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First Computer Invented
Invented by Charles Babbage and called the 'Difference Engine'. -
First sound film
The Dickson Experimental Sound Film is a film made by William Kennedy-Laurie Dickson (1860-1935) in late 1894 or early 1895. It is the first known film with sound -
First feature length colour film
Cupid Angling is the first feature length colour movie. -
First TV invented
Was the first TV sold in mass -
First Electronic Computer
Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer was the first electronic general-purpose computer. -
First feature 3D film is released
Toted as the world's first feature-length 3D movie, Bwana Devil is released in the USA and heralds a short-lived boom in 3D movie production. -
First Computer Mouse
The computer mouse as we know it today was invented and developed by Douglas Englebart during the 60's. -
Internet Invented
The internet was invented in 1969 for the American Army and made public in 1973. -
First Email Sent
late 1971, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message. They were just a few test messages. -
First headphones created
Headphones originated from the earpiece, and were the only way to listen to electrical audio signals before amplifiers were developed. -
First video console released
The Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console, released in 1972. -
First use of digitized images
Westworld - First use of 2D computer digitized images as part of a feature film (infrared point of view of Gunslinger robot in Westworld). -
Microsoft Founded
Microsoft Corporation is an American multinational software corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services related to computing -
First Apple Product
The Apple I, Apple's first product, was sold as an assembled circuit board and lacked basic features such as a keyboard, monitor, and case. -
First CGI film titles
Superman had the first CGI film titles -
First CGI character
Looker - First CGI human character, Cindy. First use of shaded 3D CGI as we think of it today. -
First Internet Game 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. -
First Website
It was August 6, 1991, at a CERN facility in the Swiss Alps, when 36-year-old physicist Tim Berners-Lee published the first-ever website. -
Yahoo! founded
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational internet corporation headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is widely known for its web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! -
First Commerical Webcam
First developed in 1991, a webcam was pointed at the Trojan Room coffee pot in the Cambridge University Computer Science Department. The camera was finally switched off on August 22, 2001. The final image captured by the camera can still be viewed at its homepage. The oldest webcam still operating is FogCam at San Francisco State University, which has been running continuously since 1994. -
Google.com is registered as a domain
Google Inc. is an American multinational corporation specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include search, cloud computing, software and Internet advertising technologies. Most of its profits derive from AdWords. -
First blackberry device
The first blackberyy device, the 850, was introduced in 1999 as a two-way pager in Munich, Germany. -
Sims launched
The first, original, Sims was launched on this date. The latest Sims (3) was released in 2012. -
Wikipedia started
The earliest known proposal for an online encyclopedia was made by Rick Gates in 1993, but the concept of an open source web-based online encyclopedia was proposed by Richard Stallman around 1999. Wikipedia was formally launched on 15 January 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger. -
First iPod released
The first line of iPods was released on this date. Many updates and new technology of iPods have been released since. -
MySpace launched
Myspace is a social networking service with a strong music emphasis owned by Specific Media LLC and pop music singer and actor Justin Timberlake. Myspace was launched in August 2003 and is headquartered in Beverly Hills, California -
Skype launched
Skype was first released in 2003 written by Estonian developers Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, who had also originally developed Kazaa. It developed into a platform with over 600 million users and was bought by Microsoft in 2011 for $8.5 billion. -
Facebook Launched
Facebook was made by Mark Zuckerburg for one university before it expanded, in 2006, and was made public. -
Youtube Launched
YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos.] The company is based in San Bruno, California, and uses Adobe Flash Video and HTML5 technology to display a wide variety of user-generated video content, including movie clips, TV clips, and music videos, as well as amateur content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. -
First Video Uploaded
