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Sponsored by the Army, the ENIAC was the first computer ever invented. It was the size of a building, and all it could do was basic, fourteen digit, math calculations. "...With the advent of everyday use of elaborate calculations, speed has become paramount to such a high degree that there is no machine on the market today capable of satisfying the full demand of modern computational methods." - from the ENIAC patent (U.S.#3,120,606) filed on June 26, 1947."
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The floppy disk was the first "memory disk", invented by Alan Shugart, who led IBM engeeners at the time. It was an 8-inch flexible plastic disk coated with magnetic iron oxide; computer data was written to and read from the disk's surface.
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The inventor was Martin Cooper, and at the time he was working as general manager of Motorola's Communications Systems Division. The first call, placed to Cooper's rival at AT&T's Bell Labs from the streets of New York City, caused a fundamental technology and communications market shift toward the person and away from the place.
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It was named Epson HX-20, and it wheighed 1.6 kg. It did not do much from writing, printing and calculate numbers.
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It was created by Tim Berners-Lee, the World Wide Web's creator, who at the time worked for the CERN (European Organization for Nuclear Research). The website was a "tutorial" for how to set up a web page, about the World Wide Web project and how to research information online.
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"Hey, what is Einstein's theory of Relativity?"
"Um...I dunno... GOOGLE IT." Google began as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in California. Today it is the answer for all of our questions. -
Manufactured by Korea's Saehan Information Systems, the device was launched in March of 1998 at CeBIT, and went on sale in the Summer through Eiger Labs for $250. The player featured 32MB of flash memory (which could be upgraded to 64MB via mail-in scheme), connected to PCs via parallel port, and had a miniscule LCD for playback info.
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IBM's USB flash drive became available on December 15, 2000 and had a storage capacity of 8 MB, more than five times the capacity of the then-common floppy disks.
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1st YouTube Video This is the First YouTube video, called Me At The Zoo.
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Who would ever say that we would be getting so far?!
