Technology Timeline

  • Television introduced to American public

    AT New York World's Fair, television was indroduced to the American public
  • First Computer

    The first computer was invented by a German engineer named Konrad Zuse. The computer was used to help design German airplanes and missils.
  • 98 TV stations

    By January of 1949, there are 98 television stations.
  • Color TV

    Color TV arrives in the US.
  • TV surpasses Newspaper

    For the first time, TV surpasses newspaper as an information source.
  • First Laptops

    In the 1970s, the first laptop computer was released.
  • First Email

    The first email was delivered.
  • First video game console

    The first video game console was released by Ralph Baer, Bill Harrison and Bill Rusch called the Magnavox Odyssey
  • First Call on Cellphone

    The first call was made on a cell phone in Manhattan.
  • Apple Corporation

    Jobs and Wozniak founded the Apple Corporation.
  • Motorola produced first cell phone

    Motorola produced 8000X, the first commercial portable phone.
  • Apple Computer

    Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs, and others co-invented the Apple Macintosh Computer.
  • World Wide Web

    The world wide web was created by Tim Berners-Lee.
  • 98% of Households have at least 1 TV set

    In 98% of American households, there are at least 1 TV set, possibly more.
  • PlayStation Console

    The first play station console was introduced in Japan.
  • The web has a million sites

    In 1997, the world wide web reached a million sites.
  • Google

    Google was invented by Larry Page, Sergey Brin
  • Wikipedia launced

    Wikipedia was launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger
  • Apple indroduced iTunes

    In 2003, apple introduced the online music service of iTunes to the public.
  • MySpace

    In the fall of 2003, MySpace was created.
  • Facebook

    Facebook was created.
  • Youtube created

    In 2005, youtube began its storing and retrieving videos.
  • Twitter

    Twitter was created in March 2006.
  • iPhone

    Apple released the first iPhone.
  • 3D movies and tv

    3D movies and television becomes popular and commonly used.