The History of ICT and computing

  • The 1st computer

    The 1st computer
    The first ever basic computer was called the Difference Engine and was invented in 1822 by Charles Babbage. his son Henry helped him in his research. His "computer" looked like e huge mechanical machine and could solve simple math equations. But since it was a mechanical computer, and most of our computers of today are all electric, it isnt considered as the first computer, but it was a start to something. Wikipedia
  • First movie

    First movie
    The first movies were 1 minute long black and white non sound clips, just made for fun, until more and more people loved it and then in the 1900s movies were with voices in the backgrounds, and then the scenes were sometimes painted to make it colorful, which lead to more cinema companies which lead to the start of real cinematography. Wikipedia
  • First 3D movie

    First 3D movie
    The first 3D movie was held in the Astra theater in New York. However it wasnt a big success due to the movie's plot getting ruined by the attention to the 3D. Though many more movies were produced and 3D was augmented therefore making better movies. Wikipedia
  • First Sat Nav

    First Sat Nav
    The first ever Sat Nav was used by the american naval intelingence (ANI) by transit in the early 1960s.
    It was used to determine their location by putting a small electronic chip inside a COM tower on a ship or small vessel and satelites would receive that chip's location and give the coordinates to the ship, therefore creating the first Sat Nav.
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  • 1st computer game

    1st computer game
    pong was the 1st computer game to reach popularity. It was a simple 2D tennis game which one person had to defeat the other by scoring the most points. It was released by Alan Alcorn in 1972, and is the basics of modern video games such as FIFA. Wikipedia
  • First emails

    First emails
    The first Electronic mail or most commonly used as e-mail was sent in the period of summer of 1993. The US military were testing a new way to contact their soldiers and they created the e-mail. Wikipedia
  • PS1 invented

    The first ever PS1 was invented in japan by Sony. It was supposed to be the first and best video console to the date.
    There have been more PS's including PSP's but this ws the BIG thing for that date. Wikipedia
  • 1st computer animated movie

    1st computer animated movie
    Toy Story 1 was the 1st ever movie completely made by computers. It had largely overated all previous animated movies who were all hand drawn, creating an all new era of cinematography. Wikipedia
  • Facebook invented

    Facebook invented
    facebook is the most popular social website and app used in the world. Mark Zuckerberg was its creator, publishing it to apple in 2005, shortly after its release.
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  • Youtube created

    Youtube created
    The first youtuber was also the first worker at home in the 21st century. He's an american young man who lives in California, which is also the Youtube headquarters, previously owned by Google. Wikipedia
  • When was the first online maps

    Google maps was the first website to be put online to find your and everyone elses location. It has many features and is becoming more and more popular because of its high graphics.
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  • Xbox invented

    Xbox invented
    Xbox was released in 2005 by Microsoft to be the best ever game console and to succeed the mighty PS2. There were many games only played on Xbox so that meant that the number of units sold was huge, making the PS2 very jealous... Wikipedia
  • Twitter invented

    Twitter invented
    Twitter was invented in March 2006 by jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Bizz Stone, and Noah Glass.
    It was so famous that in 2012, there were 100 million users.
    In 2013, it was called the SMS of the Internet.
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  • First e-ticket bought

    The first e- ticket bought online was in july 2008, because it was thought to be more efficent and paper saving. E-tickets are tickets that have been printed onto a phone, so that instead of giving the ticket we show our phone to the staff and they can check it.It was a major success because it was so popular and easier.
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  • Insatgram invented

    Insatgram invented
    Instagram is a photo/video sharing and texting website and app, invented by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
    there were over 100 million users in april 2012!
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  • First 4G phone

    First 4G phone
    The first 4G phone was an American Sprint HTC phone. it ws released in 2011, but had to be stopped because of its bad efficience. Wikipedia
  • Social network Records

    Social network Records
    In 2012, Instagram, facebook, AND Twitter all had over 100 million users across the world, with 34% in the US.
    Social network is so popular, that we spend on average 2 hours a day just texting on social networks.
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  • Next gen. games

    Next gen. games
    Xbox One are releseing Halo 5 in December 2014. The long awaited game is going to be an all new 60frame per second High grafics game, and it will all be in 1080p min!!! Youtube.