Timelines

Wikipedia List of Timelines 

Remote work 2020 - Technology history that enables it

What is remote work?

  • 1837 Telegraph, William Cooke and Charles Wheatstone demonstrated a 5 wire telegraph on the London and Birmingham railway
  • 1838 Morse code, Samuel Morse and Alfred Vail’s code of dots, dashes, and spaces allowed the use of single wire telegraph
  • 1868 Typewriter, Sholes and Glidden created first typewriter manufactured commercially, introduced the QWERTY keyboard layout
  • 1876 Telephone, Alexander Graham Bell received first US patent and successfully sent voice over electromagnetic wire, Tivadas Puskas invented the telephone switch (or exchange) 
  • 1936-1946 First Electronic Computers, in general computers were invented in the 19th century 
  • 1945 The modern CPU Architecture, the Von Neumann architecture is the basis for modern computers
  • 1954 Fortran, the first high level language used for scientific computation, invented by John Backus at IBM
  • 1956 Hard disk (HDD) introduced by IBM, most popular secondary storage since the 1960s until supplanted by SDD in 2010s
  • 1958-1959 Integrated Circuits, Jack Kilby at TI Robert Noyce at Fairchild invented the early version of the modern VLSI chip
  • 1959 COBOL, designed by CODASYL partly based on language FLOW-MATIC designed by Grace Hopper who popularized machine independent programming or high level language programming 
  • 1962 Operating Systems, the Atlas Supervisor is considered the first recognizable modern OS
  • 1969 The Internet, the first packets sent on 4 nodes on the ARPANET, precursor of the Internet
  • 1971 Microprocessor, first "true" microprocessor was the 4-bit Intel 4004
  • 1972 Email, Unix mail allowed Unix users to send text mails to other Unix user mailboxes
  • 1973 Mobile phone, The first handheld mobile phone was a 4.4 lb handset demonstrated at Motorola 
  • 1974 Personal Computer, the Altair 8800 computer gets the credit for the first PC
  • 1980 Instant Message, Unix talk and and BBS chat programs were precursors to modern instant message
  • 1984 Video Conference, PictureTel made one of the first teleconference system, following progress in telephony (IDSN) and video compression advances
  • 1987 flash memory, replaced storage such as tape, floppy, hard drive; gave rise to flash drives, memory cards, mass solid state storage 
  • 1990 World Wide Web, Tim Berners Lee invented the World Wide Web while working at CERN
  • 1996 USB, unified I/O interfaces for storage, power, printing, connectivity in general
  • 1997 WiFi, The first version of 802.11 had 2 Mbit/sec link speed, 1999 version had 11 Mbit/sec link speed
  • 2003 Skype, early provider of video and audio calls over the Internet
  • 2007 iPhone, Apple's iPhone was the first usable smartphone, it is a computer in your pocket
  • 2008 Android, Google's Android mobile operating system was free and open source, the first commercial device launched was the HTC Dream, aka T-Mobile G1, Android has high adoption by the mobile phone industry and largest market share
  • 2013 Slack, Business communication platform with chat rooms(channels), applications, APIs, etc.
  • 2014 Amazon Alexa, popularized voice assistants, even though Siri was introduced earlier (2011), Google and Alexa voice assistants became more popular

 

