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 It superseded the original NeXT Computer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.