Technology Timeline

By Brad4
  • Pong

    Pong
    In September 1966 Ralph Baer invented the first video game called pong. The game was designed in 1947.Pong (marketed as PONG) is one of the earliest arcade video games; it is a tennis sports game featuring simple two-dimensional graphics
  • Email

    Email
    Invented Ray Tomlinson. Email is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients
  • Personal Computer

    Personal Computer
    Invented by Steve Wozniak. A personal computer (PC) is a general-purpose computer, whose size, capabilities, and original sale price makes it useful for individuals, and which is intended to be operated directly by an end-user with no intervening computer operator
  • Camcorder

    Camcorder
    Invented by Sony. A camcorder (formally a video camera recorder) is an electronic device that combines a video camera and a video recorder into one unit; typically for out-of-studio consumer video recording.
  • Apple Macintosh

    Apple Macintosh
    The Macintosh (/ˈmækɨntɒʃ/ MAK-in-tosh),[1] marketed as Mac, is a line of personal computers (PCs).Apple Inc.'s then-chairman Steve Jobs introduced the first Macintosh on January 24, 1984.
  • Digital Cellular Phone

    Digital Cellular Phone
    Invented by Dr. Martin Cooper. A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone, and a hand phone) is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    Invented by Tim Berners-Lee. World Wide Webis a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed via the Internet. With a web browser, one can view web pages that may contain text, images, videos, and other multimedia, and navigate between them via hyperlinks.
  • DVD (Digital Video Disk)

    DVD (Digital Video Disk)
    Invented by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Panasomic. DVD, also known as Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc, is an optical disc storage media format, and was invented and developed by Philips, Sony, Toshiba, and Time Warner
  • High-Definition Television

    High-Definition Television
    Invented by Panasomic. High-definition television (HDTV) provides a resolution that is substantially higher than that of standard-definition television.
  • Digital Satellite Radio

    Digital Satellite Radio
    Invented by Martine Rothblatt.Satellite radio is a radio service broadcast from satellites primarily to cars, with the signal broadcast nationwide, across a much wider geographical area than terrestrial radio stations, while transmitting higher quality sound.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Invented by Steve Chen, Jawed Karim, Chad Curley. YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.