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Charles Babbage invented the first computer it was called the difference engine. It could only do maths.
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It was shown at the Astor theatre.
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There are numerous debates over who created the first video game, with the answer depending largely on how video games are defined. The evolution of video games represents a tangled web of several different industries, including scientific, computer, arcade, and consumer electronics. The first made was the Cathode Ray Tube Amusement Device.
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The Atanasoff-Berry computer (ABC) was the first electronic computer .It was invented by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry
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Douglas Engelbart created the first compputer mouse in1963.
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The history of the Internet began with the development of electronic computers in the 1950s.
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The first email was sponsored and created by the U.S. Department of Defense and would later lead to the development of the internet. It was sent by Ray Tomlinson.
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A sat nav was designed for auto mobiles and typically uses a gps signal. Using the road database, the unit can give directions to other locations along roads also in its database.
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Windows 1.0 did not allow overlapping windows. Instead all windows were tiled. Only dialog boxes could appear over other windows. It was very simple.
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Sky allowd a bigger selection of channels through a sky box
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Written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. The service allows users to communicate with peers by voice using a microphone, video by using a webcam, and instant messaging over the Internet.
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Facebook is the biggest social networking site in the world. it was inventered by Mark Zuckerberg.
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Youtube is a video sharing website open to vryone. You need to create an account before being able to comment or share video. It was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim.
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Twitter was created in march then was launched in july- thats just 5 months to get it up and running. Twitter is the 2nd largest social networking site coming after facebook and was created by Jack Dorsey.
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The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. The founder and CEO is David Karp and the co-founder and CTO is Marco Arment.
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The kindle allows you to read books that are downloaded onto it so you can be holding 50 books on a small kindle- then you can read the books on the kindle. It has changed the way we read and by printing less books we can save paper and trees
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BBC iplayer allows you to ccatch up with tv at any point in time for the BBC channels through the internet.
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trains will use magnetic forces to move to save fuel and electricity
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Nobody will be using desktop computers because ipads and tablets will have taken over as they can be used anywhere.
