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  • Development of mobile telphony begins.

    Tests of wireless telephony on military trains between Berlin and Zossen begin.
  • First fully automated mobile phone system for vehicles.

    First fully automated mobile phone system for vehicles.
    The first fully automated mobile phone system for vehicles was launched in Sweden in 1956. Named MTA, it allowed calls to be made and received in the car using a rotary dial.
  • First Operating System

    The first operating system was the GM-NAA I/O, produced in 1956 by General Motors' Research division
  • ARPANET

  • Unix Followed by Linux

    Unix and Linux were both a multitasking, multi-user computer operating system with Unix being first then followed by Linux
  • First call made on a mobile device

    Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment, placing a call to Dr. Joel S. Engel.
  • OSX

    OSX
    Apple introduced the Macintosh personal computer, with the Macintosh 128K model, which came bundled with what was later renamed the Mac OS, but then known simply as the System Software.
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web
  • Microsoft Office

    Microsoft Office
    Microsoft Office is an office suite of desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems, it originally had only Microsoft Word, Excel, Powerpoint.
  • IBM Simon

    IBM Simon
    This was possibly the world's first smartphone. It was a mobile phone, pager, fax machine, and PDA all rolled into one.
  • Google is Born

    Google is a commerical site that allows the user to search the web
  • Salesforce.com

    Salesforce.com pioneers the concept of delivering enterprise applications via a simple website
  • iTunes

    iTunes
    iTunes made buying movies, songs, shows simplier and easy to use.
  • Napster

    Napster
    Created by Sean Parker in 1999, was the first filesharing website, was later sued by Metallica and many oothers.
  • AT&T Introduces Text Messaging to the U.S.

    AT&T Introduces Text Messaging to the U.S.
    Texting, which took Europe by storm, is now in the U.S
  • USB Drives

    USB Drives
    USB Drives made it simplier to transfer information.
  • 3G Trial

    3G Trial
    The first pre-commercial trial network with 3G was launched by NTT DoCoMo in Japan in the Tokyo region.
  • Amazon Web Services

    Amazon provides a suite of cloud-based services including storage, computation and even human intelligence through the Amazon Mechanical Turk
  • Camera Phones

    After just one year of release, they had already sold 80 million camera phones.
  • Safari

    Safari
    Safari is Apple's form of Internet Explorer. It was origially a public beta and is now all default browsers for Apple devices.
  • FireFox

    FireFox
    Mozilla Firefox is a free and open source[12] web browser developed for Windows, OS X and Linux, with a mobile version for Android
  • Web 2,0 introduced

    With this update of the second generation of the World Wide Web, the users change and help the site.
    Examples: Blogs, and Wikis
  • Youtube

    Youtube made everything easier to share funny videos, informattive videos, or how to videos.
  • Android

    Android
    Android is a Linux-based operating system designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices such as smartphones and tablet computers. Initially developed by Android, Inc., which Google backed financially and later bought in 2005, Android was unveiled in 2007
  • Fair Use Youtube

    YouTube tries to help everyone realize the consequences of copyright infringments
  • Wii!

    Wii!
    Wii revolutionized the way we play games by getting people to do work while having fun
  • Apple's new invention

    Apple's new invention
  • Cloud computing begins

  • iOS

    iOS
    iOs is a mobile operating system developed and distributed by Apple Inc. Originally unveiled in 2007 for the iPhone, it has been extended to support other Apple devices such as the iPod Touch, iPad and second-generation Apple TV
  • Apple Revoluionizes laptops

    Apple Revoluionizes laptops
    With Apple's newest creation, laptops became easier to move around.
  • App Store

    App Store
    The Apple App Store is a digital application distribution platform for iOS developed and maintained by Apple Inc. The service allows users to browse and download applications that were developed with Apple's iOS SDK. The apps can be downloaded directly to an iOS device, or onto a personal computer via iTunes.
  • Microsoft's response to Google

    Bing is another search engine that allows the user to search the web.
  • Google starts its own

    Google starts to offer browser-based enterprise applications, though services such as Google Apps
  • Windows 7

    Windows 7
    Windows 7 is an operating system produced by Microsoft for use on personal computers, including home and business desktops, laptops, netbooks, tablet PCs, and media center PCs.
  • Chrome Store

    Chrome Store
    The Chrome Web Store is Google's online store for web applications for Google Chrome or Google Apps.
  • Windows Mobile

    Windows Mobile
    Windows Mobile is a family of mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft for smartphones and Pocket PCs.[2] Windows Mobile is the predecessor of Windows Phone.
  • Kinect

    Kinect