Technology+1970-1994

Tell the World Their Story
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 * Since your parents were born, what has happened in the Technology? **

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It all started on April first,1976, with two guys named Steve, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak. The first personal computer was hand built by Steve Wozniak but it was steves friend, Steve Jobs, that gave him the idea to sell these computers. The Apple I was Apple’s first product, which was presented at the homebrew computer club in Palo Alto, California in April 1976. It was then put on the market for a sale of 666.66, because Steve and steve originally sold it to a local store for 500$ and had decided to add 1/3 of the original price which was 166.666, which is how they got their price.=====

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Apple I was the first personal computer to have a keyboard but most credit should go to the MOS Technology KIM-1, Datapoint 2200, or more typically, the Altair 8800 the first computer. Only about 200 Apple 1 computers were made in total. Excited by their success, Woz went on to design the Apple II.=====

After Wozniak had completed design on the Apple 1, he already had enhancements in mind that would make his computer faster and better. He also wanted to make it display in color, and give it sound.
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** The First Portable Cellular Telephone **
Martin Cooper First cell phone History (wikipedia)

1986: Electronic games from Nintendo debut.
The Nintendo 8-bit video gaming system started to become popular in North America, Europe, and Australia in 1985. In 1983 China, Vietnam, Singapore, and the Philippines it was released as a family computer, also known as a Famicom. In South Asia it was succeeded as the Super Nintendo Entertainment System. Following the video game crash of 1983 the NES (Nintendo Entertainment System) helped bring back the US Video game industry, thus helping the Nintendo become the best-selling game of all time. In the early 80's Nintendo had a series of arcade game successes, Nintendo had plans to produce a cartridge-based console, they released it in Japan on July 15, 1983 alongside with their 3 most popular games Donkey Kong, Donkey Kong Jr., and Popeye. It was slow to gather popularity and it had a bad set of chips that caused the system to crash.



[|Nintendo Entertainment System History] [|Nintendo History] [|The History of Nintendo]
 * By : Richard C. & Adam K.**

Microsoft Corporation is established in 1975
Microsoft- Have you ever heard of the Atlair 8800? The Atlair 8800 was an M.I.T.S. product. It was a computer. The Intel 8080 inspired the Atlair 8800. Intel released the Intel 8080 sometime in the year of 1974, 2 years after the Intel 8008. Bill Gates and Paul Allen of M.I.T.S., later formed Microsoft after hearing of their success with their product, “The Atlair 8800.” Microsoft was officially founded in April of 1975.

Many people know Microsoft for their success with X-box Live and the X-box/X-box 360 video game console. Before the X-box video game console had been created, Microsoft had a great success with the Microsoft Disk Operating System, or, “MS-DOS.” This system likely sold well for it’s video games. The original, “Doom,” had been released for the MS-DOS. Other games released on the MS-DOS included: Castle Wolfenstein, Duke Nukem, and Quake.

Along with the X-box 360, Microsoft continues selling their, “Windows,” products and applications. Microsoft is also currently working on an entirely controller-free game system currently named, “Project Natal.” Their latest computers sell very well and make them much of their money. Many households have, “Windows Vista,” or other, “Windows,” computers, do you?

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In 1989, the World Wide Web was developed by English computer scientist Timothy Berners-Lee for the European Organization For Nuclear Research. The theoretical goal of the Internet was to provide quality information to the public and to be able to collaborate with others. It was originally developed for universities and students to communicate and to have a higher education system. Today, it hosts mainly as the basis for an online society, ruled (for the most part) by teenagers. You can listen to music, watch videos, and talk to almost anyone in the world. A significant amount of the world's population practically lives on the Internet, unknowing of what life was like before its conception. (A primitive form of the Internet existed in 1973, as a computer network system for ARPA. However, instead of the entire world, it only connected several universities and research laboratories.)

The Internet works by connecting local gateway networks through special computers. Telephone lines, optical, fibers, radio links, and other communication paths connect gateways to each other. The Internet uses an enumeration of addressing formats, the most common of which is simply the name of the destination computer along with a period and a suffix that determines what kind of organization owns the information. Once the information is addressed, it leaves its home networking station for a gateway. It passes through several of these gateways until it reaches its destination. Internets have no central computer to direct the information, so internets are separate from other online services, such as the Microsoft Network. @http://www.ideafinder.com/history/inventions/internet.htm
 * By: Jacob K., Kyle P., and Christopher F.**

The original cassette-based walkman was blue and sliver. Japan was the first country to sell the Walkman Cassette Players. The sale began on July 1st, 1979. When the Walkmans came out, it came with a pair of headphones, and it also had two headphone jacks that way two people were able to listen to music. Although, the music wasn't clear like it is now it worked. Some of the Walkmans were able to record sounds, but those didn't come out until 1984. Those Walkmans had higher quality sounds and it sounded better. Still to this day, they use the "Walkman" name. Some of there products that were introduced later down the line were the "Discman". The Discman was able to play CDs. That wasn't introduced until the early '90s. media type="file" key="The_Popularity_of_VCRs_and_Walkmans.mov" width="300" height="300" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walkman http://lowendmac.com/orchard/06/sony-walkman-origin.html
 * Sony Walkman ** [[image:first_sony_walkman.jpeg align="left"]] The first Sony Walkman was made in 1978. The idea of making a Sony Walkman was made up by audio division engineer Nobutoshi Kihara. It was for Sony Co- Chairman Akio Morita so he could listen to his opera during his constant plane trips. The original Walkman was marketed in Japan, United States and the UK in 1979. Akio Morita hated the name "Walkman" and asked for it to be changed. The Promotion Campaign told Morita that it would stay 'Walkman' because it was to expensive to change it.
 * By: Sasa M.**