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Email
Invented by Ray Tomlinson, the invention of email came from the fact that at the time messages could only be sent amongst users on the same mainframe. He was the first to be able to send a message successfully from one computer to another. This was done by using the @ symbol to separate and specify the username of the recipient and the computer that it would be sent to. -
Floppy Disk
The floppy disk was invented by a team of engineers at IBM led by Alan Shugart as a means of data storage, each disk holding 80kb of information. -
The First Cell Phones
The first successful cell phone prototype was created by Martin Cooper, 10 years before the first commercial ones hit the market. The Motorola DynaTAC cell phone that he created had a battery life of 35 minutes. -
MITS Altair 8800
Considered to be the first personal computer, the MITS Altair 8800 was the beginning of accessible and affordable computers becoming available to the public. It was created by Ed Roberts. -
Global Position System (GPS)
GPS is something that is now essential to modern life, but it was initially developed by the U.S. Department of Defense as a defense system to protect the country. After a series of tests and prototypes starting in 1973, the first NAVSTAR satellite was finally launched in 1978.