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Around the early 1920s, commercial radio broadcasting was released to the public when the US broadcasted KDKA's presidential election in November 1920. -
The first successful Demonstration of a fully electronic Television was in 1927 by Philo Farnsworth. Later in 1932 commercial Cathode ray tube televisions were manufactured in Germany by Telefunken. -
The first electric guitar was invented in 1931 by George Beauchamp. He called it his "frying pan" because of the shape. He and his coworker Paul Barth, they got the product produced by Adolph Rickenbacker's company. -
The FM radio was invented by American engineer
Edwin Armstrong, and the FM radio was patented in 1933. The AM radio was has been out since 1906, but FM radio allows for better sound quality with a wider bandwidth and less static noise from storms. -
The cable TV system, created by Robert Tarlton, was released to the public in 1948. It is a community antenna television (CATV) service to bring television to homes in areas with poor broadcasting reception. -
John Logie Baird and Vladimir K. Zworykin in the 1920s and 1930s invented the colour CRT television, and it was a multi-stage process. Mass production of the colour CRT was introduced by RCA in 1954. -
The first commercial transistor radio, the Regency TR-1, was introduced in late 1954, making portable music widely available for the first time. -
The metal oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (MOSFET) was invented by Mohamed Atalla and Dawon Kahng at Bell Labs in 1959. They successfully demonstrated a working device in 1960, leading to the first commercial MOSFETs appearing in 1964. -
More television channels became available in the 1960s primarily through the growth of cable television and specialized networks, alongside the increasing availability of colour broadcasting and the launch of National Educational Television (NET) -
The audio cassette, or Compact Cassette, was developed by Lou Ottens and his team at the Dutch company Philips in 1962. It was introduced to the public at the Berlin Radio Show in August 1963 -
The floppy disk was invented by IBM in 1971, with the first 8-inch read-only disk and drive being the IBM 23FD Minnow, originally used to load microcode. IBM released a read/write version in 1973, and the technology quickly became a widely adopted standard for data storage and software distribution in computers. -
The concept of the personal computer (PC) emerged in the early 1970s, with the Kenbak-1 (1971) and the Micral N (1973) being early examples. However, the commercial success and widespread recognition of PCs began with the MITS Altair 8800 in 1974, and was further cemented by the 1981 release of the IBM PC. -
CDs were invented by Sony and Philips and were first released in Japan in October 1982, with a broader market introduction the following year. The technology was developed by these two companies to create a digital optical disc format for storing audio, which eventually became known as the Compact Disc (CD). -
The Nintendo Game Boy was released in Japan on April 21, 1989, and in North America on July 31, 1989. It was followed by releases in other territories in 1990 and became a revolutionary, best-selling handheld console despite its monochrome screen. -
The first digital camera prototype was invented by Steve Sasson at Kodak in 1975, while the first commercially available consumer digital camera was the Dycam Model 1 (also known as the Logitech Fotoman) released in 1990. The technology quickly progressed, with more affordable models like the Apple QuickTake 100 appearing by 1994, and digital cameras quickly becoming mainstream throughout the late 1990s. -
The World Wide Web was released to the public domain by CERN on April 30, 1993. This decision, made by the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), made the web software royalty-free and open-source, sparking an explosion of new websites, tools, and platforms that made the internet accessible to everyone. -
The Sharp J-SH04, released in Japan in November 2000 by J-Phone, is widely considered the first mass-market camera phone. However, the first commercial camera phone was the Kyocera Visual Phone VP-210, which was released earlier in May 1999. Before these, Philippe Kahn created a working camera phone and took the first photo of his daughter in 1997, which he shared on public networks. -
USB flash drives were first released commercially in the year 2000, with some sources mentioning IBM as one of the first to sell 8-MB capacity drives, while others cite Trek 2000's ThumbDrive as an early device unveiled at a trade fair. These early USB drives offered a portable, rewritable, and durable solution for data storage, replacing older technologies like floppy disks. -
Wikipedia was officially released on January 15, 2001, launched by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger as a free-content online encyclopedia that uses wiki software to allow for collaborative editing and content creation. -
The first iPod was introduced by Apple on October 23, 2001, and went on sale on November 10, 2001. This portable media player, a revolutionary device at the time, was marketed with the slogan "1,000 songs in your pocket". -
The iPad was introduced by Apple CEO Steve Jobs on January 27, 2010, and the first-generation Wi-Fi model was released in the United States on April 3, 2010, followed by the Wi-Fi + 3G model on April 30, 2010. -
Instagram was released on October 6, 2010, focusing on photo and video sharing. While Instagram is a well-known social media platform, the first social media site, SixDegrees.com, was launched in 1997, and other platforms like Facebook and Twitter were established earlier in the 2000s. -
AI's rise in popularity has multiple key periods, with a major spike in 2023 due to generative AI and a significant surge throughout the 2010s as deep learning improved AI capabilities for mainstream applications like digital assistants and predictive algorithms. -
The Apple Vision Pro launched in the United States on February 2, 2024, and in other countries later that year, starting at $3,499. It functions as a spatial computer for augmented and virtual reality, featuring a 3D interface controlled by eyes, hands, and voice. Key aspects include dual 4K displays, a digital crown for AR/VR blending, the M2 and R1 chips, and compatibility with iOS and visionOS apps.