Tinhat
On the Digital Age
Timelines
Approximate dates for the introduction of digital technology.
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| CD music | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Public Internet | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Digital photography | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Digital mobile phones | GPS | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Digital TV transmission | |||||||||||||||||||||
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| Year | 1970 | 1975 | 1980 | 1985 | 1990 | 1995 | 2000 | 2005 | 2010 | 2015 | |||||||||||
Ancient history
For some perspective, here's a longer term view
| Binary systems used by everybody including Chinese diviners and African drummers | European scientific Binary system (Leibniz) | Charles Babbage and the Difference Engine | Morse Code, a primitive form of digital communication in Ternary (base 3) not Binary (base 2) | Alan Turing and the Automatic Computing Engine | First transistors | Digital Age |
| First millennium | 1700 | 1830 | 1836 | 1937 | 1948 | 1980 |
