Technology timeline

  • Camera phone introduced

    Japans soft bank introduces the first camera phone, the j phone, a sharp manufactured digital phone with an inter grated camera. Cameras became a significant pet of every phone in the next year.
  • One laptop per child initiative

    At the 2006 world economic forum in Davos, Switzerland , the United Nations development program announced it will deliver technology services globally and too developing countries. By 2011 over 2.4 million laptops were shipped.
  • Amazon kindle

    Many companies tried to release electronic reading systems dating back to the early 1990s. However, the kindle gained a large following, it was so popular it was delayed on shipping and didn’t have enough of them.
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    iPhone / iMac

    Obviously we all have one and the iPhone was revolutionary creating apps, music, games, cellluar all on one pocket held device.
  • IBM’s Roadrunner supercomputer is completed

    The roadrunner is the first computer to reach a sustained performance of 1 petaflop. It used two different micro processors.the main chip in this computer later goes on to be the Maine processor in the ps4. Pretty funny.