Technology

By JMM1990

  • Hubble Space Telescope

    Hubble Space Telescope
    Launched in April 1990, this telescope helped us looked even further into the reaches of space. The creation of the telescope stemmed from ideas by Edward Hubble and then created by a team of engineers working for NASA

  • First Webcam

    First Webcam
    The worlds first webcam was invented by Dr. Quentin Stafford-Fraser and Paul Jardetzky (of Cambridge University), to keep an eye on on the coffee pot in their break room to avoid wasted travels if the pot was empty

  • Java

    Java
    This programming language was created by James Gosling in order to make for programming a lot easier. It was designed to be easy to use and understand and allowed the seamless and invisible distribution of software across the internet,

  • Google

    Google
    Started as a research project at Stanford. The original name for it was called "Backrub". This helped information instantly retrievable no matter where it was housed.

  • The first Blackberry

    The first Blackberry
    Founded by Doug Fregin and Mike Lazaridis. The first Blackberry was a pager capable of email. This was the first of many of popular Blackberry cell/smart phones.