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In the late 1940's the transitor was invented which led the way to more powerful digital computers.
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This timeline shows the stroy of the digital revolution and how it shaped the modern world.
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The Whole Earth movement of 1960 provided was a huge deal, and was very important in creating in the World Wide Web
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The computer mouse is now considered something that a computer has to have. But before the 1980's, literally no computers used mouses and so had zero hand navigation on screen! A Computer Mouse Prototype was invented by Bill English in the year 1963
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The home computer acdded a whole new branch of comfort and reliabilty.
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A solder-yourself computer kit created by Ed Rogers
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Despite video games not being viewed as very sighnificant in the digital timeline. Video games opend up a whole new branch to technology and helped advance other things
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Cell phone subscribers at the time- 11.2 million
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The world's internet users at the time were recorded in a book the size of a phone dictionary.
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In 1981 around 15% of homes had a computer in the United Staes
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The early 1980's saw the exciting transition from analog music to digital compact players such as cassests and vinyl records
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The very first true digital camera was made in 1988 and imspired a whole new branch of media in the next decades.
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Eric bina created the first web browser to be able to portray images. This isnpired many web creators and opend up lots of new oppotunities
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At the start of 1994 there were 700 websites in the world. By the end of the year there were 10,000
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in 2005 the total population was 1 billion!
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By 2010 there were 4 billion cell phone subscribers. This made up 67% of the world's population
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