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Introduction To Digital Media Foundations

Shauna Murray-Coke

2015

Windows

program

invented by

Microsoft.

The World Wide Web and Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.

Tim Berners-Lee, Inventor of World Wide Web (WWW)

The Pentium

processor invented.

Linus Torvalds, at age21, writes an operating system called Linux, bringing the open-source movement into the mainstream.

Internet Explorer 2.0 web browser was introduced.

DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or Digital Video Disc) were invented.

Web TV was invented.

HD-ROM is announced by Norsam Technologies.

HD-ROM (High-Density - Read Only Memory) is a high-capacity storage technology developed at Norsam Technologies in conjunction with an IBM research group that enables a disk to store hundreds of times as much information as a CD-ROM.

HD-ROM technology can be used to write data on different types of media, such as metal or other durable materials, to create virtually indestructible storage.

Microsoft Windows 98 was released.

Apple introduces the iMac, which revolutionized the PC industry with its design, along with some key features such as the inclusion of USB ports and the purposeful exclusion of a floppy drive.

Bluetooth, a short range wireless networking standard, is announced.

Macintosh OS X was released.

Windows XP was released.

Universal Serial Bus 2.0 (USB) was released. Building on USB 1.0 introduced in 1995, this serial bus can connect up to 127 devices, supports speeds of up to 480Mbps, allows plug-and-play and hot-swapping.

The first 64-bit processor, AMD’s Athlon 64, becomes available to the consumer market.

Google began to work with the libraries of Harvard, Stanford, the University of Michigan, and the University of Oxford as well as The New York Public Library to digitize books from their collections and make them searchable in Google.

USB Flash Drives flourish and their solid state, inexpensive, pocketable storage media are taking all kinds of shapes and sizes and used widely around the world.

Twitter was founded, bringing forth a new social networking tool based on brief updates or tweets.

Windows was invented.

The Apple and other Android phone companies brought many computer functions to the smartphone.

Version 1.0 of iRODS, a data grid software system, was released by the San Diego Supercomputer Center's Data Intensive Cyber Environments (DICE) group.

Microsoft launches Windows 7, which offers the ability to pin applications to the taskbar and advances in touch and handwriting recognition, among other features.

The World digital library is launched.

All Television broadcasting in the U.S. went digital by June 12, 2009.

Apple unveils the iPad, changing the way consumers view media and jumpstarting the dormant tablet computer segment.

Google released the Chromebook,

a laptop that runs

the Google Chrome OS.

Facebook gains 1 billion online users.

Apple released the Apple Watch.

Microsoft released Windows 10.

Android smart phones such as the Galaxy series by Samsung and iPhone series by Apple and other brands are becoming more and more popular as the age of the blackberry smartphones are rapidly decreasing in popularity and going outdated.

Children are now owners of their own tablets for school and personal use.