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event1972
Magnavox released the Odyssey.1975 Magnavox releases the Odyssey 200,1975 Universal Research Labs releases the Video Action1975 Autumn Executive Games releases Electronic Television Tennis1947
The transistor
The transistor was invented by Bell Telephone Company. It wasn't a computer in itself'but it was a vital computer component.1953
IBM
International Business Machines came out with their first computer machine.1955
Bank computers
The first bank computers were invented. They used MICR'or magnetic ink character recognition'to read checks.1958
The computer chip
Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce invented the integrated circuit'better known as the computer chip.1962
Video games
Spacewar games invented the first computer video games.1963
The mouse is invented
Douglas Engelbart invented the computer mouse. He called it the mouse because the cord came out the back like a tail.1969
The internet
The first internet was called ARPANET. The original internet wasn't used very widely because not many people had access to it.1975
Microsoft is born
Bill Gates worked with Paul Allen to develop BASIC for the Altair 8800.1989
Microsoft expands
Microsoft made a program that was compatible with IBM computers. This let more people come into contact with the now well-known program.1991
The internet as we know it
Tim Berners Less came up with the World Wide Web. He started a computer revolution.1991
The laptop comes into play
The first laptop computer'the Power Book 100'came out. There were other portable computers before this'but they were very clunky and expensive.1996
World Wide Convention
the first internet convention was held.1996
Mini computers
Nokia introduced a phone that had internet capabilities. This started a revolution of devices that were small'portable computers.Sims was made
The Sims became exceptionally popular with women, who accounted for more than sixty percent of players.First cameraa phone
Japan's SoftBank introduces the first camera phone, the J-Phone J-SH04; a Sharp-manufactured digital phone with integrated camera. The camera had a maximum resolution of 0.11 megapixels a 256-color displayThe PS2 was released
The PlayStation 2 (PS2) represents a significant change in the concept of game consoles. The PS2 allowed for DVDs to be played as well as game disks, making it more of an entertainment console than a game console.The Flash drive was made
these drives consisted of flash memory encased in a small form factor container with a USB interface They could be used for data storage and in the backing up and transferring of files between various devices. They were faster and had greater data capacity than earlier storage media Also they could not be scratched like optical discs and were resilient to magnetic erasure unlike floppy disksThe Centibots
project, funded by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA),Blue ray
Developed by a technology industry consortium, the Blu-ray optical disc is released. It was intended to be the successor to the DVD, and was designed to store high definition video at 1080pMySpace is one of the most important and helped define the second wave of social networking. Two eUniverse employees, Chris DeWolfe and Tom Anderson, developed MySpace based around the features of the earlier social networking siteWorld of war craft (WOW)
After ten years as a series of strategy games, Blizzard Entertainment launches World of Warcraft, a Massive Multiplayer Online Role Playing GamHarkening back to the hobbyist era of personal computing in the 1970s, Arduino begins as a project of the Interaction Design InstituteAmazon
Amazon Web Services is launched. It introduced a number of web services, including Amazon Elastic Cloud 2Nintendo's Wii
game system does not merely introduce new games and controllers, but new ways of interacting with game systems. The Wii Remote combined advanced gesture recognition into gaming, using accelerometer and optical sensor technologies to interact with the user.Portle (the game)
Featuring complicated puzzles, a science fiction setting, and a passive-aggressive robot named GlaDOS, Portal is designed by Valve Entertainment.HULU
Founded out of a rare act of cooperation between US media giants Disney-ABC Television GroupApple launches the iPhone
a combination of web browser, music player and cell phoneWALL-E
Pixar Animation Studios and Walt Disney Pictures produce the motion picture WALL-EMac book air
Apple introduces their first ultra notebook – a light, thin laptop with high-capacity battery. The Air incorporated many of the technologies that had been associated with Apple's MacBook line of laptopMinecraft
Initially developed by Swedish game designer Markus “Notch” Persson, Minecraft allows players to build towers and play challengesBit coin
In 2008 Satoshi Nakamoto likely a pseudonym, publishes Bitcoin: A Peer-to-Peer Electronic Cash System, describing the use of peer-to-peer networks to generate a “crypto-currency.Angry Birds
As touchscreen-enabled tablets and smartphones proliferate, mobile games became top-sellers.Adobe Creative Cloud
is announced as a subscription and cloud-based model of distribution for its major software productsInstagram
, an image-sharing and social networking application, is purchased by Facebook for nearly $1 billion.Microsoft had not released a new version of the Xbox for almost eight years when it introduces the Xbox One.The PlayStation 4 (PS4) is seen as a bold new step for Sony in the game marketBuilding a computer into the watch form factor has been attempted many times but the release of the Apple Watch leads to a new level of excitement.
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