TIMELINE of digital media.
1822 First m echanical computer. Charles Babbage designs his first mechanical computer. In 1837, Babbage proposed the first general mechanical computer, which he called the Analytical Engine. It was the first general purpose computer containing an Arithmetic Logic Unit, which included basic flow control and integrated memory for the first time..
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1880 Photophone. Alexander Graham Bell invents the first telephone..
1963 First Computer Mouse. Douglas Engelbart invents and patents the first computer mouse (nicknamed the mouse because the tail came out at the end)..
1895 Radio Signals. Invented by Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi transmitted radio signals for about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) at the end of 1895. Marconi was awarded a patent for radio with British patent No. 12,039, Improvements in Transmitting Electrical Impulses and Signals and in Apparatus There-for. The complete specification was filed March 2, 1897.
1927 Television Electronic. It was Philo Taylor Farnsworth who demonstrated the first Electronic Television on 7th September 1927 in San Francisco. Philo Taylor Farnsworth developed electronic television at the early age of 21. He had a long experience living without electricity as he lived a long time as of his early 14 years without electricity. However, the patent for electronic technology was first filed by Vladimir k. Zworykin, a Russian inventor in 1923. But his television could not start working until 1934, while Farnsworth's successful demonstration of the first TV signal transmission was before Zworykin on 7th September 1927. This demonstration he made with his own developed scanning tube. Afterward, RCA Company also claimed for the patent as Zworykin was the employee in the company. But the Court gave a decision in favor of Philo Taylor Farnsworth, as he became the first inventor of all-electronic television..
1931 Universal Formal Language. Kurt Godel publishes a paper on the use of universal formal language..
1937 Theoretical computing machine. A Turing machine is a theoretical computing machine invented by Alan Turing (1937) to serve as an idealized model for mathematical calculation..
1971 E-mail. Ray Tomlinson got initial credit for the invention of email. He was an American computer programmer who tried for the very first time to invent the email system on ARPANET in 1971..
1973 MINI COMPUTER. The mini computer Xerox Alto (1973) was a landmark step in the development of personal computers..
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1975 MICROSOFT. The Microsoft Corporation was founded April 4, 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen to develop and sell BASIC interpreters for the Altair 8800 (first portable computer)..
SEP 4, 1991 Google. Larry Page and Sergey Brin made google in 1998 and Andy Bechtolsheim wrote a check for google which was $100,000 to a company that did not exist yet..
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1993 Smartphone. In 1993 IBM researcher, Gary Barney developed an IBM Simon which was the world’s first smartphone that ran on touchscreen technology. This device had a touch screen with an information retrieval system, which was made up of 10 function buttons and the display only had one monochrome line..
1994 YAHOO. Yahoo! started at Stanford University . [1] 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!". [2] [3] The word "YAHOO" is a backronym for " Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" [4] or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." [5] The yahoo.com domain was created on January 18, 1995..
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2001 XBOX. Xbox is a gaming console that was invented by Microsoft Corporation, in 2001. Since its early days in 1972, Microsoft is ever prominent as a software giant and a household name in consumer electronics. In 2001, they came up with an innovation widely known as the console. They introduced Xbox into the gaming world..
JOKES TO PASS TIME. What's the worst kind of media? Chlamydia Have you seen my digital boat? Oh wait, its syncing . My brother has been working on a belt with a built in digital clock. Talk about a waist of time.
What do you call two digital artists in a fight? Graphic Violence.