The Skriker Actor Packet
The Skriker Actor Packet
The Skriker Actor Packet
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1946 <strong>The</strong> first commercial mobile phone becomes available.<br />
1949 Cable TV is born. CATV (Community Atenna Television) is<br />
! developed in the mountains ! of Pennsylvania.<br />
1951 First video tape is recorded.<br />
! <strong>The</strong> first commercial ‘general purpose’ computer becomes<br />
! available.<br />
1952 Floppy disk: Yoshiro Nakamatsu [<br />
! <strong>The</strong> first fusion, or hydrogen, bomb is tested by the US in the<br />
! Marshall Islands. A single warhead can now be thousands of times<br />
! more powerful than the Hiroshima bomb.<br />
1953 Medical ultrasonography<br />
1956 Videotape recorder: Ampex<br />
1960 <strong>The</strong> laser is demonstrated for the first time....Various prototype laser<br />
! weapons are under development.<br />
1961 Digital Photography: Eugene F. Lally<br />
1968 Video game console: Ralph H. Baer<br />
1969 Video cassette: Sony<br />
1971 Sony sells the first VCR for $2500.<br />
! E-mail: Ray Tomlinson [284]<br />
1973 Personal computer: Xerox PARC<br />
! Computer graphics are used for the first time in the Motion Picture Industry when<br />
! the movie “Westworld” is produced.<br />
1974 <strong>The</strong> first Taser is built after five years of work by NASA researcher Jack Cover.<br />
1975 Digital camera: Steven Sasson<br />
! <strong>The</strong> first home computer is developed and sold.<br />
! HBO begins broadcasting.<br />
! <strong>The</strong> “Homebrew Computer Club” is started in what will one day become Silicon Valley<br />
! in California.<br />
1976 <strong>The</strong> Queen of England becomes the first “Head of State” to<br />
! write an email message.<br />
1977 Personal stereo: Andreas Pavel<br />
! Mobile phone: Bell Labs [8<br />
1978 Nintendo releases its first video game.<br />
! <strong>The</strong> first working cell phones appear in Tokyo, Japan.<br />
1979 Walkman: Sony<br />
1980 Compact Disc: Sony Corp, Philips Electronics [18]<br />
1981 <strong>The</strong> first “portable” computer is developed, which would be a<br />
precursor to the laptop.<br />
1982 Compact Disc player: Sony [288]<br />
1983 INTERNET - Computers are using the TCP/IP computer language to communicate<br />
! within the Internet network...and the ‘backbone’ for the internet is finally set in place.<br />
! Microsoft announces the sale of “Windows.”<br />
1983 Color LCD television: Seiko [291][292]<br />
1984 DSS (Direct TV) Satellite TV goes online.
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