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Charles Babbage - First Programmable Computer
Why & What: To solve a number crunching crisis, it would be able to compute tables of numbers
Where: Made in England -
Morrisons
What: Supermarket
Why: To make a food shop
Where: Bradford, UK -
Willy Higinbotham - First Computer Game
What: Table tennis game
Why: To create a computer game
Where: New York (USA) -
John Atanasoff - First Electronic Computer
What: First commercial scientific computer
Why: Defense Calculator
Where: Bletchley Park -
Douglas Engelbart - First Computer mouse
What: a pair of small wheels traversing a tabletop, one wheel turning horizontally, one turning vertically,
Why: To see how clever he was
Where: USA -
Asda
What: American Owned supermarket
Why: Create a supermarket
Where: Leeds, UK -
Robert E.Kahn & Vint Cerf
What: connections between computers
Why: to allow multiple computers to communicate on a single network
Where: USA -
Ray Tomlinson - First Email Sent
What: the system for using computers to send messages over the internet
Why: Wanted to see how clever he was, so challenged himself
Where: USA -
Steven Jobs - Apple
What: Technology company
Why: Use new computers
Where:USA -
Sainsburys
What: Succesful Grocery store
Why: To create a supermarket
Where: UK -
Tesco
What: Grocery Store
Why: Buy food on internet
Where: UK -
Netflix -
What: An internet site where peole can watch films for a price each month
Why: People could watch films
Where: California -
Larry Page - Google
What: Internet related services and products
Why: People could use use a search engine
Where: USA -
myspace - Timothy Vanderhook
What: Social Networking Site
Why: So people can listen to music
Where: Beverly Hills, USA
First ever Social Network invented -
Mark Zuckerberg - Invented Facebook
What: a website where you can show information about yourself, and communicate with groups of friends
Why: For american college students then developed into world wide communication
Where: USA -
Google Maps
What: To find a route from a start & destination
Why: to help people find the correct route
Where: USA -
Me at the zoo - First YouTube Video
What: Someone talking about elephants on camera
Why: To have the first youtube clip invented
Where: San Diego -
Qzone
What: Somewhere to keep blogs, diaries, send photos and listen to music
Why: To create a social media website in China
Where: China -
Twitter - Dick Costolo
What: Social Networking Site
Why: Enables users to send and read short 140 character messages called 'tweets'
Where: San Francisco -
Steve Jobs - iPhone
What: A new type of phone
Why: To make money and create a new phone for people
Where: -
Tumblr
What: Social Networking Site
Why: Post Photos
Where: New York City, USA -
Kevin Sytrem - Instagram
Why: Free mobile app
Why: Share photos
Where: USA -
Bobby Murphy - Snapchat
What: Video messaging application
Why: To send photos and videos to friends
Where: -
Sat-Nav
What: Nagigation System
Why: Stop people from looking at their phones on the road
Where: USA -
Chad Hurley - YouTube Invented
What: A site where you can watch videos for free
Why: Friendly site for people to upload family videos
Where: California -
iTunes
What: Buy songs to download onto iphone/pads/ipods
Why: So people could access music on phoenes
Where: USA -
Driveless delivery
The delivery vans will deliver the food without a driver in -
Future Jobs
The job you that you may have in 10 yeaes may not even exist today -
Easy Keyboard
Be able to bring up a keyboard wherever you are -
Computer - find objects
You will be able to find a computer based search engine to find objects -
Humans like robots
Robots will do most things that humans do -
Driveless Car
Everyone will drive around in a driveless car -
Tiny Robots inside our body
Tiny robots will be able to to conduct medical surgery from inside our bodies -
Eye
The product can predict what you wish to buy from examining the eye as you walk in the shop -
Driveless Delivery
The deliverys will not actually have a driver in -
Robot Waitor
Everyone will have a robot waitor -
Surfing Internet
You will be actually capable of surfeing the internet by attaching yourself with a plug to go into the intenet
