Inventions Timeline

1983  camcorder was invented by Sony   

1983  compact discs (CDs) are launched as a new way to store music by the Sony and Philips corporations.   

1983  Cellular phones in U.S.: mobile phones for cars, transportable phones carried in a case, and portable phones carried in hand   

1984  laserdisc storage   

1987  larry Hornbeck, working at Texas Instruments, develops DLP® projection—now used in many projection TV systems.   

1988  facsimile (fax) machine   

1989  Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web   

1990  World Wide Web was invented by Tim Berners-Lee   

1990  German watchmaking company Junghans introduces the MEGA 1, believed to be the world's first radio-controlled wristwatch   

1991  Linus Torvalds creates the first version of Linux, a collaboratively written computer operating system   

1994  American-born mathematician John Daugman perfects the mathematics that make iris scanning systems possible   

1994  Israeli computer scientists Alon Cohen and Lior Haramaty invent VoIP for sending telephone calls over the Internet   

1994  digital camera   

1995  Broadcast.com becomes one of the world's first online radio stations   

1995  Pierre Omidyar launches the eBay auction website   

1995  DVD (digital video disk)   

1995  DVD (digital video disk)   

1996  WRAL-HD broadcasts the first high-definition television (HDTV) signal in the United States   

1997  Electronics companies agree to make Wi-Fi a worldwide standard for wireless Internet   

1998  More than 20 percent of all U.S. households are online   

2001  digital satellite radio   

2001  apple revolutionizes music listening by unveiling its iPod MP3 music player.   

2001  richard Palmer develops energy-absorbing D3O plastic.   

2001  The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is founded by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales   

2001  Bram Cohen develops BitTorrent file-sharing   

2001  Scott White, Nancy Sottos, and colleagues develop self-healing materials   

2002  iRobot Corporation releases the first version of its Roomba® vacuum cleaning robot   

2003  Camera phones   

2004  Electronic voting plays a major part in a controversial US Presidential Election   

2004  Andre Geim and Konstantin Novoselov discover graphene   

2005  A pioneering low-cost laptop for developing countries called OLPC is announced by MIT computing pioneer Nicholas Negroponte   

2007  amazon.com launches its Kindle electronic book (e-book) reader.   

2007  apple introduces a touchscreen cellphone called the iPhone.   

2010  Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad   

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