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Inventor, Douglas Engelbart, patents the first computer mouse.
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Invented by the SRI, the robot can use a TV camera, laser range finder and bump sensors to collect data and could move at a speed of 2 meters per hour.
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Jeff Dailey (19-year old) becomes the first person to die from video games. Dies from a heart attack after receiving a score of 16,660 on Berzerk.
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Microsoft Works was an office program that had a word processor, spreadsheet, database and other office applications.
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Created by brothers John and Thomas Knoll, the program was intended as a tool for manipulating images that were digitized by a scanner, which was a device that was hard to get in those days
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Tim Berners- Lee successfully sets up the first web server at info.cern.ch
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Neil Papworth uses his personal computer to send the first SMS text message to the phone of Richard Javis
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It's founders were Jerry Yang and David Filo. Yahoo! was Jerry's guide to the world wide web originally.
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Artists slowly start recording songs to be sold for profit on ITunes.
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They introduce the iPhone to the public at the Macworld Conference & Expo
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The iPad has capabilities such as a hi-definition camera, access to the iTunes store, and improved audio/video.
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The surgery was performed at Montreal Hospital. DaVinci is a surgical robot that can be controlled by surgeons from remote locations, and McSleepy is an anesthesia robot.
