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First commercial cellphone created
The handheld device weighed 0.8 kilograms and its rechargeable battery was reported to last about eight hours.Pressing an "off-hook" button — so-called to symbolize picking up a standard telephone from its base — would start a phone call, while pressing an "on-hook" button would end the conversation. -
First Portable Computer
At Berkeley, Bill Joy incorporates the new TCP/IP suite into the next release of the Unix operating system. The first ‘portable’ computer is launched in the form of the Osborne, a 24-pound suitcase-sized device. -
World Wide Web Created
He created html and http. http stands for Hyper Text Transfer Protical -
Web Browsers are created
A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for retrieving, presenting and traversing information resources on the World Wide Web. An information resource is identified by a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) and may be a web page, image, video or other piece of content. Hyperlinks present in resources enable users easily to navigate their browsers to related resources. The first web browser was invented in 1990 by Sir Tim Berners-Lee. It was called WorldWideWeb. -
Microsoft Office is created
Microsoft Office is an office suite of desktop applications, servers and services for the Microsoft Windows and OS X operating systems, introduced by Microsoft on August 1, 1989. Initially a marketing term for a bundled set of applications, the first version of Office contained Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, and Microsoft Powerpoint. -
The original smartphone created
Bellsouth and IBM announced their creation of the Simon personal communicator phone, touted as the world's first smartphone. Simon was designed to be a cellphone first and a computer second, according to the product's media release. The device, with a $899 suggested pricetag, boasted such features as:A pager.
E-mail.
A stylus for writing on the screen, with handwriting reflected as-is for faxes.
A complete keypad featuring letters and numbers.
A calendar that could be updated automat -
Cloud Computing is created by Salesforce.com
The first sighting of cloud commputing is made and this even woukd go on to change the way we store our data and even how business store their data -
Amazon Web Services is created.
which is a suite of cloud-based services including storage, computation and even human intelligence through the Amazon Mechanical Turk. -
Cellphone cameras are made into phones for first time
the first phones with built-in cameras became publicly available, including the Nokia 7650 and the Sanyo SPC-5300. The Nokia phone boasted "a large 176x208 pixel colour display," according to a media release at the time. The Sanyo version offered three user-controlled tones, white balance and zoom. Today's iPhone 5, in contrast, offers an eight-megapixel camera with autofocus, flash and built-in face detection -
BlackBerry's first integrated phone created
The Waterloo, Ont.-based smartphone giant, formerly called Research in Motion, unveiled its first integrated phone in 2003. Part of BlackBerry's Quark series, the BlackBerry 6210 was the company's first device to offer:Email.
Texting.
A web browser.
BlackBerry Messenger service, allowing for web-based communication between BlackBerry users. -
Facebook created; One of the first web 2.0 websites
Though it was created before web 2.0 was created it was most likely one of the first web 2.0 tools -
Web 2.0 is created
Web 2.0 suggests a new version of the World Wide Web, it does not refer to an update to any technical specification, but rather to cumulative changes in the way web pages are made and used. -
Amazon launched its Elastic Compute cloud (EC2)
its a commercial web service that allows small companies and individuals to rent computers on which to run their own computer applications. -
App stores become popular for all devices
An application store (sometimes also referred to as an app store, app marketplace, or variations) is a type of digital distribution platform for application software, often provided as a component of an operating system on a personal computer, smartphone, or tablet. Application stores typically take the form of an online store, where users can browse through different categories and genres of applications (such as for example, productivity , multimedia, and games), view information and reviews. -
iOS is Created
iOS (previously iPhone OS) 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 (September 2007), iPad (January 2010) and second-generation Apple TV (September 2010). Unlike Microsoft's Windows Phone and Google's Android, Apple does not license iOS for installation on non-Apple hardware. -
iPhone is launched
Apple launched its first iPhone. The company described the phone as combining three products into one handheld device: a mobile phone, an iPod and a wireless communication device. One of the original iPhone's more revolutionary features was that it allowed users to command the device using only their fingers on a touch screen. Other new functions included a visual voicemail box, touchpad keyboard, a photo library that could be linked to a remote computer and an almost nine-centimetre display. -
Google Creates Their Apps
Google and other websites create their own browser based apps that help the way we use Google and other websites -
Windows 7 created
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. It was released to manufacturing on July 22, 2009, and became generally available for retail worldwide on October 22, 2009. -
SOPA Bill introduced
The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) is a United States bill introduced by U.S. Representative Lamar S. Smith (R-TX) to expand the ability of U.S. law enforcement to combat online copyright infringement and online trafficking in counterfeit goods.
