Technology of My Lifetime

       On the first day of my information systems class, we spent about 10 minutes reminiscing about technology. It got me thinking about the technology that has been developed in my lifetime. I was born in 1994 and a lot has happened since then. The following is a list of technology and events that I feel have been impactful in my lifetime. Feel free to comment if you think of anything too.

New 21^st Century Technology:

*Special tech of the 1990s still used in 21^st century = Internet Explorer (1995), GPS (1995), DVDs (1997), Bluetooth (1998), Netflix (1998), Blogs (1999), WI-FI (1999)

2000

Toyota Prius (2000)

Texting on phones by AT&T (2000)

USB flash drive (2000)

Playstation 1 and Playstation 2 (2000)

George W. Bush elected President (2000)

2001

iPod (2001) and iTunes (2001)

9/11 World Trade Towers (Sep. 11^th, 2001)

Segway (2001)

Windows XP (2001)

Gamecube (2001)

Xbox (2001)

Wikipedia (2001)

2002

Camera Phones (2002)

GoPro (2002)

2003

Myspace (2003)

LinkedIn (2003)

Skype (2003)

Mini Smart Cars (2003)

Microsoft Office (2003)

Human Genome Project completed (2003)

Columbia space shuttle disaster (2003)

Safari web browser (2003)

BlueRay (2003)

2004

Google search engine (1998 and public 2004)

Facebook (2004)

Rovers reached Mars (2004)

TIVO & DVR by DirectTV (2004)

Firefox web browser (2004)

2005

Google Maps (2005)

Youtube (2005)

Playstation Portable PSP (2005)

XBOX 360 (2005)

Hurricane Katrina (2005)

2006

Twitter (2006)

The Cloud (2006)

Wii (2006)

PS3 (2006)

No more planet Pluto (2006)

2007

iPhone (2007)

Android (2007)

Kindle (2007)

Netflix streaming (2007)

2008

Appstore (2008)

Google Chrome web browser (2008)

Barack Obama elected President (2008)

2009

3D movie Avatar (2009)

Last year with Simon Cowell on American Idol (2009)

2010

Instagram (2010)

Smartboards (2010)

3D TVs (2010)

iPad (2010)

2011

Snapchat (2011)

Increased Solar panel usage (2011)

2012

Wii U (2012)

Sandy Hook School Shooting (2012)

2013

PS4 (2013)

XBOX 1 (2013)

Google Chromecast (2013)

2014

Apple Pay (2014)

3D Printing (2014)

Jimmy Fallon Tonight Show (2014)

2015

Apple Smartwatch (2015)

2015

Self-driving cars (2015)

2016

Cavaliers win NBA finals (2016)

Cubs win world series (2016)

Donald Trump elected President (2016)

2017

???

Outdated Technology (as of 2017)

Kodak cameras

CDs

Borders bookstore

VCRs

Walkman headphones

CD players with the skinny headphones

MySpace

AIM – instant messaging

Flip phones

The large turquoise iPods and iPod nanos

Limewire (2000)

Atlas maps

Dial Up/ AOL

Floppy disks

Cassettes

Camcorders

Landlines

Answering Machines

Old Televisions; now Plasma and LED

MP3 players

Wristwatches

Pay phones

Phones with the spiral wire and neck cradling

Typewriters

Radio? Now streaming and satellite

Pagers

Original handwriting

Dot matrix paper printers

Fax machines

PS1 and PS2 (2000) / Nintendo/ Gamecube (2001)/ Xbox (2001)

Hope you enjoyed reminiscing!

-Brody