How groundbreaking ideas were brought to life
In 1995 Microsoft released a new operating system after a $300 million marketing campaign
In 1993, a lightbulb moment led to the invention of the first white light emitting diode
23 April 1996, saw the first World Book Day. It originated from a Spanish tradition
In April 2005, the first video was posted onto YouTube
In 1998, the Snake game made its debut on mobile phones
In 1955, entrepreneur and engineer Yoshitada Minami, revolutionised rice cooking
In 1915, two rival electricity pioneers were told they would share a Nobel Prize
In 2006 police raided the popular but controversial file-sharing website The Pirate Bay
In 1937, American supermarket owner Sylvan Goldman wanted his customers to spend more.
The Global Positioning System, also known as GPS, was created in the late 1970s
In 1951, Harry Coover noticed a chemical he was working with was sticking to everything
In May 1960 a Norwegian toy-maker unveiled a life-sized, life-like training manikin
In 2000, two Polish students started creating a smart speaker which sounded human
In 1948, the first stored-program computer the ‘Baby’ was invented
In 2002, the 'Ken Burns effect' was created.
In the 1970s, Norwegian Tor Sornes invented the hotel key card
In 1974, the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ launched the world's first teletext service
In 1996, an electronic voting system in Brazil was used for the first time
Handmade robots were installed in DRC's capital city Kinshasa to direct traffic
In 1994 Japanese engineer Masahiro Hara designed a square of data, now known as a QR code
In 1946, one of the world’s first electronic computers was unveiled in the USA.
Scientists at Waseda University in Japan built the world's first humanoid robot in 1973
1966 saw the invention of Eliza, which is said to be the first chatbot
The 2009 attempt to give all Indian citizens a unique digital ID
