". The smart pill is actually computer controlled digestible capsule physicians use to monitor pressure, pH, and temperature through the patients GI tract (gastrointestinal tract/digestive tract). -
Text Messaging
The first text message was sent by a Canadian engineer and since then the world hasn't been able to stop. In 1993 text messages were only used to alert a person they had a voicemail. By 1995, the average person only sent 4 text a month. But in 2010 the world sent over 6.1 trillion messages. -
Global Positioning System
During the Cold War the GPS was used for military intelligence against the Soviet Union. The GPS or Global Positioning System is a network of satellites that orbit the earth at fixed points above the planet. Today's GPS network is used for dozens of navigation application, route finding for drivers, climate studies, and map-making. -
HIV Protease Inhibitor
Invented for the companies Hoffman-La Roche Inc., Abbott Lab, and Merck Co., the HIV protease inhibitors were used in the treatments of patients battling AIDs. The drug works to stop the development of new HIV /AIDs cells. Currently there are only 5 inhibitors approved by the FDA. -
MP3 Player
The first MP3 was invented by MPMAN in 1998. The device had 32MB of internal memory which would only hold about 10-20 songs. Today the average MP3 player holds about 100,000 songs, WiFi, texting, and web service. -
The first cellphone
The brick cellphone manafactured by motorola in from 1984 and went into massproduction by 1998 -
Google
Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Their mission was "to organize the worlds information and make it universally accessible and useful". When Google was first developed is was based in a garage with one employee, Craig Silverstein. Today's Google is the number one search engine while bringing in 14.5 billion dollars as of Dec. 2014. -
International Human Genome Project
This 13 year project was coordinated by the US Department of Energy and the National Institute of Health to find and sequence all DNA. Its initial mission was met in 2003.
