Then and now

Computer Advancements

  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    Video TelegraphMore info1844 Telegraph
    Samuel F.B. Morse demonstrates his telegraph by sending a message to Baltimore from the chambers of the Supreme Court in Washington, DC. The message, "What hath God wrought?," marks the beginning of a new era in communication.
  • sewing machine

    sewing machine
    video sewing machineMore info
    USA by Isaac Singer (Not inventor, but he added Improvements that made the machine much more usable)
  • Digital Clocks

    Digital Clocks
    More informationvideo of the invention of clocksThe Plato clocks were introduced at the St. Louis World Fair in 1904, produced by Ansonia Clock Company. Eugene Fitch of New York patented the clock design in 1903. The earliest patent for a digital alarm clock was registered by D.E Protzmann and others on October 23, 1956, in the United States
  • VCR

    VCR
    More info on VCRsHow a VCR WorksInvented in 1956, the technology which produced the video cassette recorder (VCR) is already at the end of its days.
  • Invetion of the internet

    Invetion of the internet
    35 Years of the Internet, 1969–2004. Stamp of Azerbaijan, 2004. By December 5, 1969, a 4-node network was connected by adding the University of Utah and the University of California, Santa Barbara. Building on ideas developed in ALOHAnet, the ARPANET grew rapidly.
  • MAC realesed to public

    MAC realesed to public
    About MacsApple marketed its operating system software as "Mac OS", beginning in 1997. On January 24, 1984, Apple Computer Inc. (now Apple Inc.) introduced the Macintosh personal computer, retroactively renamed to the Macintosh 128K model.
  • Ceation of WI-FI

    Ceation of WI-FI
    more of the WIFIn 1991, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems. The first wireless products were under the name WaveLAN.
  • USB Flashdrive

    USB Flashdrive
    The USB FlashdriveTrek Technology and IBM began selling the first USB flash drives commercially in 2000. Trek Technology sold a model under the brand name "ThumbDrive",USB flash drives were invented by Amir Ban, Dov Moran and Oron Ogdan, all of the Israeli company M-Systems, who filed US patent 6148354 in April 1999.
  • YouTube

    YouTube
    More about YoutubeFebruary 14, 2005, San Mateo, CA
  • Fitbit

    Fitbit
    video of fitbitFitbit website
    Tracks heart rate, calories, sleep, and much more best thing for exercise.
  • Oculus Rift

    Oculus Rift
    more about the riftOculus VR is an American virtual reality technology company founded by Palmer Luckey and Brendan Iribe. Their first product, still in development, is the Oculus Rift, a head-mounted display for immersive technology virtual reality.
  • Kinect

    Kinect
    The kinectthrough a natural user interface using gestures and spoken commands. The first-generation Kinect.