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Year	Telephony	Television and Radio	Computing	Data Transfer	Music	Photography	Movies	Year
1950					Juke Box (45 rpm) Picture. Wiki			1950
1951		Pirate Radio Wiki	Magnetic Core Memory Magnetic toroids in a 32 x 32 array can be magnetised in one direction or another by horizontal or vertical current and then their state read out by additional diagonal wires, giving the ability to store and read 1024 bits of information (128 bytes). Origin of the term "core" for system memory (hence "core dump"). Superseded by semiconductor memory in mid-1970s. Picture. Wiki					1951
1952						Kodak Brownie 127 Picture. Wiki		1952
1953							Cinemascope Picture. Wiki	1953
1954								1954
1955								1955
1956			Disk Drive Picture. Wiki					1956
1957		Sony TR-63 pocket transistor radio Picture. Wiki						1957
1958	National direct dialling without operator							1958
1959								1959
1960				Laser Picture. Wiki				1960
1961			Integrated Circuit Picture. Wiki	Light Emitting Diode Picture. Wiki				1961
1962	Telstar 1 Picture. Wiki	Standard Definition TV Wiki			Portable Record Player Picture. Wiki			1962
1963	International direct dialling without operator				Cassette Tape Picture. Wiki	Kodak Instamatic Picture. Wiki		1963
1964	Syncom 3 Picture. Wiki		IBM 360 Mainframe Computer Picture. Wiki					1964
1965			PDP-8 Minicomputer Picture. Wiki	Packet switching data transfer Wiki				1965
1966								1966
1967		Colour Television Picture. Wiki						1967
1968	Trimphone (dial) Picture. Wiki							1968
1969				ARPANET Wiki				1969
1970				Unix Picture. Wiki				1970
1971			Microprocessor Picture. Wiki					1971
1972				C Program Picture. Wiki		Kodak Pocket Instamatic Picture. Wiki		1972
1973								1973
1974		Ceefax (Teletext) Picture. Wiki	Pocket Calculator Picture. Wiki					1974
1975								1975
1976		VHS Video Recorder Picture. Wiki						1976
1977	Fibre-Optic Connection Picture. Wiki			RSA Encryption Wiki				1977
1978		Satellite TV Picture. Wiki						1978
1979			Atari Microcomputer Picture. Wiki		Walkman Picture. Wiki			1979
1980	Trimphone (button) Picture. Wiki							1980
1981			IBM PC Picture. Wiki MS DOS Picture. Wiki	Internet Protocol Version 4 Wiki				1981
1982					Compact Disc Picture. Wiki			1982
1983	Mobile Phone Picture. Wiki				MIDI Picture. Wiki			1983
1984			Macintosh Picture. Wiki					1984
1985			Windows Picture. Wiki					1985
1986								1986
1987			IBM PS/2 Picture. Wiki Graphics Interchange Format (GIF) Wiki					1987
1988		Liquid Crystal Screen Picture. Wiki				Fujifilm Fujix DS-1P Picture. Wiki		1988
1989								1989
1990				World Wide Web Picture. Wiki				1990
1991			Powerbook Picture. Wiki Flash Memory Picture. Wiki					1991
1992	Pocket Mobile Phone Picture. Wiki					JPEG Compression Wiki		1992
1993					MP3 Compression Wiki			1993
1994								1994
1995							MPEG-2 Compression Wiki	1995
1996							Digital Video Camera Picture. Wiki DVD Picture. Wiki	1996
1997								1997
1998		Digital TV Picture. Wiki		Google Picture. Wiki			MPEG-4 Compression Wiki	1998
1999								1999
2000								2000
2001				Wikipedia Picture. Wiki	iPod Picture. Wiki			2001
2002								2002
2003				Myspace Picture. Wiki				2003
2004								2004
2005		YouTube Picture. Wiki				Casio Exilim ZR-10 A rapidly reacting pocket digital camera (range) with the ability to take high speed picture bursts and thus make high speed movies at reasonable quality and resolutions, as well as avoiding the slow shutter reaction speed of competitors. Within 10 years many of these features were available on smartphones and the line was discontinued in 2018. However they remain in demand. Picture. Wiki		2005
2006				Twitter Picture. Wiki				2006
2007	iPhone Picture. Wiki							2007
2008								2008
2009	Whatsapp Picture. Wiki							2009
2010								2010
2011								2011
2012								2012
2013								2013
2014								2014
2015								2015
2016								2016
2017								2017
2018								2018
2019								2019
2020								2020
2021								2021
2022								2022

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