Technology Advances In My Lifetime

By kfitz22

  • JPEG

    JPEG
    The jpeg was developed in 1994 which revolutionized the way people took and received pictures. It changed my life by making me view pictures online much more than anywhere else.

  • Digital Camera

    Digital Camera
    The first ever digital camera was created in 1994 and cameras have been so very useful ever since in capturing many of my greatest memories and in order to remember people I love that have gone.

  • Windows 95

    Windows 95
    It impacted my life because I used this techonolgy to go on the internet during the early ages of my life.

  • MP3

    The MP3 was patented by the U.S. government this year. This impacted my life majorly, seeing that I now download music all the time by getting it in MP3 format.

  • Google

    Google
    Google was released during this month in 1998 for the first time as a beta and it was alrady receiving 10,000 searches a day. It revolutionized my life because I use it everyday to look things up.

  • Blackberry

    Blackberry
    The first ever Blackberry was released in 1999 and that is not my current phone and so as you can see it heavily impacts my life as a great technological advance that helps me stay in contact with others.

  • WiFi

    Wifi was invented on this day by apple and has impacted my life very heavily ever since. It is the only way that I am able to receiver internet from different places on my laptop without plugging in to internet.

  • iTunes

    iTunes
    iTunes was created in 2001 and this was the first time people could stream music on their computer and eventually even by music online and also transfer it to your iPod which has become such an important thing in my life.

  • DVR

    The DVR was invented during this year and now heavily impacts my life. I use this daily to watch shows that I have recorded that I didn't have the time to catch.

  • Youtube

    Youtube was created during this month in 2005 and now impacts my life very much due to the fact that I am on youtube all the time watching random videos.

  • Sources

    http://gcn.com/Articles/2007/12/06/25-years--A-technology-timeline.aspx?Page=3# http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventions/a/google.htm http://www.applematters.com/article/july-21-2002-wifi-introducedby-apple/ http://www.xconomy.com/seattle/2009/12/21/top-five-tech-advances-of-the-past-decade/ http://www.forbes.com/2009/08/17/rim-apple-sweeny-intelligent-technology-blackberry.html http://www.michaelmccurry.net/2009/12/26/2000-2009-a-decade-of-technology-innovation-in-review/