Digital Media Timeline 1985 2014 By Anna Kay

Digital Media Timeline 1985 -2014 By: Anna Kay Lawrence

1985 �The Windows operating system was released by Microsoft. §Nintendo also released the Nintendo entertainment (video game) system.

1988 The Ne. XT cube is a high-end workstation computer developed, manufactured and sold by Ne. XT from 1990 until 1993. It superseded the original Ne. XT 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 486 DX 2 (66 MHz) 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 co-manager. 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 Station 2 Video Game Console.

2001 The i. Pod , Apple’s hard drivebased digital audio player, is introduced

2002 The Black. Berry smartphone was released. 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 stand-alone 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.

2004 The Facebook social networking site was started by a Harvard University student Mark Zuckerberg. One of the most famous social medias.

2005 You. Tube 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 i. Phone.

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 For months after Jabra’s Bluetooth headset hit the market, we were all freaked out by the people wandering around in public talking to themselves. And while this advancement has certainly led to an increase in doughy behaviour, it’s also probably saved countless lives, freeing hands for that all important thing called steering.

2010 Adobe Photoshop CS 5 was created The Kinect was made. 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 Play. Station 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. 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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