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TIMELINE
1985-2014
1985
 The Windows operating system was released by Microsoft.
 Nintendo also released the Nintendo entertainment (video game)
system.
1988
 The NeXT cube is a high-end workstation computer developed,
manufactured and sold by NeXT from 1990 until 1993. It superseded the
original NeXT Computer workstation and is housed in a similar cube-shaped
magnesium enclosure.
1989
 The Game Boy is an 8-bit handheld video game device developed and
manufactured by Nintendo. It was released in Japan on April 21, 1989, in North
America in August 1989, and in Europe on September 28, 1990. It is the first
handheld console in the Game Boy line.
1990
The World Wide Web prototype was created. Tim Berners-Lee shared his original
prototype for an Internet browser that would allow people to share information
by using a special mark-up language to post text, link to other documents, and
display graphic images.
1991
 Tim Bernes-Lee and CERN released the World Wide Web program. It was
the only way to see the web. Much later it was renamed Nexus in order to save
confusion between the program and the abstract information space (which is
now spelled World Wide Web with spaces).
1992
 Dec.1992- A mobile phone in the United Kingdom received one
of the first SMS messages.
1993
In 1993, Intel announced the Pentium chip. The Pentium is a 32-bit chip with superscalar
design, and is estimated to be two times faster than the 486DX2 (66MHz) chip. The
Pentium uses dual pipelines to allow it to process two separate instructions in a single
cycle. Don Alpert was the architecture manager of the Pentium, John Crawford was comanager. In March 1994, Intel announced new and faster versions of the Pentium
microprocessor.
1994
Yahoo! Inc. is an American multinational Internet corporation
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It is globally known for its
Web portal, search engine Yahoo Search, and related services.
1995
Aug- The Windows 95 operating system was released by microsoft.
July- The Amazon e-commerce Web site begins service.
1998
 The Windows 98 operating system was released by microsoft.
1999
 Google was officially launched and flash drive
2000
 Sony releases its Play Station2 Video Game Console.
2001
 The ipod , Apple’s hard drive-based digital audio player, is
introduced
2002
 The BlackBerry smartphone was released .
2002 CONT’
Camera Phones — Introduced to the North American marketplace in 2002,
an estimated 80 million camera phones were sold in 2003, — 6 million in the
U.S. alone. By 2003 more camera phones were sold worldwide than standalone digital cameras. At the end of 2008, the world-installed base of camera
phones was 1.9 billion.
2003
 Itunes was created. Used to store music files and transfer media
files to apple products.
 Word press was launched
2004
 The facebook social networking site was started by a Harvard
University student Mark Zuckerberg. One of the most famous social
medias.
2005
 Youtube was created. It is newly bought by google.
2006
 The twitter social networking service was founded by jack dorsey
 The Wii Gaming console
2007
 On January 9 Apple’s Steve Jobs introduces the iphone.
2008
 Creation Technologies LP is a global electronics manufacturing services (EMS)
provider headquartered in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada. Creation provides
full service electronics solutions to a diversified group of original equipment
manufacturers (OEMs) across North America and worldwide, and has 11
manufacturing operations in Canada, the USA and China.
2009
Android is a mobile operating system (OS) based on the Linux kernel and
currently developed by Google. With a user interface based on direct
manipulation, Android is designed primarily for touchscreen mobile devices
such as smartphones and tablet computers, with specialized user interfaces for
televisions (Android TV), cars (Android Auto), and wrist watches (Android
Wear). The OS uses touch inputs that loosely correspond to real-world actions,
like swiping, tapping, pinching, and reverse pinching to manipulate on-screen
objects, and a virtual keyboard. Despite being primarily designed for
touchscreen input, it also has been used in game consoles, digital cameras, and
other electronics.
2010
 Adobe Photoshop CS5 was created
 The kinect was made
2010 CONT’
 IPAD also know as the tablet was created.
2011
 Skype was created. used in a wide range to connect people across
the world by means of internet video conferencing .
2012
 Pinterest was created. This is a means used by a wide range of
persons to broadcast artwork and make a name for themselves.
2013
 Xbox One is a video game console developed and marketed by Microsoft.
Announced on May 21, 2013, it is the successor to the Xbox 360 and is the third
console in the Xbox family. It directly competes with Sony's PlayStation 4 and
Nintendo's Wii U as part of the eighth generation of video game consoles.
2014
 It's long been the stuff of science fiction, but tech giants hope the
"smart home", where gadgets talk to each other and the fridge orders
the milk, will soon become reality.
2014 CONT’
 Researchers from the University of Washington in Seattle have come up-with
a SideSwipe system that enables in-air gestures above and around a mobile
device. This is an interesting way to interact with the phone without using
physical buttons or touchscreens.
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