Technology Through Time

By molly25

  • First Dinners credit card

    About four years after that, Frank McNamara and Ralph Schneider issued the first Diners Club card in 1950. These cards were made of cardboard and could be used in participating restaurants.

  • First Computer Mouse

    First Computer Mouse
    Development of the mouse began in the early 1960s by SRI's Douglas Engelbart, while he was exploring the interactions between humans and computers. Bill English, then the chief engineer at SRI, built the first computer mouse prototype in 1964. Designs with multiple buttons soon followed.

  • Video game console

    Video game console
    Ralph Baer, a German immigrant and inventor, created the very first home video game console in the late '60s. It was simply called the "Brown Box," and it later came to be known as the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972 after he licensed out the design.

  • MTV

    MTV
    Robert W. Pittman would be the guy who would be at the forefront of creating MTV. He had this idea in the back of his head when he used to host a 15-minute show called “Album Tracks” in New York on WNB-TV in the late '70s.

  • The Nokia 1011

    The Nokia 1011
    The Nokia 1011 (NHE-2X5, NHE-2XN) is the first mass-produced GSM phone. It was sold also as Mobira Cityman 2000. The typenumber refers to the launch date, 10 November 1992. The black handset measured 195 x 60 x 45 mm and featured a monochrome LCD and an extendable antenna.

  • Nintendo 64

    Nintendo 64
    The Nintendo 64 was first sold in North America on September 26, 1996, though having been advertised for the 29th.

  • First Camera Phone

    First Camera Phone
    A camera phone is a mobile phone which is able to capture photographs and often record video using one or more built-in digital cameras. It can also send the resulting image over the telephone function. The first commercial camera phone was the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, released in Japan in May 1999.

  • USB

    USB
    Though the initial invention remains disputable, it wasn't until late in 2000 that the first USB flash drive was sold in the U.S. by I.B.M. This drive, originally called the DiskOnKey, held just eight megabytes.

  • first Iphone

    first Iphone
    The iPhone is the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. After years of rumors and speculation, it was officially announced in January 2007, and was released in the United States in June. Development of the iPhone as a product began in 2005 and continued in complete secrecy until its public unveiling.

  • First apple store in Australia

    First apple store in Australia
    Australia's first Apple Store opened on George St, Sydney, on 19 June, 2008. Since then more than 14 million customers have walked through its doors.