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During this period the telegraph was being developed by Samuel Morse in America.
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Samuel Morse sends the first telegraph message from Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland.
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Bell Laboratories Bell Laboratories, a division of the American Telephone & Telegraph Company, developed this amazing device that got the ball rolling for mobile development.
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First Used By Military Units at Guadalcanal
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Creator of the first mobile phone.
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Made by a man using a mobile phone in a truck. Alton Dickieson and D. Mitchell from Bell Labs worked over 10 years to see this happen.
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Bill Gates was young, ambitious, and hungry. He often attributes his success to the begininning of his professional academic life. He wanted to put a computer in every business and home across the US. And he was bound to find a way.
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First GUI made by Xerox at the Palo Alto Research Center. This was the first workstation with borders scrollers and text layout.
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Somewhere in the summer of 1975 Steve Jobs had an epiphany that life is not written one way, so neither should computers. He began to work with calligraphy in his code in order to bring various font options to the user. He strove for the art in his design.
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This amazing GUI brought us graphs, context layout, double click, and interface menus. However it wasa huge flop when it hit the shelves.
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This year EVERYBODY wanted to get their GUI's released. This was a hige year for Apple, IBM, and Microsoft,
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Preview of Apple's LISA LISA is born! Apple finally released its big GUI project. LISA was the first step in the home personal computer for Apple.
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IBM releases VISI in attempts to compete with Apple and Microsoft.
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Microsoft releases its first GUI, Windows 1.0. Windows was a huge success to the industry that is still vastly used today.
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Holiday season 1989's big release was Nintendo's Game Boy! The first mainstream mobile gaming platform that is still a favorite. This amazing device gor the ball rolling for mobile gaming and eventually led it into the cellular era.
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Tetris becomes the first mobile game to hit cell phones. The Hagenuk MT-2000 is the revolutioary device that bridged cell phones, and gaming.
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Angry Birds opened the door for free-to-play mobile games. This 'freemium' game allows for in-app purchases that allows users special goodies as they play. This started a boom in similar games that now overload the app store.
