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The virtual reality consumers We’re all living in the information age. From healthcare to education, technology has no sign of slowing down
2016 headset, Oculus Rift, becomes available to TERI holds ICDL on ‘Smart Future’ Present Day transformed our lives, and the digital revolution shows
2005 YouTube launches with a video of the site’s co-founder at the zoo: a clip that has garnered almost 40 million views
2004 Facebook is born, and a new age of social media begins TERI holds ICDL on ‘Knowledge Creation, Preservation, Access, and Management’ 2011 Bitcoin becomes the first widely accepted fully digital currency 2012 Google begins testing driverless cars
Skype launches world via video
2003 instantly connecting people around the
2010 Apple’s launch of the iPad propels tablet computers into the mainstream TERI holds ICDL on ‘Shaping the Information Paradigm’
Launch of first modern
1997 social media site – Six Degrees 2000 introduced to the UK, providing much faster internet access 2009 Commercial introduction of 3D
Smartphone is 2007 The iPhone is launched and smartphones usage
1994 released, supporting calls, email and fax Broadband is printers
Tim Berners Lee Wide Web whilst working at CERN
1994 invents the World explodes
A fully digital camera
1988 is released, oering storage for up to 10 A Brief History of the
32 photos Digital Revolution
2016 headset, Oculus Rift, becomes available to TERI holds ICDL on ‘Smart Future’ Present Day transformed our lives, and the digital revolution shows
2005 YouTube launches with a video of the site’s co-founder at the zoo: a clip that has garnered almost 40 million views
2004 Facebook is born, and a new age of social media begins TERI holds ICDL on ‘Knowledge Creation, Preservation, Access, and Management’ 2011 Bitcoin becomes the first widely accepted fully digital currency 2012 Google begins testing driverless cars
Skype launches world via video
2003 instantly connecting people around the
2010 Apple’s launch of the iPad propels tablet computers into the mainstream TERI holds ICDL on ‘Shaping the Information Paradigm’
Launch of first modern
1997 social media site – Six Degrees 2000 introduced to the UK, providing much faster internet access 2009 Commercial introduction of 3D
Smartphone is 2007 The iPhone is launched and smartphones usage
1994 released, supporting calls, email and fax Broadband is printers
Tim Berners Lee Wide Web whilst working at CERN
1994 invents the World explodes
A fully digital camera
1988 is released, oering storage for up to 10 A Brief History of the
32 photos Digital Revolution
