WEEK 2 "The History of Communication Technology"

This week I’ve looked at the timelines of Communication Technology.I was particularly interested in the technologies that were launch since 1995 the year I was born. 

1995     America Online, CompuServe, and Prodigy begin offering dial-up internet service.   

1995     Microsoft introduces Windows95.
1995     Jeff Bezos launches Amazon.com as online book seller.
1995    eBAY, online auction site, begins business.
1995     Craigslist, created by Craig Newmark becomes online service in San Francisco.
1998    Larry Page and Sergey Brin found Google while at Stanford.
1998    PayPal begins business.
1998    Apple’s iMAC computer is first in its line of iProducts.
1999    Peak of the dot.com financial bubble which burst two years later
2000     Computer glitch, Y2K, expected with new millennium.
2000     Google begins selling advertisements based on search words.
2001     Wikipedia, an online encyclopedia, is launched.
2003     MySpace is created by eUniverse employees; sold to News Corporation in 2005 for $580 million.
2005    Youtube is launched; sold to Google a year later for $1.65 billion.
2007    Apple’s iPHONE is introduced.
2008    Apple launches its iPAD.  


Living in this generation makes me wonder how my parents reacted to these technologies when they were first introduced. For my generation we seem not to be so much surprised anymore. Anything that you could imagine could possibly be generated in a couple of years. For example the IPhones, our expectations rise every year and yet Apple launches a new IPhone every year.

It’s also interesting how ten years ago you would have the technology characterized as The world History Site  for example; photography, telephone, television etc. However, we now bind these technologies all together. Smart phone does not only have one purpose to call or text anymore, but we now use them to take photos, go on the Internet.

You could never guess what will be next.