1901

The first radio receiver,

successfully received a radio
transmission. First form of
electronic entertainment.
 1907

Color photography invented by

Auguste and Louis Lumiere.
 1922
The first 3-D movie (spectacles
with one red and one green
lens) is released. Changing the
way we view movies.
 1927
Philo Taylor Farnsworth invents
a complete electronic TV
system.
 1929
Paul Galvin invents the car
radio. Entertainment becomes
mobile.
 1932
Polaroid photography invented
by Edwin Herbert Land. New,
easier way of developing
photographs.
 1937
Chester F. Carlson invents the
photocopier. Quicker way of
mass producing text.
 1940
Peter Goldmark invents
modern colour television
system.
 1946
The microwave oven invented
by Percy Spencer. Cooking just
became so much easier!
 1951
Charles Ginsburg invented the
first video tape recorder (VTR).
 1962
The audio cassette invented.

Spacewar, the first computer

video game invented.
 1965

The compact disk invented by

James Russell.
 1967
The first handheld calculator
invented.
 1970
The floppy disk invented by
Alan Shugart.
 1971
The liquid-crystal display (LCD)
invented by James Fergason.

VCR or videocassette invented.

 1972
The word processor invented.

Pong first video game invented

by Nolan Bushnell.
 1979
Cell phones invented.

Walkman invented.
 1984
The CD-ROM invented.

The Apple Macintosh invented.

 1985
Windows program invented by
Microsoft.
 1990
The World Wide Web and
Internet protocol (HTTP) and
WWW language (HTML)
created by Tim Berners-Lee.
 1995
DVD (Digital Versatile Disc or
Digital Video Disc) invented.
The first digital cameras for the
consumer-level market that
worked with a home computer
via a serial cable were the
Apple QuickTake 100 camera
(February 17 , 1994), the
Kodak DC40 camera (March 28,
1995), the Casio QV-11 (with
LCD monitor, late 1995), and
Sony's Cyber-Shot Digital Still
Camera (1996).
 2001

On October 23, 2001 Apple

Computers publicly announced
their portable music digital
player the iPod.
 2005
YouTube - the online video
sharing and viewing
community - was invented in
2005 by Steve Chen, Chad
Hurley and Jawed Karim.