History of Technology

  • Pong is Released

    Pong is Released
    Nolan Bushnell, a California entrepreneur hired an engineer named Al Alcorn. Originally he was going to design a car game, but he instead designed a version of Ping Pong. The game was tested in California and proved to be very popular.
  • The Queen's First Email

    The Queen's First Email
    Queen Elizabeth ll, sends out an email as a part of a demonstration of network technology. She does this in the U.K. from the Royal Signals and Radar Establishment (RSRE).
  • Commodore 64 Introduced

    Commodore 64 Introduced
    In 1982 the "greatest selling single computer of all time" was released to the public. It was known as the C64 and came with 64KB of RAM features. It sold for $595 and sold more than 22 million units.
  • Computer Defeats Master Chess Player.

    Computer Defeats Master Chess Player.
    David Levy was the first master chess player to be defeated by a computer. David Levy had beaten all other computer counterparts up to that point.
  • Jurassic Park is Released

    Jurassic Park is Released
    In 1993, Steven Spielberg's version of Jurassic Park, based on the novel written by Michael Crichton, was released. It became the highest grossing film to date, mainly because of it's use of special effects.
  • Microsoft Introduces Visual Studio

    Microsoft Introduces Visual Studio
    Visual Studios had multiple programming tools to create one environment where developers could use different programming languages.
  • The Roomba is Introduced

    The Roomba is Introduced
    IRobot's Roomba, is a robotic vacuum. The robot could clean an entire room while recognizing objects in its way and avoid them.
  • MySpace

    MySpace
    MySpace was not the first or largest social media platform. However, it is one of the most important sites that helped create the next generation of social media.
  • Facebook Buys Instagram

    Facebook Buys Instagram
    Instagram was originally an independent company until Facebook purchased it for almost $1 billion. Instagram was and still is a popular social media website with people posting videos and photos to their followers.
  • Olivia's First Phone

    Olivia's First Phone
    It took like 45 minutes to send a text, and it was really ugly. But, I was happy that I had a phone and that it came with UNO.
  • Tori's First Phone

    Tori's First Phone
    This was my first phone. At first I loved it because it was purple and soon hated it. Everyone in my class had iPhone's and I had a purple slider phone.
  • Faith's First Phone

    Faith's First Phone
    I got my first phone in 5th grade. It was my mom's old iPhone 4s and i was so excited because all of my friends had phones too but i was afraid to use it in front of my mom for some reason.
  • The Apple Watch

    The Apple Watch
    The Apple Watch was released in 2015 and is not like any other watch out there. It functions as a Phone and Computer while using the iOS format created by Apple.