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the first radio was invented by Guglielmo Marconi, Italian inventor and radio pioneer, and he was the first person to send and receive Morse code signals.
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The Collosus was the first electronic programmable computer and was developed by Tommy Flowers and first demonstrated in December 1943. It was created to help British code breakers read encrypted German messages during the second World War.
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German born engineer, Ralph Baer and his co-workers designed the first video game console to work on a standard television.
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Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer in 1975 with the Altair 8800.
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A Boeing 747-200 christened Maiden Voyager operated the first Virgin Atlantic scheduled flight.
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The first sat-nav was made in 1986 by a man called John Smith. A sat-nav guides you to a destination that you may never have been to before by using the position of global satellites to pinpoint a specific location. A sat-nav receives signals from several satellites at any one time to find your exact position and plan your route.
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Nintendo scores its second smash hit with the introduction of the game boy. The first major handheld console, Game boy featured a black and white LCD screen.
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The first service was between Warteloo station in London, Gare du-Nord in Paris and Brussels-South Station railway station in Brussels.
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First iPod released by Apple Inc. Steve Jobs brought out the first line of iPods, the latest line were announced on 12th September 2012. iPods are used as external storage devices for music, photos, videos, games, contact information, e-mail settings, web bookmarks and calendars.
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Skype is a free IM, Video Chat and Voice Chat service developed by four Estonians. It had 663 million users as of 2010.
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Facebook was co-created by Mark Zuckerburg in his Harvard dorm-room. In January 2009 Facebook was ranked the world's most used social networking site.
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Aliens of the Deep was the first 3D film released in the United States, directed by James Cameron. Its run time was 47 minutes.
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YouTube is a video sharing website and is based in San Bruno, California. Most of the content is uploaded by individuals, but large media corporations like BBC, VEVO, CBS and Hulu use it to broadcast their material.
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Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, then was released by July. It has 500,000,000 (million) registered as of 2012.
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Tumblr is a social networking site that allows you to share short blogs and other forms of multimedia.
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BBC iPlayer is a TV catch up service that you can access via the internet. The original iPlayer was released in 2005 as a beta-test, then the new look version was launched in 2008. The marketing slogan was "Making the unmissable, unmissable."
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Instagram is a fast way to share photos on other social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape.
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Tablets will be affordable for everone, We won't need wires for anything and everything will be sent over the internet.