Television in 2020 - Stay home entertainment

History of Television

  • 1929 First black and white television demonstration, Vladimir Zworykin demonstrated a television system complete with a camera and picture tube.
  • 1941 First television commercial, broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1941 over New York station WNBT (now WNBC)
  • 1948 Cable TV, originally CATV (community antenna TV) was based on large antennas erected in remote or mountainous regions where over-the-air TV reception was limited and have a cable was run from them to individual homes. 
  • 1954 First color TV broadcast, NBC began a limited color television broadcast schedule in January 1954 using NTSC standard.
  • 1976 VHS, along with 1975 Betamax were the first medium for home video distribution, analog recording on magnetic tape
  • 1990 Digital Cable TV, General Instruments demonstrated that a High Definition TV could be compressed and delivered in a standard 6 MHz television channel.
  • 1995 ATSC, first digital television standard set, a forced switchover from analog NTSC to ATSC happened in 2009
  • 1996 DVD, initial form of digital home video distribution, also used for games distribution and other media on DVD-ROM
  • 2000-2009 Smart TV, major adoption of digital TVs enabled smart TVs in late 2000s
  • 2005 YouTube, it was started as a video sharing site, it became a very popular way to consume web video.
  • 2007 Streaming Television, digital video content  was now distributed over the Internet
  • 2007 Netflix, until 2007 Netflix was a DVD website, started offering streamed video content on the  Internet  in 2007
  • 2007 Apple TV, first-gen Apple TV introduced
  • 2008 Roku, first Roku streaming device for TVs introduced
  • 2011 Live streaming, Twitch, YouTube, Facebook, Twitter Periscope, and other options offer easy ways to do live streaming events.
  • 2019 Disney+, along with other major studios (such as Peacock, HBO Max, Paramount+, etc)  entry into direct to consumer (D2C) content distribution.

 

Music, News, and Radio in 2020 

History of Broadcasting, Timeline of Radio, History of music consumption

  • 1831 Electromagnetic induction, Faraday demonstrated electromagnetic induction in an experiment that generated current in a changing magnetic field
  • 1873 Electromagnetism, Maxwell published an article stating that electrical and magnetic forces were one force
  • 1879 Phonograph, invented by Thomas Edison, the audio was recorded in drums that later evolved to discs
  • 1895 Radio transmission, Marconi made the first known radio transmission for wireless telegraph at the Isle of Wight
  • 1903 music record, started the trend toward the LP records, vinyl started to be used after World War II
  • 1909 Radio broadcast in United States, Charles Herrold made the first US radio broadcast, the "San Jose Calling" (later KCBS) station
  • 1912 Amplifier, made possible by triode vaccum tube invented in 1907, mostly replaced by transistors in the 1950s
  • 1916 First regular broadcasts in 9XA  (later WHA), delivered in morse-code! Audio broadcasts started in 1919.
  • 1922 First radio commercial, WEAF (now WFAN) in New York City aired the first ad on August 28 for an apartment complex 
  • 1937 First FM radio transmission (on W1OXJ), invented by Edwin H Armstrong, an American inventor, patented in 1933
  • 1954 TR-1 transistor radio, made by Regency, Sony introduced a more portable radio in 1960 powered by batteries
  • 1963 Compact cassete, invented by Philips, became essential for music after the 1979 invention of the Sony Walkman
  • 1982 Compact disc, audio CDs were used for music distribution, but there were also CD-ROMs, CD-R, etc
  • 1993 MP3, aka MPEG-1 Audio or MPEG-1 Part3 is a coded for audio, basis for digital music distribution
  • 1999 Napster, pioneered music sharing on peer-to-peer (P2P) networks, initially controversial due to legality, later these types of services led to digital music distribution services like iTunes
  • 2001 iPod, first digital music player that was easy to use and discover and buy music on iTunes Store (opened in 2003)
  • 2004 Podcast, episodic audio content file that can be discovered and streamed, can be broad or long tail content
  • 2005 Streaming music and radio, streamed music on Pandora, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, etc
  • 2015 Auto-generated playlist, Discover weekly generated weekly on Monday based on user’s listening and other users listening to similar songs

 

