History of Technology

By Edgar Roman
  • 1st Milestone

    1st Milestone

    The first smartphone with a display screen and foldable was the Motorola StarTac priced at $1,000 in 1989 and $7,803 with inflation.
  • 2nd Milestone

    2nd Milestone

    The World Wide Web was invented.
  • 3rd Milestone

    3rd Milestone

    The first Cell Phone with a GPS was the Benefon ESC.
  • 4th Milestone

    4th Milestone

    The line of iBook laptop computers were designed and sold by Apple from 1999 to 2006.
  • 5th Milestone

    5th Milestone

    The first iPod was released in 2001 and sold 450 million iPod products.
  • 6th Milestone

    6th Milestone

    First lightweight water splash proof smartphone was the Nokia 5210 released on 2002 at a price of $362 now days it would be $643.
  • 7th Milestone

    7th Milestone

    Facebook was launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg.
  • 8th Milestone

    8th Milestone

    YouTube was created by Chad Hurley, Jawed Karim and Steve Chen
  • 9th Milestone

    9th Milestone

    Apple released the first iPhone.
  • 10th Milestone

    10th Milestone

    Ridesharing called Uber was invented by Garrett Camp.
  • 11th Milestone

    11th Milestone

    Apple released the first version of the iPad.
  • 12th Milestone

    12th Milestone

    Siri was purchased by Apple and was released on the iPhone 4.
  • 13th Milestone

    13th Milestone

    The first video doorbell was released to the public. It was invented by Jamie Siminoff and sold 20,000 units by the first year.
  • 14th Milestone

    14th Milestone

    TikTok was released by a China Company.
  • 15th Milestone

    15th Milestone

    ChatGPT was released and used by millions on a daily basis.

  • Future Technology

    I suspect that in the future our phones will be able to read our faces and tell us what we are thinking. They will also feature wireless charging ports and charge using light energy/sun like a solar panel.