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The first mechanical Printing Press is created in Germany by Johannes Gutenberg.
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Robert Hooke invents the string telephone.
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Innocenzo Manzetti moots the idea of a speaking telegraph.
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Phillip Reis constructs the first speech-transmitting telephone.
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Bell uses a bi-directional "gallows" telephone that was able to transmit "voice like soudnds", but not clear speech.
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Thomas Edison experiments with acoustic telegraphy and in November built an electro-dynamic reciever.
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Elisha Gray designs a liquid transmitter for use with a telephone but did not build one.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the the first words into the telephone.
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The first long-distance telephone line is created.
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The first experimental Telephone Exchange occurs in Boston.
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The Scientific American publishes the invention from Bell, which did not have a ringing system.
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The Candlestick Telephone is invented around the 1890's.
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The U.S becomes the world leader in teledensity.
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Over 3 million phones are in use in the U.S.
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John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry design a prototype of the ABC computer (the first automated digital computer).
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John Mauchly and J. Presper Eckert design the ENIAC (Electronic Numerator Integrator and Calculator), the first successful high speed digital computer. However, it used the same concepts that Atanasoff and Berry used to build the ABC computer.
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Bell Labs engineers propose a hexagonal cell transmission for the mobile phone.
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The internet was created as part of a U.S Research project in the 1960's, but it wasn't until the 1980's that the internet that we know (and sometimes love) today came into being. It was then commercialised in the 1990's.
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The Programma 101 is released. It is the first commercially available 'Desktop Computer'.
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Edward Thorp creates the first wearable computer that he uses to help him win games of roulette.
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A prototype for the first multiplayer, multiprogram game system is developed.
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Martin Cooper places a cellular phone call to Dr. Joel S. Engel, the head of research at AT&T's Bell Labs. This begins the era of the handheld cellular mobile phone, and a multimedia revolution.
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Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates.
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The first Apple 1 Computer is sold.
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Apple was founded by Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
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The Apple II computer is released.
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SONY introduces a portable audio cassette player.
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Sony introduces the consumer camcorder.
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Sony releases the first Floppy Disk Drives and disquettes.
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Commodore introduces the C64 Home Computer.
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The Nintendo Entertainment System is released. It later goes on to become one of the greatest consoles of all time, rated only behind the Sega Dreamcast.
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Apple Computers releases the Macintosh computer.
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The classic video game Doom is released. It goes on to be ranked as one of the best games of all time.
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Nintendo releases the Nintendo 64, a home-gaming console equipped for 3D and Colour gaming. It spawns several popular game titles such as Super Mario 64, Donkey Kong 64, Lylat Wars 64, and Pilotwings 64.
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SEGA releases their final console, the first in the generation six console series. It is designed to be a cheap alternative to the previous SEGA consoles.
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Microsoft released the Xbox straight into the foray of the sixth generation consoles.
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Valve Corporation is beta testing for their upcoming game platform, Steam.
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Microsoft releases Xbox live, a fee-based online gaming service for their console, the Xbox.
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Valve Corporation publicly releases their games platform, Steam.
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Valve Corporation releases the game Half-Life 2. It goes on to win many game awards and also begin a craze for Half-Life 3, which unfortunately still persists to this day.
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Nintendo releases the Wii. It's controller allows simulated hand movement usable in most games released for the console.
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Kinect is released for Xbox 360. It allows the user to move in front of a camera and have his movements read by the game.
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SONY releases Move for the playstation. It looks quite unwieldy, though its concept is similar to that of the Wii Controller.
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The Google Glass Prototype released to certain beta participants. Google Glass was a type of wearable technologoy utilising an optical head-mounted display, or OHMD. The technology featured on the Google Glass included a Touchpad, a camera, and a Liquid Crystal on Silicon display that could be seen by the wearer.