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Telex starts as a way to distribute military messages, but soon becomes a world-wide network of both official and commercial text messaging that will persist in some countries into the 2000s.
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Paul Otlet had co-created a massive “search engine” starting in the early 1900s. His Mundaneum now combines enhanced card catalogs with sixteen million entries, photos, documents, microfilm, and more
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Bell Telephone Laboratories completes this calculator, designed by scientist George Stibitz.
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Created at Iowa State University, was the size of a room. Was the first giant computer.
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One of the first commercially produced computers, the company´s first customer was the US Navy. Had 1 million bits stored on magnetic drum.
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At MIT, researchers begin experimenting with direct keyboard input to computers.
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The size of seven refrigerators originally was now compacted down to 1 sq. foot. Steered Apollo 11 to the moon.
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Each system is run by a floppy disk, so it doesn't have to be shared.
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Had removable game cartridges and had buttons to play the games.
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In 1990, the World Wide Web is released
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The largest number of users at the time
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Considered a big step for Apple.
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SGI released Maya, a 3D animation tool
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The growing IEEE 802.11b short-range radio networking standard is rebranded “Wi-Fi” by the Wi-Fi Alliance
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Japan's SoftBank introduces the first camera phone. The camera had a maximum resolution of 0.11 megapixels a 256-color display, and photos could be shared wirelessly.
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Could walk 1 mph, could recognize faces and voice commands, and could change walking direction if it detected hazards. About 100 were built.
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Allowed users to manage media as well as make CDs or put songs on iPods.
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Developed by the Japanese government to create global climate models, the Earth Simulator is a massively parallel, vector-based system that costed roughly $600 million at the time.
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Used a cleaning algorithm to avoid obstacles while cleaning.
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Caltech designs both the Opportunity and Spirit Mars Rovers. Both landed in 2004 and ran 20 times longer than their planned lifetime of 90 days.
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This was a combination of web browser, music player and cell phone - which could download new functionality in the form of apps from the online Apple store.
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Screen resolution of up to 400 pixels-per-inch. Retina display became standard on most technology.
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Voice-activated assistant that could understand questions and answer them via the web.
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The device’s near field communications interface, Passbook app, and Apple’s Touch ID system worked in tandem with point-of-sale systems in retail outlets to complete transactions.
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Basically a computer in the form of a watch.
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Scientists are solving fundamental problems that were holding back cures for hereditary problems
