Chart 1 (3)

Generations Technology Usage

By cmteched
  • Rotary Dial Phone released

    Rotary Dial Phone released

  • Period: to

    Silent Generation

  • Period: to

    Baby Boomer Generation

  • First Touch Tone phone released

    First Touch Tone phone released

    First "button" phone released
  • Period: to

    Generation X

  • ARPA Net

    ARPA Net

    ARPA net goes online connecting four major U.S. universities
  • First email

    First email

    Electronic mail is introduced by Ray Tomlinson, a Cambridge, MA computer scientist using the @ sign
  • Apple 2 released

    Apple 2 released

    Apple releases the Apple 2
  • First Cell Phone

    First Cell Phone

    First cell phone network in Japan
  • Period: to

    Millenials

  • Internet

    Internet

    The term Internet is used for the first time
  • First Internet WORM

    First Internet WORM

    The first Internet Worm temporarily shuts down about 10% of the world's Internet servers.
  • First SMS Text

    First SMS Text

  • First Dial Up

    First Dial Up

    First dial up internet connection
  • Period: to

    Generation @

  • VOIP developed

    VOIP developed

    Voice over IP (Internet phone)
  • Skype founded

    Skype founded

  • YouTube Launched

    YouTube Launched

  • iPhone released

    iPhone released

  • iPad 1 Released

    iPad 1 Released

  • Most teens have cell phones

    Most teens have cell phones

    2009 survey showed between 58% of 12 year olds owned their own cell phone and 83% of 17 year olds owned a cell phone