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Image credits: anon #9. 2 Things. Completed products. Before the rise of online gaming all games had to be completed before they could be pushed out and you couldn't really do upgrades (although ...
5. Play-Doh. Who: Kay Zufall, Brian, Joseph McVicker, Bill Rhodenbaugh When: 1956 . How it was created: The gooey toy kids have been playing with for decades began as a household cleaning product ...
Technologies that were never successfully developed, may have disappeared completely. [2] These are not contained in the following list. Also not included are spurious inventions - technologies which are generally considered to not possess their claimed capabilities, to be hoaxes, or to not have ever existed in the first place.
The world's very first computer virus and computer antivirus, respectively. Conway's Game of Life: A simple game with only four rules that people have made beautifully complex machines with. It even has the ability to self-replicate! See also Brian's Brain above. Electric unicycle: The ongoing academic effort to teach robots to ride unicycles.
1971: IBM developed and released the world's first floppy disk and disk drive. [502] 1972: The first video game console, used primarily for playing video games on a TV, is the Magnavox Odyssey. [503] 1973: The first fiber optic communication systems were developed by Optelecom. [504]
From the first Apple computer to the COVID-19 vaccine, here are the most revolutionary inventions that were born in the U.S.A. in the past half-century.
However, blind experiments have never conclusively found a difference between the sound of Stradivari's violins and other high-quality violins. [8] Starlite is an intumescent material said to withstand enormous amounts of heat. [6] Zhang's seismoscope, also known as hòufēng dìdòngyí, an ancient Chinese seismometer.
On March 12, 2007, The New York Times reported that Spacewar! was named to a list of the ten most important video games in history, the so-called game canon, which were proposed to be archived in the Library of Congress. [39] The Library of Congress took up this video game preservation proposal and began with the games from this list.