Video Game History

based on Gameplay Documentary (watch on Tubi), other documentaries

Movies based on video games

  • 1961   Space War,   Univ of Utah - Steve Russell
  • 1971   Computer Space,  Nuttig Assoc (Atari) - Nolan Bushnell
  • 1972   Pong (arcade),   Al Acorn - Atari
  • 1973   Odyssey (home console), Magnavox - Ralph Baer - tennis, hockey, roulette
  • 1975   6502 Microprocessor,  MOS Technology  -  Chuck Peddle
  • 1975   Pong (home console),   Atari - Nolan Bushnell
  • 1975   Apple I (personal computer),   Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs - for homebrew computer club
  • 1977   Apple II (personal computer),  Apple - Steve Wozniak, Steve Jobs
  • 1977   Video Computer System (VCS) (cartridge home console),  Atari
  • 1977   Atari sold to Warner Communications (business deal)
  • 1978   Space Invaders (arcade),   Taito, Midway:US - Tomohiro Nishikado
  • 1979   Asteroids (arcade),   Atari - Lyle Rainds and Edd Logg
  • 1979   Activision, first independent game publisher (business deal)
  • 1980   Missile Command (arcade),   Atari - Dave Theurer
  • 1980   Pac Man (arcade),   Namco, Midway:US
  • 1980   Zork (text-based game),  Infocom - Anderson, Blank, Daniels, Lebling
  • 1980   Mystery House (adventure game),   Sierra Online - Roberta and Ken Williams 
  • 1981    Galaga (arcade),   Namco, Midway:US
  • 1981    Donkey Kong (arcade),    Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto
  • 1981   Dungeons and Dragons (RPG game),   Gary Gygax
  • 1981   IBM PC (personal computer),   IBM
  • 1983   Dragon Lair, cartoon game on laser disc,   Cinematronics - Don Bluth and Rick Dyer
  • 1984   Apple Macintosh (personal computer),   Apple
  • 1984   Raid on Buglied Bay (home-brew game),   Broderbund - Will Wright - basement coders
  • 1984   Excite Bike (game),   Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto
  • 1985   Super Mario Bros, bundled with SNES (home arcade game, fantasy),   Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto
  • 1986   The Legend of Zelda (game, fantasy),   Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto
  • 1986   Outrun, driving experience simulation (arcade),   Sega - Yu Suzuki  (sequel Outrun 2, 1990)
  • 1987   Leisure Suit Larry (adult game),   Sierra Online - Al Lowe
  • 1988   Galaxy Force 2, flying fighter jet simulation,  Sega - You Suzuki
  • 1988   Dance Dance Revolution (exercise game, arcade and home console),   Konami
  • 1989  Game Boy, initial release, the Game Boy Color was released in 1998
  • 1994  Playstation (CD-ROM game console with 3D games),   Sony - Ken Kutaragi
  • 1996   Super Mario 64 (game, fantasy),  Nintendo, Shigeru Miyamoto
  • 1997   Gran Turismo (driving game)
  • 2000 Playstation 2 (game console + DVD player), Sony - best selling console @ 155 million units
  • 2000 The Sims (game), Electronic Arts - Will Wright
  • 2001 Xbox
  • 2004 Nintendo DS
    2004 World of Warcraft (game), Blizzard - Rob Pardo, Jeff Kapaln, Tom Chilton
  • 2005 Guitar Hero (music instrument game), Activision, Harmonix
  • 2006 Nintendo Wii, uses the Wii remote as 3D controller, sought to broaden the game play to a larger user base
  • 2006 Tamagochi (first mobile social game), virtual pet game
  • 2007 Wii Fit
  • 2008 Grand Theft Auto (GTA) IV, Rockstar - Dan Houser
  • 2009 Farmville (social media game), Zynga
  • 2010 Kinect for Xbox
  • 2011  Brain wave prototype, Haier
  • 2012 Google Glass (AR device), Google - AR with practical uses
  • 2017 Nintendo Switch, a hybrid portable and home console
  • 2020 Neuralink (brain chip implant) - Elon Musk

Pinball Machines History

Finance, Mortgages, and Credit

  • 1896: Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) was first calculated, consists of the average of 30 prominent companies traded on US stock market
  • 1934: US Congress created Federal Housing Authority (FHA) to insure mortgages 
  • 1938: US Congress created Fannie Mae or Federal National Mortgage Corporation, buys mortgage loans from lenders and sell them to investors on the secondary market. This provides more cash for lenders to make more loans
  • 1949: Housing Act expanded the FHA authority to issue mortgage insurance to lenders
  • 1958: American Express launched the charge card, Bankamericard first launched later became Visa credit card (history).
  • 1968: US Congress created Ginnie Mae or Government National Mortgage Association, to expand availability of affordable housing
  • 1969: magnetic strip in credit card became standard, invented by IBM engineer Forrest Perry.
  • 1970: US Congress created Freddie Mac or Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to assist Fannie Mae's effort
  • 1984: credit card chip technology launched, invented in France by Forrest Moreno

