The impacts of ICT

  • First computer

    In 1822, Charles Babbage purposed and began developing the Difference Engine, considered to be the first automatic computing engine that was capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results. Unfortunately, because of funding he was never able to complete a full-scale functional version of this machine.
  • BBC Launched

    BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) Is as popular channel in many countries and holds the most popular programmes.
  • First British televison broadcast

    The first British television broadcast was made by Baird Television's electromechanical system over the BBC radio transmitter in September 1929.
  • First US show

    In the U.S the first show was a pro football game: NY Giants vs. WA Redskins. It was 1939.
  • First televised advert

    In the U.S., the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) allowed stations to broadcast advertisements beginning in July 1941, but required public service programming commitments as a requirement for a license. By contrast, the United Kingdom chose a different route, imposing a television license fee on owners of television reception equipment
  • ICT changed medicines and medical equipment

    Although these new machines help with the diagnosis and treatment of patients, computers have defects and can break down. Therefore there is a big danger that patients over rely on computer-controlled equipment.
    This happened in America when radiation therapy machines accidentally gave patients overdoses of radiation, leading to three patients deaths
  • First electronic computer

    The Colossus was the first electric programmable computer and was developed by Tommy Flowers and first demonstrated in December 1953. The Colossus was created to help the British code breakers read encrypted German messages
  • First computer mouse

    the mouse has two buttons and is used as a pointer between the user of the computer and the actual computer. The first computer mouse was wooden.
  • First Email

    Sometime in late 1972, a computer engineer named Ray Tomlinson sent the first e-mail message.
  • MRI scanners

    MRI scanners, imaging devices, depend on computers to process their data into a readable format, so th doctors and patients can read it.
  • First digital camera

    A digital camera (or digicam) is a camera that takes video or still photographs by recording images on an electronic image sensor. Most cameras sold today are digital and digital cameras are incorporated into many devices ranging from PDAs and mobile phones (called camera phones) to vehicles.
  • Image projector

    An image projector is an optical device that projects an image (or moving images) onto a surface, commonly a projection screen. Most projectors creates an image by shining a light through a small transparent image, but some newer types of projectors can project the image directly, by using lasers. A virtual retinal display, or retinal projector, is a projector that projects an image directly on the retina instead of using an external projection screen.
  • Yahoo! invented

    Yahoo! was started in a Stanford University campus trailer. It was founded in January 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, who were Electrical Engineering graduate students when they created a website named "Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web". The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. In April 1994, Jerry and David's Guide to the World Wide Web was renamed "Yahoo!".[
  • MSN invented,

    MSN (originally The Microsoft Network; stylized as msn) is a collection of Internet sites and services provided by Microsoft.
  • E4 Launched

    E4 is a British digital television channel, launched as a pay-TV companion to Channel 4 on 18 January 2001. The "E" stands for entertainment, and the channel is mainly aimed at the lucrative 15–35 age group.
  • Facebook launched

    facebook is a social netwroking site and was first launched in Cambridge by Mark Zuckerberg. It was intitally made for the students of Harvard university but soon expanded over to colleges in Boston and gradually most universities in Canada and the United States and by September 2006 to everyone of age 13 and older with a valid email address.
  • Bebo invented

    Bebo was founded by Michael Birch and his wife Xochi Birch in January 2005 at their home in San Francisco
  • Youtube invented.

    YouTube is a video-sharing website, created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005, on which users can upload, view and share videos
  • Tumblr invented.

    Development of Tumblr began sometime in 2006 during a two week gap between contracts at David Karp's software consulting company
  • Twitter invented.

    Twitter is an online social networking service and microblogging service that enables its users to send and read text-based messages of up to 140 characters, known as "tweets". Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey and by July, the social networking site was launched. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity, with over 500 million registered users as of 2012, generating over 340 million tweets daily and handling over 1.6 billion search queries per day.
  • First IPhone

    The Iphone is a sparftphone, introduced by apple. It is said to be the most popular phone around and keeps upgrading in different generations.
  • Google Maps launched

    On November 28, 2007, Google Maps for Mobile 2.0 was released. Its location service can work with or without a GPS receiver. The "my location" feature uses the GPS / Assisted GPS location of the mobile device, if available, supplemented by determining the nearest wireless networks and cell sites. The software looks up the location of the cell site using a database of known wireless networks and sites. By triangulating the different signal strengths from different cell transmitters and then using
  • Launched 3D TV

  • Instagram

    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 Facebook or Twitter. Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger and launched in October 2010. The service rapidly gained popularity, with over 100 million active users as of April 2012.
  • 4G Phone

    In telecommunications, 4G is the fourth generation of mobile phone mobile communication technology standards. It is a successor of the third generation (3G) standards. A 4G system provides mobile ultra-broadband Internet access, for example to laptops with USB wireless modems, to smartphones, and to other mobile devices.
  • Vets effected by ICT

    Vets Use Camera's Vets use camera's to take pictures of the Animals wounds. They can also get special cameras that take X-Rays of the Animals Bones
  • ICT changed medicines and hospital equipment

    Although these new machines help with the diagnosis and treatment of patients, computers have defects and can break down. Therefore there is a big danger that patients over rely on computer-controlled equipment.
    This happened in America when radiation therapy machines accidentally gave patients overdoses of radiation, leading to three patients deaths
  • ICT changed medicines and medical equipment

    Although these new machines help with the diagnosis and treatment of patients, computers have defects and can break down. Therefore there is a big danger that patients over rely on computer-controlled equipment.
    This happened in America when radiation therapy machines accidentally gave patients overdoses of radiation, leading to three patients deaths
  • HiFi

    A mobile phone and headphones in one. We are used to seeing people listening to music on their mobile phones using headphones that are plugged into the device. But what about having a mobile phone that actually opens up into headphones? That’s the idea behind HiFi, a submission that was made earlier this year to LG’s Design the Future Contest. There are some limitations in terms of the materials that would be required to make a phone like this but maybe it could happen someday.
  • Morph

    Morph – Mobile phone from 2033. Nokia has some high hopes for what the company will be able to do in terms of the future of handset design. They want to implement nanotechnology to create impressive mobile phones that can do everything from tapping directly into your brain to capture your memories to serving as a second pair of eyes for you. Learn more.