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On October 6th, 1927 the first movie with sound or "talkie" was premiered. The movie was called "The Jazz Singer" about Young Jakie Rabinowitz who loves jazz and ragtime and wants to be a performer. The movie made $2.6 million dollars at the box office. -
The first vinyl record player sold to the public was created in 1930 by RCA Victor. Made from a flexible plastic at 12 inches in diameter, although they were quite expensive, they were truly revolutionary at the time. -
In 1946, the first jukebox is made by Wurlitzer. It was called 1015 "The Bubbler" and it was able to hold 24 records. -
In 1953, the first musical synthesizer was released by RCA. It was developed by engineers Harry Olsen and Herbart Belar and was so large it took up a whole room at Columbia University's Computer Centre. -
In 1963, the first audio cassette was released by Philips in Belgium. Philips released the invention to Europe at the Berlin Radio Show on August 30th, 1963 and it went on to become one of the most popular ways to listen to music at the time. -
In 1979, the CD was invented. On the 25th anniversary of it's first public release in 1982, it was estimated that 200 billion CDs had been sold worldwide. -
On January 24th, 1984, the first Apple Macintosh was released. The Mac was the first successful all-in-one desktop computer to have a graphical user interface, built-in screen, keyboard and mouse. Fun fact: Apple specifically removed arrow keys from the keyboard so users were forced to use the mouse to move around. -
On September 4th, 1998, Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin in California. It is now the most used website on the internet with over 86.9 billion monthly visits as of June 2021. -
On October 23rd, 2001, the first iPod was introduced by Apple. It cost $300 and was capable of holding 1,000 songs. This ended up being one of Apple's most successful products. -
On February 14th, 2005, YouTube was created. The platform allows users to upload videos for viewers to watch and enjoy. A year later on October 6th, 2006, Google bought YouTube for $1.65 billion dollars. YouTube now generates around $28.8 billion dollars per year. -
At 9:41am on June 29th, 2007, Steve Jobs introduced the iPhone to the public. Costing $499, Apple only sold approximately 1.4 million iPhones in 2007 but they later went on to sell over 231 million just 8 years later in 2015. Since its initial launch in 2007, approximately 2 billion iPhones have been sold as of May 2021. -
On April 3rd, 2010, Steve Jobs introduced the iPad. Costing $499, Apple sold 8.8 million iPads in the U.S alone and have since sold more than 425 million iPads worldwide since it's initial release in 2010. -
On June 30th, 2015, Apple launched its new music streaming platform, Apple Music. It was revolutionary at the time with the service being available in over 100 countries around the world and the entire Apple Music catalogue of over 30 million songs available at your fingertips for only $9.99 a month.
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