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Graphic User Interface Improvements
Apple introduced what is known Lisa who had the new ability to pull down menus and menu bars.
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The Macintosh
Apple introduced the Macintosh in this year. It allowed for 128K RAM of memory. However this amount of memory turned out to not be enough. As a result, Apple realized and improved version months later.
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JPEG Standard
A group of people known as the Joint Photographic Expert Group (JPEG) to create a set of standards for digital images. This was important as the group was able to allow people to send each other a combination of successful photo quaility and file size. It is still used today and is still recongized as a populat way to compress photos.
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Macintosh II
The Mac II included 6 Nubus slots that allowed for different Apple and Third Part expansion cards. It was also the first Mac with color and the ability to have 16.7 million colors. It originally sold for $3,898 for the basic system.
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Windows 3.0
The Windows 3.0 had a new attempt of a 3-D appearance. Along with that there was an improvement of the interface. It had improved windows frame and a command button. It also had a memory beyond 640k. In addition it had new drag and drop icon features. https://www.cs.umd.edu/hcil/muiseum/systems/win3.html -
CompactFlash
Compact Flash was a step in the memory department. It was adopted and preferred as a memory storage option. It was used by regular consumers as well as professionals. It was popular in digital still and video cameras.
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GrandTheft Auto
Grand Theft Auto was created by David Jones and Mike Dailly, The game was different than some of the others of its time seeing as it allowed players to do as they pleased in the city. Namely, it rewarded bad behavior such as hurting pedestrians. But it was still an advancement in technology.
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GNOME 1.0 released.
GNOME was deigned to be user friendly and increase common desktop tasks. It was new because it has 17 languages in order to accommodate their native language. In addition it was efficient and had drag and drop features.
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Nientendo Wii
Nintendo's Wii game system really set a new way to interact with gaming systems. Along with their new games and controllers, Wii shows users the possibilities of a virtual reality. The remote itself was using accelerometer and optical sensor technologies to interact with the user. Thus giving a wider range of how the player can have control.
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Windows 7
The new release had a very little difference from Vista. Some of the few differences was that the user was able to pin icons to the Taskbar. It also had tibbons replace menus in some applications.
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Angry Birds
Angry Birds became super popular as it really showed how far mobile games could go. Players got to slingshot a bird into a stack of green pigs. It made a huge advancement simply because it showed what kind of a market mobile games could have.
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Windows 10
Microsoft released Windows 10. It really went back to a traditional desktop. It gave users the ability to utalize apps that overlap. The upgrade was free to those who had Windows 7 and 8.
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10ISO
