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The television was a game breaker in the world of media and the world entirely. To this day tvs are a huge part of media and are used on a large scale. The technology of tvs continues to grow making them greater with the more time that goes by. the Baird Television Development Company were the ones that first created the tv and it was made in Germany. -
The car radio was invented to allow people to enjoy a song of their liking on their long drive to work or wherever they are going. It was the precursor to Motorola, Galvin Manufacturing Corp, that introduced the first mass market car radio. With this they started to mass produce them into every car that was being made until they became a common place in a car that people expect to have when they buy one. -
The Electronic computer allowed for the world of media to take great advances. With the creation of the computer many other ideas were sparked and many platforms were created on the computer. It was first expected to have been invented in England 1943 then later again in US in 1945. It is believed that the first electronic computers were the colossus, but there are some grey areas around this from what I have seen. -
The credit card was the start of a great movement towards digital money. Up to this point all money would have been physical and you would have had to keep it on you. Now with the credit card you could have all your money inside a little card locked behind passwords and banks. Diners' Club, Inc. were the ones to create the first universal credit card and later American Express Company in 1958 created a travel card. -
Video game consoles are one of my favorite inventions made ever. They are a genius idea created and are very fun to use. In the 1960's a beautiful brown console called the “Brown Box” created by inventor Ralph Baer started the video game console trend. With this inventions big companies like Sony, Microsoft and Nintendo got into the industry later and created some of the best consoles known. -
Floppy disk were introduced in the 1970s as another way of storing information. There had been other ways of doing this before this point, but the floppy disk became very popular when it was announced. The floppy disk was invented by IBM engineers led by Alan Shugart in the year 1971 and were made to replace tape drives. Their plan was to make a more effective way of transferring and storing digital information as the world was switching to a place of technology. -
Satellite tv became popular in the 1980s. There had been many broadcasts and shows played on the tvs in the 1970s, but the 1980s is when it really took off. Tv became a common house hold appliance within a very short period of time. In the current day it would be odd to find a household that does not own at least one screen. Television opened to world to a whole new form of entertainment and of course media. -
Nintendo is probably known as the most popular and well known gaming system. People all around the world buy their consoles even though they are extremely expensive. Nintendo first started out in Japan and continues to strive there to the current day. They even built a Nintendo land which is basically the Japanese version of Disney Land. The NES is one of their greatest consoles. -
The WWW might stand to be one of the greatest inventions ever created in history. The WWW to this day is arguably the most useful tool a person can have. With it you can learn almost is not everything. Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web(WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. This invention was originally made for scientist across the world to communicate and share their ideas to help create a breakthrough in science. Then became popular in the 1991 for common people. -
Sony which is now known as one of the top three gaming companies in the world started to get popular with the release of their first PlayStation. Sony had been a company for many years at this point, but became popular because of this console. Ken Kutaragi was the genius behind this console and basically made Sony as his idea is what made them become so successful. -
Microsoft another one of the top three gaming companies in the current day released their first big console in 2001. Microsoft before this had been known for the software they create and not hardware meaning that doing this was a big gamble for the company. With that being said they followed through with it and it became a success. To this day people still buy the updated xboxs from their company. -
Twitter was a media platform that took the world by storm. Twitter was one of the platforms that started the whole movement for social media along with Facebook. Without them this world might have looked very different then it does now. Billions of people have at least one social media account in the current day. Twitter was designed in 2006 by Evan Williams and Biz Stone, who each worked at Google before leaving to launch the podcasting venture Odeo. -
Nintendo were also the creators of this console. This console was the greatest console they made. Up till a few weeks ago the wii had the most sales out of all of their consoles. The wii was well loved by all for the games they had on the wii and the features it added. With the wii they added motion controls which people loved. -
Virtual Reality had been a concept for decades at this point, but become commercially available in the 2010s. VR became popular as companies like Sony began to make games for the device. You would put the headgear on and would be put into the game. Although the technology was quite expensive at first people loved the idea and it quickly grew in popularity. Until the point where you could buy a console that came with its own packaged VR set. -
The Xbox Series X which is the current version of the Xbox and is a masterpiece. The Xbox also allows for the same game breaking things to be done with games and what I like about the Xbox the most is the Halo edition one. The Halo edition Xbox has secrets hidden on the Xbox only fans could find out. If you use a black light on the Xbox you can find secret symbols hidden on it. This for me is one of the coolest things they could have done with it. -
The ps5 which is the current Ps made by Sony is an amazing console. This piece of hardware changed the world of games for console players. With this device game develpopers were now able to make even greater games than ever before and they would still run properly. Also they created the most genius controller I have ever seen. I won't get into details, but the remote even tracks your heart rate. Ps5 even 2 years later are still impossible to find as they sell out.