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First Apple computer
Designed by Steve Wozniak, and marketed by his friend Steve Jobs, the Apple-1 is a single-board computer for hobbyists. With an order for 50 assembled systems from a computer store in California. The Byte Shop in hand, the pair started a new company, naming it Apple Computer, Inc. -
First Computers in the White House
While the US government had funded many computing projects dating back to the 1940s, it wasn't until the Carter administration that a computer was actually installed in the White House. -
IBM Introduces the First "PC"
IBM's brand recognition, along with a massive marketing campaign, ignites the fast growth of the personal computer market with the announcement of its own personal computer. The IBM PC revolutionized business computing by becoming the first PC to gain widespread adoption by industry. -
First CD
Able to hold 550 megabytes of pre-recorded data, CD-ROM's grow out of music Compact Disks. The CD was developed by Sony and Philips in 1982 for distributing music. The first general-interest CD-ROM product released after Philips and Sony announced the CD-ROM format in 1984 was Grolier's Electronic Encyclopedia, which came out in 1985. -
Photoshop is Released
Created by brothers John and Thomas Knoll, Photoshop was an image editing program and the most popular software program published by Adobe Systems. Thomas, at the University of Michigan, had created an early version of the program in 1987, and John saw a practical use for it as a special effects staff member at Industrial Light & Magic. -
Entertainment Software Rating Board
The release of violent video games such as Mortal Kombat, Night Trap, and Doomleads to a set of congressional hearings in 1992. While several companies had individual voluntary ratings systems for their games, there was no industry-wide system in place. -
Sony Releases the First PlayStation
Electronics giant Sony enters the home gaming market with the release of the PlayStation console. Originally a disk-based gaming system, it originally started as a collaboration between Sony and console manufacturer Nintendo to create a CD-ROM-based version of their Super Nintendo gaming system. -
Itunes Released
It was based on Bill Kincaid’s SoundJam MP software, the rights to which Apple purchased. Initially, iTunes was only supported on the Mac operating system and functioned as a media player and media management tool. iTunes allowed users to record music from CDs, bring it into iTunes, mix it with other songs and then burn a custom CD. -
The Wii is Released
Nintendo's Wii game system does not merely introduce new games and controllers, but new ways of interacting with game systems. These advances allowed for games to incorporate a wide range of player physical movements. -
The Apple iPad is Released
The iPad combines many of the popular capabilities of the iPhone, such as built-in high-definition camera, access to the iTunes Store, and audio-video capabilities, but with a nine-inch screen and without the phone. Apps, games, and accessories helped spur the popularity of the iPad and led to its adoption in thousands of different applications from movie making, creating art, making music, and inventory control. This is special to me because this was my first electronic device. -
iPhone 4 is released
The iPhone 4 was made and released in 2010. There were many differences between this phone and the previous 3g. This has to do with me because it was my first phone,
