The Impact of ICT

Difference Engine Invented

Feb 15, 1822

Charles Babbage invented 'The Difference Engine' in 1822.

First Electronic computer invented

Apr 7, 1953

The 701 was IBM's first electric computer and the first mass produced computer.

First computer mouse invented

Feb 15, 1963

The first ever computer mouse was invented by Douglas Engelbart at the Stanford Research Institute

First film to be made using a computer

Mar 1, 1967

Created by Charles Csuri in 1967, Hummingbird is a 10 minute snimated film comprising of over 30,000 images in 25 motion sequences which were all generated by computer

ARPANET/Internet invented

Jan 1, 1969

The Internet was invented originally as a war project to store information across a network of computers in case one was destroyed.

First e-mail ever sent

Feb 15, 1972

The first email ever sent was by Ray Tomlinson for ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network).

First text adventure game

Mar 1, 1975

Around 1975, programmer Will Crowther wrote the first text adventure game 'adventure' (later named collosal cave) after just going through a divorce and wanting connect with his two young children.

First major feature film to use 3D CGI

Jul 28, 1976

Futureworld, the sequel of westworld (actually the first feature film to use 2d computer animation), was the first major film to use modern 3D CGI techniques to generate images.

Macintosh 128K

Jan 24, 1984

The Macintosh 128K is the original Apple Mac desktop computer created by Apple in 1984.

Windows 1.0 released

Nov 20, 1985

The first ever Windows Operating-System was produced by Microsoft and released in 1985 as their first attempt in making a multi-tasking graphical user interface based operating system for a PC. Looks a bit like Windows 8 if you think about it. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_1.0

Playstation 1 released

Dec 1, 1994

Sony's original game console Playstation (or PS1) was released in December 1994

First iPod Released

Oct 23, 2001

With a black and white LCD display, 10 hours of battery life and 5GB of memory (1000 songs) the iPod classic 1st gen was the first ever iPod to be released. Though it may seem like not much of a feat now, at the time it was valuead enough to cost $399, roughly the same as the current iPad mini.

Facebook First launched.

Feb 4, 2004

Now the largest social network in the world, Mark Zuckerberg's creation, originalally open to just university students, now has over a billion users.

Youtube invented

Feb 14, 2005

Created by 3 PayPal employees in 2005, youtube is a videosharing website on which users can view, upload, share and comment on videos. The site uses flash HTML5 to display a range of content. There are many different types of videos uploaded such as vlogs, gaming videos, music videos, funny videos, education videos and more.

Twitter Released

Jul 15, 2006

Now the 2nd biggest oscial network in the world, Twitter is an online social networking and microblogging service that lets its users send IMs of 140 characters long caled tweets and follow other people feed. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter

Nyan cat released

Apr 5, 2011

Nyan Cat is the name of a YouTube video, now an Internet meme, uploaded in April 2011 as a mixture of an animated gif of a cat with a Pop-tart body leaving a trail of rainbows as it flies through space and the song "Nyanyanyanyanyanyanya!" from the internet site Nico Nico Douga.

Raspberry Pi released

Feb 29, 2012

The raspberry pi is a credit card sized single-board computer with the purpose of teaching basic computer coding and science in schools. as far as features go, it has a Broadcom BCM2835 system on a chip, 512MB or 256MB of RAM, VideoCore IV GPU and an ARM1176JZF-S 700 MHz processor. The raspberry pi mainly uses Linux based OS's and the list of OS's include Debian Linux, Raspian OS, Fedora, Arch Linux ARM, Firefox OS, Google Chrome OS (or Chromium OS) and Web OS.

Adobe after effects CS6 Released

Oct 12, 2012

Adobe After Effects (or AE) is a montion graphics and compositing software made by Adobe Systems most often used in the post-production process of filmmaking and production for VFX, Compositing and Finishing. It uses 2D and 2.5D animation. In its original form (provided by CoSA) it featured masks, effects, transforms and keyframe editing. However, 10 years on it features very advanced 2.5D animation, camera and motion tracking, integration with other Adobe products, and much more.

PlayStation 4 release

Nov 1, 2013

After a conference on the 20th february 2013, it was known that the PS4 would be released in November of the same year.

Most games for Augmented-Reality headset

Nov 19, 2042

By this time, most games released will have software that enables it to work with an augmented reality headset. I think this may happen as the Oculus rift has already been announced and is in development.