Information Age - Innovations

Innovations

• Analytical Engine – draft – 1837
• Stereoscope – 1849
• Microphotography developed by John Benjamin Dancer in 1851.
• Microform information storage technology uses microphotography to achieve commercial viability in the 1920s.
• Z3 – first general-purpose digital computer – 1941
• Atanasoff–Berry Computer – electronic digital computer – 1942
• Colossus computer – first programmable, digital, electronic computer – 1943
• ENIAC general purpose electronic digital computer – 1946
• The mathematical framework of the theory of information – 1948
• Transistor – mark in the electronic development – 1947
• The formulation of the Hamming code – 1950
• Earliest form of the Internet – 1969
• Electronic paper - 1970s
• Email – 1971
• Home video game consoles - 1972, widespread public application mid 1980s
• Personal computer – 1974, widespread public application early 1980s
• Laptop – 1980s, widespread public application 1990s
• World Wide Web – 1989, widespread public application mid 1990s
• PDA – 1990s
• Online gaming communities – 1990s, widespread public application early 2000s
• Cellular phones – 1984, widespread public application late 1990s and early 2000s
• Digital Camera and Webcams 1980s mainstreamed 2000s
• Digital Television 1990s, widespread public application 2000s (Digital television transition 2006-)
• Broadband mainstreamed 2000s and 2010s
• Wireless networking late 1990s
• GPS mainstreamed mid-2000s
• Satellite radio – circa 2001
• Smartphones widespread public application late 2000s early 2010s
• Tablet PCs 1990s (mainstream in 2010s)