Technology Use Progression

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
    Proposed by Sir Time Berners Lee of CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research) in 1989. In 1990, this proposal included a 'read-only system' that linked distributed documents called hypertext, now called HTML
  • Webcam

    Webcam
    The first webcam comes from Cambridge University and was invented by James Quentin and Paul Jardetzky.
  • Google

    Google
    Google started as a research project by 2 PhD scholars at Stanford in 1996. Two years after their project, Google was incorporated.
  • BlackBerry

    BlackBerry
    The first BlackBerry mobile phone was launched in 1999. BlackBerry was at the top of the smart phone competition until Google and Apple 'stepped up'.
  • Bluetooth 1.0

    Bluetooth 1.0
    Bluetooth technology started mobile wireless file sharing. There was no need for cables, etc. It was not as fast as cable transfers but it was a huge step for technology