Technology Timeline

  • 2-way

    The first two-way telephone conversation takes place
  • Cellphone

    Cellphone
    First cellphone call is made by Martin Cooper, who worked for Motorola
  • Laptop

    Laptop
    The IBM 5100 is the first portable computer. The computer weighed 55 pounds.
  • Printer

    Hewlett-Packard introduced a printer using its thermal inkjet printing technology.
  • Powerpoint

    Powerpoint
  • WWW.

    WWW.
    World Wide Web is created by Tim Berners-Lee
  • First commercial Internet dial-up access provider comes online

    The World, the first commercial Internet dial-up access provider comes online. Dial-up Internet access is a form of Internet access via telephone lines.
  • E-mail

    Email comes around in the 1960's, but really takes off in 199
  • Google

    Google
    Google is founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin
  • Y2K

    Panic erupts in America as people begin to believe that the year 2000 will mark the end of the world. This time of dread led to many predictions of how the advancement of technology would be our down fall.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
  • Ultrabooks

    Ultrabooks
    Handheld computers that are easier to use with a touchscreen instead of using a mouse.
  • 3D printing

    Personal 3D Printing is currently reserved for those with extremely large bank accounts or equally large understandings about 3D printing; but by 2015, printing in three dimensions will become a common practice in the household and in schools.