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Personal Computer
In 1975, Ed Roberts coined the term "personal computer" when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered by many to be the KENBAK-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971.http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/297 -
First Mobile Phone
On April 3, 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs his rival. The prototype handheld phone used by Dr. Cooper weighed 1.1 kg and measured 23 cm long, 13 cm deep and 4.45 cm wide. http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/60at60/2015/8/1973-first-mobile-phone-call-392969 -
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Sony Betacam
After its introduction in 1981, Sony's Betacam became the standard professional field camera for location video work. Its adoption on an international scale was no small accomplishment given the brutal competition that characterized the "format wars" in television equipment manufacturing--a high-stakes, capital intensive struggle that produced scores of competing and incompatible high-end recording formats in less than a decade. http://www.museum.tv/eotv/betacam.htm -
First CD Player
Sony CDP-101: The World's First CD Player. On October 1, 1982, Sony released the first ever CD player in Japan http://www.pcworld.com/article/2010810/the-cd-player-turns-30.html -
Nintendo Entertainment System
The Nintendo Entertainment System (commonly abbreviated as NES) is an 8-bit home video game console.The best-selling gaming console of its time, the NES helped revitalize the US video game industry following the video game crash of 1983. With the NES, Nintendo introduced a now-standard business model of licensing third-party developers, authorizing them to produce and distribute titles for Nintendo's platform. http://www.nintendo.com/nes-classic/ -
Microsoft Windows
Windows 1.0 was released on November 20, 1985, as the first version of the Microsoft Windows line. It runs as a graphical, 16-bit multi-tasking shell on top of an existing MS-DOS installation. It provides an environment which can run graphical programs designed for Windows, as well as existing MS-DOS software.https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Microsoft_Windows -
Powerpoint
Microsoft PowerPoint. Microsoft PowerPoint, virtual presentation software developed by Robert Gaskins and Dennis Austin for the American computer software company Forethought, Inc. The program, initially named Presenter, was released for the Apple Macintosh in 1987 https://www.britannica.com/technology/Microsoft-PowerPoint -
Nintendo Game Boy
The Game Boy is an 8-bit handheld video game device with interchangeable cartridges developed and manufactured by Nintendo, which was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989 , in North America on July 31, 1989 and in Europe on September 28, 1990 http://venturebeat.com/2014/04/21/25-years-of-the-game-boy-a-timeline-of-the-systems-accessories-and-games/ -
E-mail
Sent by computer engineer Ray Tomlinson in 1971, the email was simply a test message to himself. The email was sent from one computer to another computer sitting right beside it in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but it traveled via ARPANET, a network of computers that was the precursor to the Internet. Email was commonly used by 1993. https://www.cs.umd.edu/class/spring2002/cmsc434-0101/MUIseum/applications/firstemail.html -
JPEG
JPEG is a commonly used method of lossy compression for digital images, particularly for those images produced by digital photography. The degree of compression can be adjusted, allowing a selectable tradeoff between storage size and image quality. JPEG typically achieves 10:1 compression with little perceptible loss in image quality. http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2012/07/10/this-is-first-photograph-ever-posted-on-internet.html -
Google
The first Google Doodle was an out-of-office message. The day was August 30, 1998 -- nearly two years after Larry Page and Sergey Brin had built a search engine in a Stanford dorm room, and less than a week before Google would officially incorporate as a company. https://www.google.com/about/company/history/ -
Facebook
The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook
