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