Technological events

By gabrielBrobinson

  • DVD

    DVD
    In Beverly Hills, Time Warner and Toshiba held a press conference to announce their version of the DVD for the first time in History. DVD's are important to me because they were a big improvment to VHS.

  • GPS

    GPS
    The Global Positioning System became fully operational. Full Operational Capacity (FOC) was achieved with the placement and activation of the last of the 24 satellites. GPS is a great thing to have when you are driving.

  • Mp3 Player

    Mp3 Player
    Tomislav Uzelac, created the AMP MP3 playback engine. The first MP3 player was invented just in time for the Napster revolution in the form of 1998's Winamp, widely regarded as the first MP3 player. I wouldn't make it a day without my ipod.

  • Kuerig Coffee

    Kuerig Coffee
    Keurig, Incorporated is a world-wide industry leader in single-cup coffee brewing technology. Keurig’s innovative single-cup brewing system lets coffee lovers brew perfect coffee one cup at a time, in less than a minute. This is perfect for me and has made it easier for me to make cofee in the morning.

  • USB

    USB
    Invented by Amir Ban, Dov Moran and Oron Ogdan. The USB is a data storage device that includes flash memory with an integrated Universal Serial Bus USB interface. This device made transfering school work and saving information on the computer much easier for me.

  • X- Box

    X- Box
    Developed by Microsoft, the original Xbox video game console came out. The X box is my favorite vedio game console.

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook was Launched by Mark Zuckerberg while he was attending Harvord University. I use Facebook everyday to stay in contact with my friends

  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley and Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park. The site was created as a destination to watch and share original videos worldwide through the Web. Youtube is a way to get free music, watch movies, or just be entertained with millions of vedeos.

  • Twitter

    Twitter
    Createdby Jack Dorsey and launched that July. The service has over 500 million active users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day. Since its launch, Twitter has become one of the top 10 most visited websites on the Internet. Twitter is a great way to tell people what is going on with your life or just keep busy reading.

  • Jeep Patriot

    Jeep Patriot
    The Jeep Patriot was introduced by Chrysler as the most affordable SUV in the United States. This is my first car and I have found it very reliable.

  • Sources

    sources Sited
    http://www.miqrogroove.com/writing/history-of-dvd/
    http://www.mp3developments.com/article1.php
    http://spxtech.tripod.com/id4.html
    http://inventors.about.com/od/xyzstartinventions/a/YouTube.htm
    http://www.140characters.com/2009/01/30/how-twitter-was-born/
    http://www.keurig.com/in-the-news/2010/~/media/Files/News%20And%20Media%20PDFs/keurig_CoProfile.ashx
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeep_Patriot