Science Fiction Books and Videos

21 best sci-go books

  • 1666 The Blazing World, by Margaret Cavendish
  • 1818  Frankenstein, by Mary Shelley
  • 1865. From Earth to the Moon, by Jules Verne
  • 1895. The time machine, by H G Wells
  • 1898. The war of the worlds, by H G Wells
  • 1951  Foundation, by Isaac Asimov 
  • 1957  The Stars My Destination, by Alfred Bester
  • 1961  Solaris, by Stanislaw Lem
  • 1965  Dune, by Frank Herbert
  • 1966. The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, by Robert Heinlein
  • 1966. Star Trek
  • 1967.  Ice, by Anna Kavan
  • 1968. 2001 A Space Odyssey
  • 1969. The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin
  • 1977. A Scanner Darkly, by Philip K Dick
  • 1979. Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler
  • 1979 Hitchhiker’s guide to the galaxy. by Douglas Adams
  • 1984. Neuromancer, by William Gibson
  • 1987. Consider Phlebas, by Iain Banks
  • 1989. Hyperion, by Dan Simmons
  • 1990. Jurassic Park, by Michael Crichton
  • 1992. Snow Crash, by Neal Stephenson
  • 2002. Metro 2033, by Dmitry Glukhovsky
  • 2003. Oryx and Crake, by Margaret Atwood
  • 2008. The Three-Body Problem, Liu Cixin
  • 2011. Prophets of Science Fiction
  • 2015. The Heart Goes Last, by Margaret Atwood
  • 2015. The Martian, by Andy Weir 

Homo Sapiens and Recent History

A brief history of humankind, by Yuval Noah Hariri

  • 14 Billion years ago: Big Bang, energy, matter, time space came into being, the story of the fundamental features of the universe is called physics 
  • 300,000 years later, particles coalesced into atoms, and atoms grouped into molecules: the story of molecules and their interactions is called chemistry
  • 4 billion years ago, on a planet called Earth, certain molecules combined to form particularly large and intricate structures called organisms. The story of organisms is called biology.
  • 70,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens organisms started to form complex structures: the development of these human cultures is called history
  • 12,000 years ago, humans settled down and started the Agriculture Revolution
  • 1453, Fall of Constantinople, land trade (silk road) to India and China became difficult, leading to search for sea trade routes
  • 1492, End of Reconquista, the Scientific Revolution got started, the “discovery of America” marks this seminal moment, admitting “I don’t know“ allowed scientific discovery - favor observation over past traditions
  • 1517, Martin Luther published the 95 thesis, he was against sale of indulgences
  • 1648, Peace of Westphalia is the start of modern international relations, inviolability of borders of sovereign states
  • 1687, Isaac Newton published The Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy, science uses the language of mathematics 
  • 1760, start of industrial revolution in Britain, 1776 James Watt improved Thomas Newcomen’s steam engine
  • 1776, Adam Smith published the Wealth of Nations
  • 1789, French Revolution, start of contemporary age
  • 1945 05:29:45 on 16 July, American scientists detonated the first atomic bomb at Alamogordo

Math (timeline)

Physics

Chemistry

  • 1909: Haber process was first used to produce synthetic ammonia for fertilizers

Trips

  • 2004, Japan, Taiwan
  • 2008, Hawaii cruise
  • 2009, Alaska cruise
  • 2010, Mexico cruise
  • 2012, Caribbean cruise
  • 2015, Thailand, Taiwan
  • 2016, Puerto Rico, England, Italy, Switzerland
  • 2017, Cuba
  • 2018, Japan
  • 2019, Brazil

 

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