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sptunik reaches orbit
the launch of sputnik in 1957 launched what is now called in retrospect as the space race, which helped push space exploreation and the technology to suppourt it to great new highs. -
the compact cossette was invented by Phillips
the compact cassette was a massively popular data medium that was massively helpfull in spreading music, computer files, videos, and programs in a small compact medium to the masses. -
first words from the moon
The words first words from the moon where sent from the moon via a Motorola radio transponder, that sent the famous words back to the earth to be spread across the world. -
man landed on the moon
man finally left teh comfort of it's natural home to explore and to final set foot on a new world. the moon landing helped to inspire and push inventors and the populus and be inlarge the market for greater technological advancements. -
First email was sent
the first email that was sent over the internet. this will start a better faster and much more efficent way of sending information between each other. -
ethernet standard introduced
Ethernet today is teh leading standard of network connectivity. when it was created it had to compete with token rings and token bus standards and at the time and somewhat still superiour methods but with great marketing and a relitivly virgin mareket brought this standard to the king of the internet. -
foundation of microsoft
microsoft being the massive software and hardware manufacture that it is has single handedly changed the way that a majority of the world operates from our business to our everyday lives. -
compact dics
compacts discs where codeveloped by sony and phillips. This medium much like the cassette was very popular for music, video, coputer files, programs, and anything else that can be fit and formated onto it. -
E0 takes it's first steps
on of the early bi-pedal robots designated E0 takes it;s first steps and help reaserchers undderstand the fundimentals of bipedal motion. this informations help development from 1986 all the way up to 2007 with the lastest version of ASIMO -
hubble space teloscope launched
the huble space teloscope one of the greatest teloscopes biult by man. the hubble has sent us many pictures from the undistorted vastness of space each one helping humanity learn more about the planets, solar system, galixcy, and the universe we call home. -
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the great and mighty internet
around this time period of the late 1990's the internet started to gain popularity and was starting to be widely used by the masses. and in just a few short years the internet became the biggest source of information in the world. the internet has alound humanity to spread our knowelege with each other to the far ends of the eath to beter our understanding of teh world around us and the things that we wish to bring into the world. -
first multicore microprocessor
the Power4 micro processor at its time was blowing everything else away with amazing speed and processing power. the main advantage it had over other chips was the 4 central core to help distribute load across teh chip. -
Blu-ray
with computer adavceing and tha capabilities of the computers rapidly expanding the aging cd could no longer store the required information needed to run a single program, whatch a movie, or back up a system. a new format for storage was needed to help store this new bound of information. thus came blu-ray thus named for the blue laser used to read the disc. blu-ray today is pushing a storage capacity of up to 50gb per disc.
