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Home Telephone
The home phone was invented, by Alexander Graham Bell in 1861. The cell phone was invented by, Martin Cooper in 1983. -
8mm Home Video Camera
The standard 8 mm (also known as regular 8) film format was developed by the Eastman Kodak company during the Great Depression and released on the market in 1932 to create a home movie format that was less expensive than 16 mm. -
Dot Matrix Printer
In 1953, the first high-speed printer was developed by Remington-Rand for use on the Univac computer, while the first dot matrix printer was marketed by IBM, in 1957, the same year that the dye-sublimation printer entered the market. -
Microcassette Voice Recorder
Olympus released the first micro cassette recorder in 1969. During initial sales the recorder failed to achieve success as it was competing against the Philips minicassette recorder which was a complete machine without the attachment modules needed by the Zuiko. The recorder is rare as it was not manufactured in great numbers and manufacturing and sales were stopped, as the recorder was put back into further development. In 1970 the company changed it -
Floppy Disk
The original floppy was an 8 inch, single sided disk first developed in the late 1960's as a result of research efforts by IBM. In 1971, IBM completed the first "memory disk", as it was called then, or the "floppy disk" as it is known today. They cost more than a new PC costs today. -
Home Cable Modem
The earliest known cable modem was introduced in 1979. This was known as a cable RF Modem. However, cable modems as we know them today, were not introduced until the 1990s. -
CD Rom
James Russell thought of it in 1965 while working for Pacific Northwest National Laboratory, operated by Battelle Memorial Institute for the U. S. Department of Energyy. Sony and Philips licensed it, established a proprietary Optical Digital Recording (ODR) format for audio called “Compact Disc” (CD), and delivered a commercial product in 1982, followed in 1985 with a related ODR format for data called CD-ROM. -
VHS Remote (Jog Dial)
Somewhen between 1989 and 1993 Daniel S. Venolia of Apple developed another mouse prototype with a thumb-wheel accessible on the side;[2] it was filed for patent in 1992 as U.S. Patent 5,313,230. It was granted in 1994. -
Wireless Internet
In 1991 Wi-Fi was invented by NCR Corporation in Nieuwegein, the Netherlands. Initially meant for cashier systems the first wireless products were brought on the market under the name WaveLAN with speeds of 1Mbps/2Mbps.
