Technology Progression

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    Technology Progression 1970

  • Pong

    Pong

    Produced by Atari, an American game manufacturer. It helped launch the popularity of video games among the people and get the industry going.
  • Cellphone

    Cellphone

    Created by a small team of people, it was the first handheld phone that was created almost 3 decades after the first mobile phone service was introduced.
  • Digital Camera

    Digital Camera

    Invented by Steven Sasson who worked at Eastman Kodak as an engineer, the digital camera was a self-contained electronic camera which used a charge-coupled device (CCD) image sensor.
  • Apple Computer

    Apple Computer

    Called Apple 1, originally known as "the Apple Computer", it was a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company. Developer Steve Wozniak demonstrated the prototype at the Homebrew Computer Club in Palo Alto, California in July of 1976.
  • Email

    Email

    Invented by a 14 year old who worked in Newark, NJ. It's an online mail system that is used widely today in business or even just among common people to send or receive messages and other media.
  • Portable Music Player

    Portable Music Player

    Originally created in Japan, one of the first portable entertainment players was the Sony Walkman, which allowed users to listen to cassettes wherever they happened to be. It didn't come to the Americas until June of 1980.