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8 mm film is a motion picture film format in which the filmstrip is eight millimeters wide. It exists in two main versions: the original standard 8 mm film, also known as regular 8 mm or Double 8 mm, and Super 8
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The home telephone is the lndline into your house, that you can use to make peronsal calls.
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introdued by olympus.It uses tape to record, with roughly 30 minutes of recording per side of tape at 2.4cm/s.
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Dot matrix printing was the first real home printer or personel use, this printer runs off of a back and forth, up and down motion.
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remote controls moved from wired to infrared in the 1980s
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The CD ROM was created by james Russell. CD ROM stand for Compact Disc Read Only Memory. Info Here
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the first floppy disk was created in 1965, then the second version was in 1976, and finally the 3 inch in 1985.
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scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center were able to transfer 6.7 gigabytes of data (that's the equivalent of two movies on DVD) from Sunnyvale, California to Amsterdam, Netherlands in less than a minute. http://www.informit.com/library/content.aspx?b=Planet_Broadband&seqNum=14
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Wireless internet for laptops was designed for business men to be able to access the internet on oer seas journeys and used to be compatible with specific slots in laptops designed for the wireles internet. Now its just USB plug in.