25 Years of Technology Evolution and Change

25 Years of Technology Evolution and Change

• 1988:
  Insight is founded by the Crown Brothers in Tempe Arizona
• 1989:
  On 1st August Microsoft releases a suite of desktop applications called office. This first version contains Word, Excel and Powerpoint
• 1990:
  Development of the World Wide Web begins. Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues at CERN create HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), standardizing communication between servers and clients.
• 1990: 
  Cisco goes public on February 16, 1990, listed as “CSCO” on the NASDAQ
• 1990:
  Photoshop 1.o released on February 19th for Macintosh
• 1993:
  Intel release the first processor containing over 3 million transistors
• 1995:
  Microsoft releases Internet Explorer as part of an add-on package for windows 95 names Plus!
• 1995:
  Digital Versatile Discst or DVDs are invented by Philips, Sony, Toshiba & Panasonic
• 1995:
  Microsoft combine formally separate MS-DOS products to create products Windows 95
• 1995:
  Jeff Bezos launches online bookstore, Amazon.com
• 1998:
  Larry Page and Serge Brin create Google Inc setting up a workplace in Susan Wojcicki’s garage
• 1999:
  Shawn Fanning, John Fanning and Sean Parker launch peer-peer file sharing service, Napster
• 2001:
  Apple release their first line of portable media players named the iPod
• 2004:
  Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook a social network for Harvard students
• 2006:
  Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass launch Twitter, a micro blogging and social networking service
• 2007:
  Apple release the first generation iPhone named the iPhone 2G
• 2008:
  The first Android powered phone, the T-mobile G1 goes on sale
• 2008:
  Bill gates retires from day to day operations at Microsoft to focus on philanthropy and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation
• 2010:
  Amid much speculation Apple release their first line of tablets PCs named the ipad
• 2011:
  Apple founder and visionary Jobs sadly dies after a long battle with Pancreatic Cancer
• 2012:
  Microsoft releases the Surface Tablets, the first initiative to integrate its Windows OS with its own hardware
• 2012:
  EE launch the first 4th generation (4g) mobile services in the UK
• 2013:
  IPv6 launches to handle the ever increasing number of new devices connecting to the internet