The History of ICT and Computing

  • First Computer Ever Invented Ever

    First Computer Ever Invented Ever
    English mathematician Charles Babbage conceives of a steam-driven calculating machine that would be able to compute tables of numbers. The project however, funded by the English government, is a failure
  • First Phone Ever Invented Ever

    First Phone Ever Invented Ever
    Inventing the Telephone. “Mr. Watson, come here, I want you.” With these words, spoken by inventor Alexander Graham Bell into his experimental telephone on March 10, 1876, an industry was born. This was the first spoken sentence ever transmitted via electricity as this was cutting edge technology.
  • The First 3D Movie

    The First 3D Movie
    The earliest confirmed 3D film shown to an out-of-house audience was The Power of Love, which premiered at the Ambassador Hotel Theater in Los Angeles on 27 September 1922. They have recently become much more popular driven by 'imax' and disiney.
  • Television Invented

    Television Invented
    First commercially available in very crude form on an experimental basis in the late 1920s, then popularized in greatly improved form shortly after World War II, the television set has become commonplace in homes, businesses, and institutions, particularly as a vehicle for entertainment, advertising, and news. Invented by John Logie Baird.
  • First Video Game Ever Invented

    First Video Game Ever Invented
    In 1952, A.S. Douglas wrote his PhD degree at the University of Cambridge on Human-Computer interraction. Douglas created the first graphical computer game - a version of Tic-Tac-Toe. The game was programmed on a EDSAC vaccuum-tube computer, which had a cathode ray tube display.
  • Internet Invented

    Internet Invented
    The team who got the initial credit: Elmer Shapiro, Steve Carr, Steve Crocker, Jeff Rulifson, and Ron Stoughton, Paul Baran, Thomas Marill, Lawrence Roberts and Barry Wessler. Company: Network Working Group (NWG) held its first meeting chaired by Elmer Shapiro with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI).
  • Microsoft Company Founded

    Microsoft Company Founded
  • Pacman

    Pacman
    Pac-Man is an arcade game developed by Namco and first released in Japan on May 22, 1980
  • First Laptop Ever Invented Ever

    First Laptop Ever Invented Ever
    As the personal computer (PC) became feasible in 1971, the idea of a portable personal computer followed. The idea was imagined by Alan Kay in 1968, The first laptops using the flip form factor appeared in the early 1980s. The 'Dulmont Magnum' was released in Australia in 1981–82, but was not marketed internationally until 1984–85.
  • 'G'`

    'G'`
    3G, short form of third Generation, is the third generation of mobile telecommunications technology. 1G systems were introduced in 1981/1982. The first 3G networks were introduced in 1998 and fourth generation "4G" networks in 2008.
  • Fifa

    Fifa
    When the series began in late 1993, it was notable for being the first to have an official licence from FIFA. First game was fifa 95.
  • First Computer Animated Film

    First Computer Animated Film
    Computer animation, or CGI animation, is the process used for generating animated images by using computer graphics. The first feature-length computer animated film was the 1995 movie Toy Story by Pixar.
  • First ipod Invented

    First ipod Invented
    The iPod is a line of portable media players designed and marketed by Apple Inc. The first line was released on October 23, 2001, about 8½ months after iTunes (Macintosh version) was released. iTunes is a media player, media library, and mobile device management application. '1000 tunes in your pocket!'
  • Spotift Founded

    Spotift Founded
    Spotify was launched in October 2008 by Swedish startup Spotify AB. Spotify is a commercial music streaming service providing digital rights management-restricted content from record labels including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal. Music can be browsed or searched by artist, album, genre, playlist, or record label.
  • Twitter launched

    Twitter launched
    Creators: Evan Williams, Noah Glass, Jack Darsey
  • Live Streaming

    Live Streaming
    Livestream was cofounded as Mogulus in 2007 by Max Haot and spme others in New York. Project idea was formed in 2008. In September 2009, Livestream started providing custom channel pages to stream events like concerts from Kina Grannis and Pixie Lott.
  • Official Complaint made against Facebook

    Official Complaint made against Facebook
    The Electronic Privacy Information Center and 14 other consumer protection groups lodged a formal complaint against Facebook with the Federal Trade Commission.
  • Instagram Invented

    Instagram Invented
    Instagram is an online mobile photo-sharing, video-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures and videos, and share them on a variety of other social networking sites. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012.
  • Snapchat Invented

    Snapchat Invented
    Snapchat was started by Brown and Spiegel as a project for one of Spiegel's classes at Stanford University.
  • iphone eye

    iphone eye
  • iCube launched

    iCube launched
    Designed by Mollie Dibb
  • iMirror

    iMirror
    Designed by Mollie Dibb
    Idealsim by Charlotte Silvester
  • Everone wears built in ear pieces

    Everone wears built in ear pieces
    Attatches to our brains