History

Below I have include a quick summary of the history of everything that has has happened over the past 200 years that has lead upto the curent day multimedia world that we are living in:

1700's
- 1780: Franklin discovers electricity
1800's
- 1876: The telephone is invented
- 1888: Film Invented (Sequential photographs manually pulled through a projector)
1900-1949
- 1931: First calculator
- 1937: First full-length animation is released ("Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs")
- 1940: First colour TV broadcast
1950-1969
- 1956: First Trans-Atlantic telephone cable layed
- 1957: Sputnik launched (first space flight)
- 1960: Removable disks invented
- 1963: First home video tape recording
1970's
- 1972: First commercial video game (PONG)
- 1975: Microsoft is founded by Bill Gates
- 1978: First commercially available cell phone
- 1979: SONY introduces a portable audio cassette player ("Walkman")
1980's
- 1980: SONY introduces the consumer camcorder
- 1982: Computer-generated graphics in movies step forward with Disney's "Tron"
- 1984: Apple Computers introduces the Macintosh with the first mouse driven GUI (Graphical User Interface)
- 1988: Pixar's "Tin Toy" is the first computer-animated film to win an Academy Award
- 1989: Tim Berners at CERN proposes the world wide web
1990-present
- 1990: First browser demonstration
- 1993: Internet goes interactive with release of Mosaic browser
- 1995: Private ISP (internet service providers) becomes big business
- 2001: Broadband (ADSL) introduced to the masses

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