This project was such an awesome idea for presenting on the different forms of technology. I learned so many new things about these devices which I have known about for years. Netflix is a streaming site that I use every day. They revolutionized streaming for the modern age and pushed DVD rentals into extinction. Netflix started out exclusively as a rental service, but when their streaming software became fast enough, they ended their DVD production. This was Netflix's biggest controversy because they were one of the most popular DVD rental services.
Streaming services are very useful today, but would not be around if the TV was not invented. The world's first tv was invented by Philo Taylor Farnsworth. TV originally was in black and white but switched to color in 1954 by the network CNN.
On the topic of media, Facebook is one of the most popular social networking services. However, it was originally intended to be exclusively for Harvard and was going to be named The Harvard Connection in 2003.
Without newspapers, we would have never had communicative websites like Facebook. The newspaper started in Britain in the 1640s and was called the British News Books. A form of communication that existed even before newspapers was the telegraph. The development of the telegraph was the voltaic cell in the 1800s which made it possible to power electric devices on a very low voltage.
One of the most interesting facts I learned from a group presentation was that drones were actually invented in 1782 by the Montgolfier Brothers. The design was a simple balloon such as a hot air balloon. They had simple purposes at first such as filming from a different view, but now they are used to discover areas we cannot access on land and capture images and video of stupendous monuments.
All of these inventions were crucial to the electronic world we live in now. Also, there will be even more inventions within even the next twenty years that will pave the way for the future electronic world.
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