Technology Timeline

By ALH

  • first movie

    first movie
    The world's earliest surviving motion-picture film, showing actual consecutive action is called Roundhay Garden Scene. It's a short film directed by French inventor Louis Le Prince. While it's just 2.11 seconds long, it is technically a movie.

  • first Tv

    first Tv
    The first American TV station began broadcasting on July 2, 1928. it was the first commercially licensed television station in the US

  • first video game

    first video game
    In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong,

  • first flat screen

    first flat screen
    The first production flat-panel display was the Aiken tube, developed in the early 1950s and produced in limited numbers in 1958.

  • first laptop

    first laptop
    The laptop was invented by Adam Osborne in 1981. It was called ''Osborne 1

  • first eftpos

    first eftpos
    In Australia, in 1984 Westpac was the first major Australian bank to implement an EFTPOS system, at BP petrol stations

  • first flip phone

    first flip phone
    Most people college age or older probably had some sort of flip phone in their life before the iPhone was introduced.

  • first ipod

    first ipod
    Fadell partnered with a company called PortalPlayer who had been working on their own MP3 player to design the software for the new Apple music player.

  • first iphone

    first iphone
    The first-generation iPhone supports text, picture, video and voice messages, giving you the ability to use the phone for sending and receiving these types of messages

  • first ipad

    first ipad
    specific names included iTablet and iSlate. The iPad was announced on January 27, 2010, by Steve Jobs.