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digital media timeline. 1985-2014. 1985. The Windows operating system was released by Microsoft. Nintendo also released the Nintendo entertainment (video game) system. 1988. - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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DIGITAL MEDIA 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 It superseded the original NeXT Computer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 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 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 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
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
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 douchy behavior, it’s also
probably saved countless lives, freeing hands for that all
important thing called steering.
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.