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The birth of video games and the Brown Box
In 1967, the father of videogames, Ralph Baer and his colleaguse created a prototype for the first multiplayer and multiprogrammable videogame system. The first videogame was Ping Pong. -
The Odyssey
Ralph Baer patents his interactive television game. Four years later Magnavox releases Odyssey, the first home video game system. -
Arcade game "Pong"
Nolan Bushnell and Al Alcorn of Atari develop an arcade table tennis game. -
BASIC Computer games
A year after launching the first general computer magazine, Creative Computing, David Ahl publishes 101 BASIC Computer Games, allowing gamers to become an ancient Sumerian king in HMRABI -
Start of Atari and Pong
Atari introduces its home version of Pong. Atari's founder, Nolan Bushnell, cannot find any partners in the toy business, so he sells the first units through the Sears Roebuck sporting goods department. -
Atari 2600
Atari releases the Video Computer System, more commonly known as Atari 2600. Featuring a joystick, interchangeable cartridges, games in color, and switches for selecting games and setting difficulty levels, it makes millions of Americans home video game players. -
Intelevision
Toy-maker Mattel supplements its handheld electronic games with a new console, the Intellivision. Intellivision has better graphics and more sophisticated controls than Atari 2600 -
Pac-Man and Mrs. Pac-Man
Namco’s Toru Iwatani to create Pac-Man, which goes on sale in July 1980. That year a version of Pac-Man for Atari 2600 becomes the first arcade hit to appear on a home console. Two years later, Ms. Pac-Man strikes a blow for gender equality by becoming the best-selling arcade game of all time. -
Beginning of Nintendo
Video game fans go ape over Nintendo’s Donkey Kong, featuring a character that would become world-famous: Jumpman. Never heard of him? That’s because he’s better known as Mario—the name he took when his creator, Shigeru Miyamoto, makes him the star of a later game by Nintendo. -
Bluetooth (unknown date)
In 1994 a group of engineers at Ericsson, a Swedish company, invented a wireless communication technology, later called Bluetooth. In 1998, Ericsson, Intel, Nokia, Toshiba and IBM came together to form the Bluetooth Special Interest Group. No single company owns the technology -
BroadBand/High speed internet
Though companies began offering dial-up Internet access on a larger scale in 1993 and many government restrictions were lifted in 1995, larger-scale progress in the history of broadband technology didn't happen until 1996. That year, Rogers Communications was the first North American company to offer household cable modem service. -
Netflix (Unknown date)
Netflix, Inc. is a provider of on-demand Internet streaming media available to viewers in all of North America, South America and parts of Europe, and of flat rate DVD-by-mail in the United States, where mailed DVDs are sent via Permit Reply Mail. -
The Birth of Google
Google is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, and software. -
How Cloud Started (Unknown date)
In 2002 Amazon started Amazon Web Services, providing services like storage, computation and even human intelligence. However, only starting with the launch of the Elastic Compute Cloud in 2006 did a truly commercial service open to everybody exist.
2009 marked a key turning point in the evolution of cloud computing, with the arrival of browser based cloud enterprise applications, with the best known being Google Apps.http://wikibon.org/wiki/v/A_brief_history_of_cloud_computing -
FaceBook
Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 2004, owned and operated by Facebook. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin. -
The Birth of YouTube
YouTube is a video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005. In November 2006, it was bought by Google for US$1.65 billion.