The History of ICT

  • The First Programmable computer

    In 1822, Charles Babbage started to work on the first programmable comupter, it was suposed to be capable of computing several sets of numbers and making a hard copies of the results. Unfortunately, he didn't have the money to complete a full-scale functional version of this machine. In June of 1991,
  • The first Mobile Phone

    Mobile phones used to connect wirelessly to the public switched telephone network. The transmission of speech by radio has a long and varied history going back to Reginald Fessenden's invention and demonstration of radio telephone. Through the Second World War they used military use of radio telephony links. Hand-held radio transceivers have been available since the 1940s. Mobile telephones for automobiles became available from some telephone companys.
  • The first ever video game

    William Higinbotham created the first video game ever in 1958. His game, called "Tennis for Two," was created and played on a Brookhaven National Laboratory oscilloscope. In 1962, Steve Russell invented SpaceWar!. Spacewar! was the first computer game, Russell used a MIT PDP-1 mainframe computer to design his game.
  • The internet was invented

    The Internet first started to be developed in the late 1960's. In the summer of 1968, the Network Working Group (NWG) held its first meeting chaired by Elmer Shapiro with the Stanford Research Institute (SRI) with attendees: Steve Carr, Steve Crocker, Jeff Rulifson, and Ron Stoughton. In the meeting the group discussed solving issues related to getting hosts to communicate with each other.
  • Apple was founded

    Apple was discovered by Steve Jobbs and Steve Wozinak and Ronald Wayne.
  • The first CD player.

    The first CD playerever was invented by Sony. It was released in October of 1982 costing around $900. The invention of the CD player is thought to have been a huge step in digital sound technology,
  • TESCO started using clubcards

    In 1993 Terry Leahy asked the Tesco Marketing team to investigate the potential of loyalty cards. In the past Tesco had run Green Shield Stamps as a promotional tool which rewarded people for visits and spend but gained no customer information. Grant Harrison started working on the club card that could store customer infomation, and he got permission by the TESCO authority.
  • Facebook was invented

    Facebook was invented by a second year student at Harvard called Mark Zuckerburg, his class mates Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes helped with the creation. The site was originally called Facemash. He created it for other Harvard students mostly for pictures, to decide who was 'hot or not'. He used his technical abilities to hack into the Harvard computers to get hold of the student ID's to make the site more popular.
  • Twitter was invented

    Twitter was invented by Jack Dorsey, at the time, smart phones were relatively new . Dorsey wanted to use his cellphone to send text messages to a service and have the message distributed to all his friends. At the time, most of Dorsey's friend's didn't have text-enabled cellphones and spent a lot of time on their home computers. Twitter was born of a need to enable text messaging to have a cross platform capacity, work on phone, computers and other devices.
  • The Iphone 6 released

    Many pundits predict a summer iPhone 6 release date. It's quite likely that Apple is moving to a two-phones-per-year upgrade cycle, but we'd bet on a springtime 5S model and a bigger, iPhone 6, update in the Autumn, probably September. Digitimes reckons predicts a summertime reveal for Apple's next generation phones, which again fits with a WWDC unveiling. In May it became clear that US carrier Verizon introduced an iPhone 5 price cut of as much as $100 USD.
  • Google Glasses

    Some people say that by 2020 Google glasses will exsist, these galsses that you put on and where ever you are, you can search the web in 2 seconds.
  • Robots will be as smart as humans.

    It is siad that Robots will be as smart as humans in 2029, also, people say that by 2100, there is a risk of Robots wiping out humans.
  • Auto pilot cars

    Cras will run by themselves with nobody driving.