25 years of technology evolution and change

25 YEARS 25 YEARS EST. 1988 OF TECHNOLOGY EVOLUTION AND CHANGE This year is a special year for Insight as we celebrate our 25th Anniversary. Happy Birthday to us. During this time we have seen a lot of changes within the tech industry from the creation of the internet to the launch of the iPod and the current tablet boom. Take a look at the timeline below to see how much has really changed. 1988: Insight is founded by the Crown Brothers in Tempe Arizona Insight. 1989: On 1st August Microsoft releases a suite of desktop applications called 0ffice. This first version contains The Microsoft Olice Word, Excel and PowerPoint 1990: Development of the World Wide Web begins. Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues at CERN create HyperText Transfer Protocol (HTTP), standardising communication between servers and clients 1990: Cisco goes public on February 16, 1990, listed as "CSCO" on the NASDAQ 1990: Photoshop 1.0 is released on February 19th exclusively for Macintosh 1993: Intel release the first Pentium Processor intel inside 1995: Microsoft Memet Explorer containing over 3 million transistors releases Internet Explorer as a part of an add-on package for Windows 95 named Plus! 1995: Digital Versatile Discst or DVDS are invented by Philips, Sony, Toshiba & Panasonic DIO DVD 1995: Microsoft combine formerly separate MS-DOS and Windows products to create Windows 95 1995: Jeff Bezos 1998: Larry Page and Sergey Brin create Google Inc setting up a workspace in Susan Wojcicki's garage launches online bookstore, Amazon.com Google 1999: Shawn Fanning, John Fanning and Sean Parker launch peer-to-peer file sharing service, Napster 2001: Apple release their first line of portable media players named the iPod 2004: Mark Zuckerberg launches TheFacebook a social network for 2006: Jack Dorsey, Evan Williams, Biz Stone and Noah Glass launch Twitter, a facebook Harvard students micro blogging and social networking service twitter 2007: Apple release the first generation iPhone named the iPhone 2G 2008: The first Android powered phone, the T-Mobile G1 goes on sale 2008: Bill Gates retires from day to day operations at Microsoft to focus on philanthropy and the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation 2010: Amid much speculation Apple release their first line of tablet PCs named the iPad 2011: Apple founder and visionary Steve Jobs sadly dies after a long battle with Pancreatic cancer 2012: Microsoft releases the Surface Tablet, the first initiative to integrate its Windows OS with its own hardware 2012: EE launch the first 4th generation (4G) mobile services in the UK 2013: IPV6 launches to handle the ever increasing number of new devices connecting to the Internet Insight UK.INSIGHT.COM