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The first credit card
The first credit card was a Diners' Club cards invented by Ralph Schneiderin 1951. This was the first charge card to gain popularity and to be used widely. This card is what inspired American Express to invent a travelers card in 1958. -
First video tape recorder (VTR)
The video tape recorder was invented by Charles Ginsburg who was a researcher at Ampex Corporation. The VTR built company's like Blockbuster and which would popularize the rental model for media, well media is mainly digital, it could be said that the population of it by the VTR mad it what it is today. The VTR worked by live images from cameras and converting them into electrical impulses stored on magnetic tape. -
Optic fiber was invented.
Invented by Narinder Kapany, Optical fiber is used in long distant transition of data because of how quick it is compared traditional computer wiring. It sends this data at the speed of light throw glass or plastic fibers. -
First microchip
The First microchip was made by Jack Kilby in 1958. He was an electoral engineer at Texas Interments. The microchip is now used in almost everything to day, and also help bring the size of both phones and computers down to what they are today. -
First commercial modem
Made by Bell Laboratories
Before the world wide net or internet, people would use need a modem to send messages to each other. A modem is a a modulator-demodulator, which would take the input form the computer and put it in wave wavelength and send it throw phone lines and when you got the message it would decode it and display the massage.
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