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First Movie
The first movie ever created was called Roundhay Garden Scene, it was a short film created by Louis le Prince. While it is only 2.11 seconds long it is technically a movie -
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First TV Show
In the experimental days of television, the very first full-length program broadcast in the US was a drama in one act called The Queen's Messenger by J. Harley Manners. The WGY radio station in Schenectady, New York. -
First TV Sold
The first TV ever sold was called The Baird Televisor and was sold commercially in 1929. One thousand of these were made. -
First Conception of Computers
English mathematician Alan Turning published a theoretical description of a computer that can solve math problems. -
First Computer
Started in 1943, the ENIAC computing system was built by John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania. Because of its electronic, as opposed to electromechanical, technology, it is over 1,000 times faster than any previous computer. -
Televisions become a Household item
Television programming has had a huge impact on Canadian and world culture. Many critics have dubbed the 1950s as the Golden Age of Television. TV sets were expensive and so the audience was generally affluent. -
First Video Game
In October 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game, similar to the classic 1970s video game Pong, and it was quite a hit at a Brookhaven National Laboratory open house. -
First Commercial Satellite
By 1962, some governments had already launched satellites, largely to carry out extraterrestrial experiments. That year, though, the first commercial satellite went into orbit, forever changing the face of communications. -
First Game Console
In 1972 Magnavox released the world's first home video game console, the Magnavox Odyssey. It came packaged with board game paraphernalia such as cards, paper money and dice to enhance the games. -
First Cell Phone
The first handheld mobile phone was demonstrated in 1973, nearly three decades after the introduction of the first mobile phone service. It was nearly three decades after that before half the U.S. population had a mobile phone. -
Highest Grossing 80s Video Game
The highest grossing game in the 80s was the original Super Mario Bros. it sold 40.24 million units. and became the start of of the extremely popular series Super Mario Bros. -
First Game Boy
The Game Boy is an 8-bit handheld game console developed and manufactured by Nintendo. The first handheld in the Game Boy family, it was first released in Japan on April 21, 1989. The console was released in North America later the same year, then in Europe in late 1990. -
Original PlayStation release
The PlayStation is a home video game console developed and marketed by Sony Computer Entertainment. It was first released on 3 December 1994 in Japan, 9 September 1995 in North America, 29 September 1995 in Europe, and 15 November 1995 in Australia, and was the first of the PlayStation line of video game consoles. -
Highest Grossing 90s Video Game
The highest grossing game in the 1990s went to the first Pokemon game "Pokemon Red/Blue/Green/Yellow" with it selling 46.02 million units and beginning the Pokemon series -
Netflix Release
Netflix, Inc. is an American over-the-top content platform and production company headquartered in Los Gatos, California, United States. The company is a subscription-based streaming service provider offering online streaming from a library of films and television series, 40% of which is Netflix original programming produced in-house -
First Xbox release
The original Xbox was released on November 15, 2001 in North America, February 22, 2002 in Japan, and March 14, 2002 in Australia and Europe. It was Microsoft's first foray into the gaming console market. And it was called the DirectX box -
Original Wii
The Wii is a home video game console developed and marketed by Nintendo. It was first released on November 19, 2006, in North America and in December 2006 for most other regions. -
Highest Grossing 2000s Video Game
The highest grossing video game in the 2000s was the extremely popular Wii sports which was the Wii's first game. -
Twitter Release
witter is an American micro blogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read those that are publicly available. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile front end software, or pro grammatically via its APIs. -
First IPhone
The iPhone is the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. After years of rumors and speculation, it was officially announced in January 2007,[11] and was released in the United States in June. -
Highest Grossing Film
The highest grossing film of all-time with a box office setting 2.85 billion dollars. And a close second being Avenger's Endgame that had 2.8 million dollars at the box office. -
Instagram
Instagram (commonly abbreviated to IG, Insta or the gram)[9] is an American photo and video sharing social networking service created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. In April 2012, Facebook acquired the service for approximately US$1 billion in cash and stock. The app allows users to upload media that can be edited with filters and organized by hashtags and geographical tagging. Posts can be shared publicly or with pre-approved followers. -
Minecraft
Minecraft is a sandbox video game developed by the Swedish video game developer Mojang Studios. The game was created by Markus "Notch" Persson in the Java programming language. Following several early private testing versions, it was first made public in May 2009 before fully releasing in November 2011, with Jens Bergensten then taking over development. -
Most Watched TV Broadcast Ever
The most watched TV broadcast ever is is Superbowl 49 between the Seattle Seahawks and the New England Patriot. A record setting 144 million people watched this game. -
Disney Plus Release
Disney+ (pronounced Disney Plus) is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned and operated by the Media and Entertainment Distribution division of The Walt Disney Company.[1] The service primarily distributes films and television series produced by The Walt Disney Studios and Walt Disney Television, with dedicated content hubs for brands such as Disney, Pixar, Marvel, Star Wars, National Geographic, and including Star in some countries