21st Century Timeline

Apple

Apr 1, 1976

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_Inc. Apple is a company that specializes in new and hot forms of technology and programming, companies like apple have helped us advance in technology.

Laptop

Jan 1, 1981

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laptop Laptops are portable computers, when they came out they revelutionized technology by making it transportable.

Wi-Fi (Wireless Fidelity)

Jan 1, 1991

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wi-Fi Wi-Fi, also known as Wireless Fidelity, helps cellphones, computers or any other source of technology to communicate and use the internet when in a certain area without having the cost of data.

Smart Phones

Jan 1, 1992

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smartphone Smartphones are the upgraded version of phones with accesibility to internet and applications and the ability to take pictures, they are basically portable tiny computers, this helped make technology more portable.

Yahoo!

Jan 1, 1994

https://www.yahoo.com/ Yahoo is yet another search engine, but it was one of the original concepts, which was founded before Google. This shows hoe concepts come around and get transformed as the years go and changed by companies using the same concept.

Bluetooth

Feb 1, 1994

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth Bluetooth is a wireless technology that allows individuals to send data over short distances, this helped to make technology more "hands-free"

Amazon

Jul 5, 1994

http://www.amazon.com/ Amazon is an online site that allows someone to buy any item online and have it delivered to their house. This revelutionized the internet and made online shopping become more popular. Yet another way the internet is monopolizing other markets in life.

Ebay

Sep 3, 1995

http://www.ebay.com/ Ebay is an online site where you can purchse items to be sent to your house, this helped to make the web more controversial.

Google

Sep 4, 1998

http://www.google.com/ Google was one of the first major search engines to be invented and made it easier to access information.

Web 2.0

Jan 1, 1999

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_2.0 Web 2.0 is an upgraded version of the internet where users can do more than just retrieve information in addition they can now create profiles, making a more interactive system.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

http://www.facebook.com Facebook is a social media site that has aided in making communication easier by allowing friends to interact with one another via posts and direct messages without being in the same room.

YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

http://www.youtube.com/education?edufilter=qUQygy0IErlLx_Z3GCg39Q&edufilter=qUQygy0IErlLx_Z3GCg39Q YouTube is an online site where you can listen to almost any song or music genre on the market for free. This allowed music to become more accesible.

Twitter

Mar 21, 2006

https://twitter.com/login Twitter is a social media site where users can create profiles to interect and socialize with other people, this helped make the internet more connected.

ICloud

Aug 9, 2006

http://www.technologyreview.com/news/425970/who-coined-cloud-computing/ Cloud is a a term that refers to information being stored in a file over the internet, which an individual can access anywhere, on any device, this helped in providing a sort of insurance for information, making it harder to lose data and easier to get it back on other devices.

Hulu

Mar 1, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hulu Hulu is another site that was formed from a major concept of portable TV on mobile devices, anywhere you want it. It piggybacked off of Netflix concept, changing accesibility to television.

IPhone

Jun 29, 2007

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone Iphone was the first smart-phone of it's kind which made it double as a mini computer, giving people the ability to access applications and the internet anywhere.

Bing

Jun 1, 2009

http://www.bing.com/ Bing is a search engine much like google but a newer version. This shows the evolution of ideas poping up and changing through different versions of companies adaptig their ideas.

Instagram

Jan 1, 2010

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instagram Instagram is a social media site that specializes in users posting creative pictures for others to see, like and comment. This helped create specialized sites and show that people can interact in other ways besides soley through statuses.

Pinterest

Mar 1, 2010

https://www.pinterest.com/ Pinterest is a site with various categories of interest for people to see and then pin their own interest or likes and re-pin others interest or likes. This helped in revolutionizing communication and social media.

Netflix

Feb 11, 2015

http://www.Netflix.com Netflix isa site where an individual can rent any movie or see any TV series for a small fee, it is an account that can be logged on to multiple devices to watch TV anywhere, this helped in making TV portable.