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Landline/Telephone
Invention: Telephone Inventor: Alexander Graham Bell Description: The telephone was created around 1876 but the late 1990s saw the emergence of different variations of the telephone used for the service of a home landline. Many older generations would have these home phones that could only be used throughout the house -
Cassettes
Invention: Compact Cassette or Musicassette (MC) Developed by: Philips Description: When the cassette became compact there were a majority of uses ranging from education, music, recordings, etc. It became a big part of people's life before the MP3 players came around -
VHS
Invention: Video Home System (VHS) Inventor: JVC (Victor Company of Japan) Descriptions: This was mainly used in its aged form for television until a company found a way to commercialize it for home users. the video player is bought separately and VHS tapes changed home entertainment for the meantime -
MP3 player (iPod)
Invention: MPEG-1 Audio Layer III or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III Developed by: Karlheinz Brandenburg, Ernst Eberlein, Heinz Gerhäuser, Bernhard Grill, Jürgen Herre and Harald Popp (all of Fraunhofer Society) in Germany Description: Portable music using the MP3 format made music stylish. You can walk around with the media player that was less bulky. It came around the 2000s after the format was created -
DVDs/CDs
Invention: Digital Video Disc or Digital Versatile Disc (DVDs) Developed by: Sony, Panasonic, Philips, Toshiba Description: Lightweight discs that hold gigabytes of information that are used in movies, games, music, and more. It is reliable in replaying information for any use.