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Radio Created
In 1900, Reginald Fessenden made a weak transmission of voice over the airwaves. In 1901, Marconi conducted the first successful transatlantic experimental radio communications
Link:http://public.wsu.edu/~bryan.mclaughlin/Radio/Who_Invented_Radio.html -
First Television
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird employed the Nipkow disk in his prototype video systems. On 25 March 1925, Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London.
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First Video Game Created
In 1958, Physicist William Higinbotham created what is thought to be the first video game. It was a very simple tennis game
Link:https://www.aps.org/publications/apsnews/200810/physicshistory.cfm -
Computer Mouse Invented
The computer mouse was invented in 1964 by Douglas C. Engelbart, he made the mouse 20 years before it was first used
Link:https://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch001083.htm -
Email Invented
Ray Tomlinson is credited with inventing email in 1972.. He picked the @ symbol from the computer keyboard to denote sending messages from one computer to another. He sent the first email to himself
Link:http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120364591 -
First Cell Phone
The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago today. On April 3, 1973, Motorola employee Martin Cooper stood in midtown Manhattan and placed a call to the headquarters of Bell Labs in New Jersey
Link:http://newatlas.com/mobile-pnone-40-year-anniversary-photos/25677/ -
First Personal Computer Created
The first personal computers, introduced in 1973, called the Xerox Alto
Link:http://www.computerhistory.org/revolution/personal-computers/17/297 -
Microsoft Created
Microsoft was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen
Link:https://www.thoughtco.com/microsoft-history-of-a-computing-giant-1991140 -
Apple Computers Born
Apple was created in a garage by Steve Jobs in 1976
Link:http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Apple_Inc. -
Camcorder Invented
Sony released the first consumer camcorder in 1983, the Betamovie BMC-100P
Link:https://www.pddnet.com/blog/2014/08/history-camcorders -
Floppy Disk Created
In 1984, it introduced the high density floppy disk for the PC, which could store 1.2 megabytes of data—capacious at the time -
Internet Created
ARPANET adopted TCP/IP on January 1, 1983, and from there researchers began to assemble the “network of networks” that became the modern Internet. Later, a man named Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web -
WiFi Created
In 1991, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems, under the name WaveLAN. -
Google Invented
Google was Invented in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin after being a research project for 3 years. They were PHD students at Stanford -
Facebook Invented
The Facebook website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.
