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1947 and the first appliances were 1.8m tall, weighed 340kg
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The first compact cassette tapes were launched in 1962
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Apollo 11 landed on the moon in 1969
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Motorola demonstrated the first ever mobile phone in 1973
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The invention of the CD in 1980 by the joint efforts of Sony
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This is all down to Sir Tim Berners-Lee, who in 1989 was working as a software engineer for CERN. He realised the potential of linking computers together and how to achieve it, so it was useful and accessible.
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First smart phone came out in 1999
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It was still another four years though until the first flash drive stick was invented and made available in 2000 with a hefty at the time storage capacity of 8 Megabytes.
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1969 system originally invented as a countermeasure by the Americans in the event of a nuclear attack.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ARPANET
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