Technology at Home

E-Mail

Jan 1, 1989

I realize that e-mail messages had been sent for almost two decades by this point but they were almost exclusively sent by military organizations and computer science engineers. In 1989, CompuServe created the first public email service. E-mailed exploded in popularity in the 90's and now is a critical part of many professionals day to day communication. Photo courtesy of: http://www.kellogg.edu/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/email-logo.png

World Wide Web is Born

Dec 1, 1990

Before 1990, the internet wasn't incredibly user friendly. Tim Berners-Lee sought to create a system that could be extremely user friendly. His creation was the world wide web and it is the form of the internet that we still use today utilizing technology like HTTP, URL's, and HTML. Photo Source:http://www.megabyte.be/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/internet.jpg

Amazon is Created

Jul 4, 1994

Amazon has changed the way people purchase goods forever and its all about efficiency. People are able to sit at home and purchase almost anything and have it arrive at their home in, if they are Prime customers, two days. Amazon also hosts a large number of the worlds largest websites on their servers. Organizations like Adobe, Comcast, Netflix, Spotify and even NASA use Amazon. Photo Courtesy of: http://g-ec2.images-amazon.com/images/G/01/social/api-share/amazon_logo_500500._V323939215_.png

Google is Created

Sep 4, 1998

Google has fundamentally changed how we use the internet. Its search engine uses provided a new and more efficient search protocol to help users find exactly what they needed. Google has evolved into one of the largest tech companies in the world and has massively popular products like Andrioid, YouTube, and Nest. Photo Courtest of: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0-BzaWtxoAnsBjQ_wzUcKxyF07XE7v2Kkg1ogPVUdzmQpvaz118uHQEGU6BdtzJuzfo=h1264

Wi-Fi

Jul 1, 1999

The internet was an amazing technological advance but in order to reach its potential it had to cut the cord. Wi-Fi had been around before 1999 but it wasn't until then that it became popular for commercial and residential use when Apple incorporated it into their laptops. Wi-Fi paved the way for many of the technologies that we use daily. Photo Courtesy of: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/32/Wi-Fi_Logo.svg/1200px-Wi-Fi_Logo.svg.png

Facebook is Created

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook is one of the most revolutionary products on the market today and a true trendsetter in modern technology. It became one of the first ways to communicate with other people across the world in a social setting. Facebook allows users to keep up with old classmates and family members no matter where they happen to be. Photo courtest of: https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/0-BzaWtxoAnsBjQ_wzUcKxyF07XE7v2Kkg1ogPVUdzmQpvaz118uHQEGU6BdtzJuzfo=h1264

YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

YouTube is a video service that allows users to upload their videos quickly, easily, and from anywhere. Creating and uploading videos to a website used to be a difficult and time consuming process. YouTube erased the hassle and this ease of use allowed more people to upload more videos of more subjects. YouTube is useful to education because of its broad subject database. Teachers can find a video on almost any subject. Photo courtesty of:https://www.youtube.com/yts/img/yt_1200-vfl4C3T0K.png

iPhone

Jun 29, 2007

Up until as this time, the internet was a tool that was utilized at home, office, or with a bulky laptop. When the iPhone was created, the internet shrunk down to pocket sized tool and its uses are almost limitless. All of the products on this list now fit on one device which was unfathomable 30 years ago. Photo courtesy of: https://fossbytes.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/08/Logo-Apple-iPhone.jpg