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70's To 90's Technology Timeline
For our first project (Narrative) for year 2, for this
project we got The Information Age (70-00).
Group - Gabriel, Le and Me.
Here's a simple Timeline of when technology was released in
The Information Age.
- 1970
The daisy-wheel printer invented.
The floppy disk invented by Alan Shugart.
- 1971
The dot-matrix printer invented.
The food processor invented.
The liquid-crystal display (LCD) invented by James Fergason.
The microprocessor invented by Faggin, Hoff and Mazor.
VCR or videocassette invented.
- 1972
The word processor invented.
Pong first video game invented by Nolan Bushnell.
Hacky Sack invented by John Stalberger and Mike Marshall.
- 1975
The laser printer invented.
The push-through tab on a drink can invented.
- 1976
The ink-jet printer invented.
- 1977
Magnetic resonance imaging invented by Raymond V. Damadian.
- 1978
Dan Bricklin and Bob Frankston invented the
VisiCalcspreadsheet.
The artificial heart Jarvik-7 invented by Robert K. Jarvik.
- 1979
Cell phones invented.
Cray supercomputer invented by Seymour Cray.
Walkman invented.
- 1981
MS-DOS invented.
The first IBM-PC invented.
The scanning tunneling microscope invented by Gerd Karl
Binnig and Heinrich Rohrer.
- 1983
The Apple Lisa invented.
Soft bifocal contact lens invented.
First Cabbage Patch Kids sold.
Programmer Jaron Lanier first coins the term "virtual
reality".
- 1984
The CD-ROM invented.
The Apple Macintosh invented.
- 1985
Windows program invented by Microsoft.
- 1986
A high-temperature super-conductor invented by J. Georg
Bednorz and Karl A. Muller.
Synthetic skin invented by G. Gregory Gallico, III.
Fuji introduced the disposable camera.
- 1987
The first 3-D video game invented.
- 1988
Digital cellular phones invented.
The RU-486 (abortion pill) invented.
Doppler radar invented by Christian Andreas Doppler.
Prozac invented at the Eli Lilly Company by inventor Ray
Fuller.
The first patent for a genetically engineered animal is
issued to Harvard University researchers Philip Leder and Timothy Stewart.
Ralph Alessio and Fredrik Olsen received a patent for the
Indiglo nightlight. The bluish green light is used to illuminate the entire
face of a watch.
- 1989
High-definition television invented.
- 1990
The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW
language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.
- 1991
The digital answering machine invented.
- 1992
The smart pill invented.
- 1993
The pentium processor invented.
- 1995
The Java computer language invented.
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) invented.
- 1996
Web TV invented.
- 1997
The gas-powered fuel cell invented.
ALL INFORMATION IS FROM -
http://inventors.about.com/od/timelines/a/modern_3.htm
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