The first to be uploaded to YouTube was a video of someone visiting a zoo. -
Qzone
Qzone is a social networking website, which was created by Tencent in 2005. It permits users to write blogs, keep diaries, send photos, and listen to music. Users can set their Qzone background and select accessories based on their preferences so that every Qzone is customized to the individual member's taste. However, most Qzone services are not free; only after buying the "Canary Diamond" can users access every service without paying extra. -
Twitter Launched
Twitter was launched in 2006 and celebtrated its' sixth anniversary in 2012, hitting one hundred million users per month a while earlier. -
4od went live
4od - channel4's iPlayer - went live in November. -
Tumblr launched
Tumblr, stylized in their logo as tumblr., is a microblogging platform and social networking website, owned and operated by Tumblr, Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs, as well as make their blogs private. Much of the website's features are accessed from the "dashboard" interface, where the option to post content and posts of followed blogs appear. -
First iPhone released
The iPhone is a line of smartphones designed and marketed by Apple Inc. It runs Apple's iOS mobile operating system, known as the "iPhone OS" until mid-2010, shortly after the release of the iPad. The first iPhone was released on June 29, 2007; the most recent iPhone, the sixth-generation iPhone 5, on September 21, 2012. The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard. The iPhone has Wi-Fi and cellular connectivy. -
BBC iPlayer went live
BBC iPlayer left Beta mode on this date but then went many developments after wards, even changing its' slogan. -
Spotify launched
Spotify is a commercial music streaming service providing DRM-protected content from a range of major and independent record labels, including Sony, EMI, Warner Music Group and Universal. -
Bing launched
Bing was unveiled by Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer on May 28, 2009 at the All Things Digital conference in San Diego for release on June 1. Notable changes include the listing of search suggestions while queries are entered and a list of related searches (called "Explore pane") based on semantic technology from Powerset which Microsoft purchased in 2008. -
Pininterest launched
Pinterest is a pinboard-style photo sharing website that allows users to create and manage theme-based image collections such as events, interests, hobbies, and more. Users can browse other pinboards for inspiration, 're-pin' images to their own pinboards, or 'like' photos. The site was founded by Ben Silbermann (of West Des Moines, Iowa), Paul Sciarra, and Evan Sharp, the site is managed by Cold Brew Labs and funded by a small group of entrepreneurs and inventors. -
First iPad released
The iPad is a line of tablet computers designed and marketed by Apple Inc., which runs Apple's iOS operating system. The first iPad was released on April 3, 2010; the most recent iPad models, the fourth-generation iPad and iPad Mini, were released on November 2, 2012. The user interface is built around the device's multi-touch screen, including a virtual keyboard. The iPad has built-in Wi-Fi and, on some models, cellular connectivity. -
First Windows Phone released
Windows Phone is a series of proprietary mobile operating systems developed by Microsoft, and is the successor to its Windows Mobile platform, Although incompatible with it. Unlike its predecessor, it is primarily aimed at the consumer market rather than the enterprise market. It was first launched in October 2010, with a release in Asia following in early 2011. -
Instagram launched
Instagram is an online photo-sharing and social networking service that enables its users to take pictures, apply digital filters to them, and share them on a variety of social networking services, such as media sites including Facebook or Twitter. A distinctive feature is that it confines photos to a square shape, similar to Kodak Instamatic and Polaroid images, in contrast to the 4:3 aspect ratio typically used by mobile device cameras. -
Twitter hit 100 million monthly active users
Twitter hit 100 million monthly users in 2011, five years after it first went online. -
Fifa 13 released
Fifa 13 (the video gaming football game) was released in 2012, following its' previous installments. -
Facebook hit 1 billion monthly users
Facebook hit 1 billion monthly users, eight years after it went live. -
iPad introduced
iPad was introduced on this day. Since then a few new models have come out, including the iPad2 -
Blackberry devices
Definitely 2 new Blackberry10 (maybe three) devices will have been released by the end of 2013. -
iPad 5
The iPad 5 will have been released, probably having started production in late 2013. -
Blackberry and Apple
Blackberry and Apple will have worked together on at least one product. -
iPad development
At least nine iPads will now be on the market with more in development.
