Technology Advancements

The Advancement of Technology through the Decades

Period: Jan 1, 1980 to Jan 31, 2017

From 1980 to 2017 technology has never stopped advancing.

The Nintendo Entertainment System

Jul 15, 1983

This grey box is the thing that revitalized the Video Game crash in 1983. The NES was the highest selling video game console of its time. Setting business examples for years to come, Nintendo licensed 3rd Party developers to make games for the NES.

The Motorola DynaTAC 8000X

Sep 21, 1983

The DynaTAC was the first commercially available mobile phone. It fully charged in 10 hours and had 30 minutes of talk time. Anyone could buy it for a small price of $3,995 which is about $10,000 in modern money

The Macintosh

Jan 22, 1984

In January of 1984, Apple Inc. released the Macintosh, the first personal computer without a programming language at all. This device put Apple on the map, while its initial sales were strong, its follow up sales were weak.

Microsoft Windows

Nov 20, 1985

In 1985, the already prosperous company, Microsoft, released Windows a graphical extension for MS-DOS. This would make Microsoft rise in stocks, making an estimated 4 billionaires and about 12,000 millionaires in the company.

America Online

Feb 28, 1991

America Online or simply AOL, is the first internet provider in 1991. For a subscription fee people could be connected to the internet from their computers.

The Pioneer of the FPS Genre

Dec 10, 1993

This is the Grand-daddy of all first person shooter games, Doom, developed by iD Software in 1993 is ranked as one of the best video games of all time and was to most installed software on Microsoft computers.

5th Generation Consoles

Jan 31, 1994

With the Sony Playstation, the N64, and more advanced computers, video games were making the jump from 2D to 3D.

Digital Video Disc

Feb 1, 1995

Made by Japan in 1995 but introduced in America in 1997, the DVD is disc which stored a lot more data than a floppy disc or a cassette tape. Every country was using them so by the 2000s cassette tapes and floppy disc became obsolete.

Dolly the Sheep

Jul 5, 1996

The first cloned mammal to ever exist, Dolly the sheep had 3 mothers to make the cloning happen, one to provide the egg, another to get DNA from, and one to carry the embryo.

YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube was created in 2005 as a platform for sharing videos with people around Internet. The first video on YouTube was a guy at the zoo talking about a giraffe.

The iPhone

Jun 29, 2007

The iPhone was a phone produced by Apple, it was one of the first multi-touchscreen phones. It became very popular all over the world and even in the 7th generation its one of the most popular phones.

The Nintendo Switch

Mar 3, 2017

In 2014 Nintendo was suffering from the lack of sales from the Wii U console. To revitalize their business so they didn't become extinct, they wanted to create a new way to play and have a larger impact than the Wii U. Revealed in October of 2016, the Nintendo Switch took the world by storm instantly becoming one of the most popular consoles in history.