Technology Advancements

photo editing

Feb 10, 1825

info videoediting toolPhoto manipulation dates back to some of the earliest photographs captured on glass and tin plates during the 19th Century. The practice began not long after the creation of the first photograph (1825) by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce who developed heliography and made the first photographic print from a photoengraved printing plate.

smart phones

Feb 10, 1971

videomorwe infoDevices that combined telephony and computing were first conceptualized by Nikola Tesla in 1909 and Theodore Paraskevakos in 1971 and patented in 1974, and were offered for sale beginning in 1993. Paraskevakos was the first to introduce the concepts of intelligence, data processing and visual display screens into telephones.

texting

Feb 10, 1971

texting historyIn 1933 RCA Communications, New York introduced the first "telex" service.The first messages over RCA transatlantic circuits went between New York and London. The first year of operation saw seven million words or 300,000 radiograms transmitted.

online shopping

Jan 1, 1979

shopping onlineEnglish entrepreneur Michael Aldrich invented online shopping in 1979. His system connected a modified domestic TV to a real-time transaction processing computer via a domestic telephone line.

Online banking

Feb 10, 1980

exampleOnline banking also known as internet banking, e-banking, or virtual banking, is an electronic payment system that enables customers of a bank or other financial institution to conduct a range of financial transactions through the financial institution's website.

Email

Feb 10, 1993

mor infoemailsElectronic mail, most commonly called email or e-mail since around 1993. is a method of exchanging digital messages from an author to one or more recipients. Email operates across the Internet or other computer networks via an email provider's server facility.

Netflix

Sep 1, 1997

Netflix was founded in 1997 in Scotts Valley, California by Marc Randolph. In 2000, Netflix was offered for acquisition to Blockbuster for $50 million; however, Blockbuster declined the offer.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

Facebook is a social networking service launched in February 4, 2004. Owned and operated by Facebook. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin.

Youtube

Feb 5, 2005

The domain name "YouTube.com" was activated on February 15, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months.

Twitter

Jul 15, 2006

more about twitterTwitter's origins lie in a "daylong brainstorming session" held by board members of the podcasting company Odeo. Jack Dorsey, then an undergraduate student at New York University, introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.

PInterest

Dec 10, 2009

more on pionterestDevelopment of Pinterest began in December 2009, and the site launched as a closed beta in March 2010. The site proceeded to operate in invitation-only open beta.

Instagram

Mar 5, 2010

Instagram began development in San Francisco, when Systrom and Brazilian Krieger chose to focus their multi-featured HTML5 check-in project, Burbn, on mobile photography.[15][16] The word "Instagram" is a portmanteau of "instant camera" and "telegram".