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Technology in my Lifetime
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First website goes online at CERN
Berner-Lee, a scientist at CERN in Geneva, post a summary of the World Wide Web project on a message board, inviting people to collaborate. Marks beginning of World Wide Web being publicly available on the Internet, though new users could not join until August 23. -
IBM releases first smartphone
Selling 50,000 units, the IBM Simon combined a handheld cellular phone with a touchscreen PDA display. It could make and receive calls; compose and receive E-mails; visit cellular wepages; receive faxes; and contained applications, such as a calendar, address book, appointment scheduler, world clock, note pad, and stylus keyboard. -
Google.com domain registered
Larry Page and Sergey Yin, PhD. students at Stanford University, began developing Google in 1996 as a research project. They developed the technology PageRank, which analyzed relatioships between websites by determining the relevance of a website the number and imortance of pages which link back to the original website. Other search engines simply counted the number of times a queried string showed up on a page. Originally, Google was incoroporated in 1998. -
First major webcast over the Internet
Secret fashion show is first major webcast done of the Internet. Over 1.5 million people visit broadcast website. So popular, not everyone could watch it that wanted to due to servers not being able to handle volume of traffic.
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Apple unveils iPod music player
Apple Computers publicly unveils their digital music player, the iPod. Designed under project code name Dulcimer by Tony Fadell. Apple polished GUI and addes the now famous scrolling feauture. Goes on to become the best selling mp3 player in history. iTunes Store goes live in 2003. -
Facebook launched by Mark Zuckerberg
Created by Mark Zuckerberg and friends at Harvard for way of Ivy League students to share information with friends. Eventually spread to more campuses nationwide. Quickly becomes most popular social media platform reaching 1.18 billion monthly users as of August 2015. -
YouTube launched
YouTube created by three former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim. Marketed as cutting-edge video sharing service. In November 2006, Google bought YouTube LLC for $1.65 BILLION. It is now the 4th most visited website on the internet behind Google, Facebook, and Yahoo!, but the most popular video sharng service. -
Apple releases original iPhone
After much speculatin and rumors, Steve Jobs announces iPhone at Keynote on January 9, 2007. Customers camped outside of stores night before to await release, which was unprescedented for a cell phone. First widely accessible smartphone that acted as more of a handheld computer than a phone and had the user use touch, rather than a stylus or keyboard/mouse to operate it. Features included: visual voicemail, multi-touch gestures, HTML email, Safari web browser, threaded SMS messenging & YouTube. -
Apple announces iPad
Apple announces iPad tablet PC. Features Apple A4 processor, 9.7" touch screen, can play music, browse the web, send and receive E-mails and Apple iMessages (text sent over Wi-Fi), and SMS messages w/ cellular service, play games, GPS, and access to App Store. Starts wave of tablet PCs. -
IBM SyNAPSE chip announced
Neuromorphic cognitive computer designed to be like mammalian brain. Highest transistor count of any chip, as of 2014 at 5.4 billion. Chip functions on biological level, adjusting connection between "neurons." Uses less power than other chips and could be used to create AI. -
Toyota Mirai fuel cell car
Future: Unveiled in November 2014 at LA Auto Show. Production expected for end of 2015. Utilizes hydrogen fuel cell which only emits water as biproduct. Current concept version goes 0 to 60 in 9 seconds with the ability to go 312 miles on full tank. Currently most efficent hydrogen cell vehicle to be produced.
