Tech through the years By blakefrey Period: 1960 to 2010 Tech through the years 1967 The floppy disk drive was invented by Alan Shugart in 1967 Oct 29, 1972 Pong was created by Al Alcorn in 1972 1973 The first mobile phone call was made in 1973 by Martin Cooper of Motorola 1989 Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989 2007 Netflix started offering digital streaming in 2007