Technology Advancements

First digital camera

Dec 2, 1975

Created in December 1975 by an engineer at Eastman Kodak named Steve Sasson, now regarded as the inventor of the digital camera. Made by Kodak

Timespan

Period: Jan 1, 1980 to Feb 2, 2017

Atari

Feb 1, 1980

https://www.atari.com/history/1972-1984-0
The original Atari, Inc. founded in 1972 by Nolan Bushnell and Ted Dabney. The company's products, such as Pong and the Atari 2600, helped define the electronic entertainment industry from the 1970s to the mid-1980s.

Online Learning

Jan 2, 1984

https://www.petersons.com/college-search/online-education-history.aspx#/sweeps-modal
Established with the mission of helping colleges and universities expand the availability of online courses, EUN offered its first online course in 1986 for use with DOS and Commodore 64 computers. However, this was before the invention of the World Wide Web, and students had to use proprietary software and communicate over telephone lines.

Wifi was invented

Jan 1, 1991

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi
In 1991, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems.

World Wide Web

Aug 23, 1991

http://info.cern.ch/
The NeXT computer used by Tim Berners-Lee in 1990 to create the world's first website. Berners-Lee's site went live in 1991, and was accessed by a decidedly small audience of fellow CERN researchers. It wasn't until 1993, when web browser Mosaic was released, that the Web took off, as Wired explained last year.

Netflix was invented

Aug 29, 1997

https://www.netflix,com
Netflix was founded on August 29, 1997, in Scotts Valley, California, by Marc Randolph and Reed Hastings, both former employees at Pure Software.

Google was founded

Sep 4, 1998

https://www.google.com
Google was invented by Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Google was named after a googol - the name for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros - found in the book Mathematics and the Imagination by Edward Kasner and James Newman.

Flash drive was invented

May 5, 1999

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/USB_flash_drive
While the Israeli company M-Systems filed the first patent in April of that year, their product involved a USB cable and a memory unit, whereas Shimon Shmueli's September patent was for a USB memory stick.

First tablet

Jul 18, 2002

http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-visual-proof-of-just-how-badly-microsoft-blew-it-with-tablets-2013-5
A full decade before Jobs launched the iPad in 2010, Bill Gates launched Microsoft's touch input tablet computer.Two years later, Gates showed up with an improved model, a color tablet. It used the Windows XP Tablet operating system.

Youtube was invented

Feb 14, 2005

https://www.youtube.com
YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, who were all early employees of PayPal. Hurley had studied design at Indiana University of Pennsylvania, and Chen and Karim studied computer science together at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Twitter was Invented

Mar 1, 2006

https://www.twitter.com
Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July, whereby the service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day.

The Iphone was invented

Jan 9, 2009

http://www.apple.com
On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention. Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released later that year. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released.