Blog Post #7 Presentations

 Blog Post #7 In-Class Presentations:

In class this week we all gave presentations on different inventions in the history of technology as well as their history and their impact. Throughout the presentations there was a variety of topics such as streaming services, computers, cameras, and the printing press which were focused on and I learned something from every presentation about the website, app, device, or invention that was talked about because everyone talked about the entire history and creation of their technology and there was a lot of new information and people that I had never heard of that was very interesting to learn about for the first time. I think that some of the presentations focused on the older technologies were the most interesting to me because I did not know most of the information that they talked about so I learned a lot from them. Some of these were the printing press, vinyl records, and the telegraph. Some specific information that I learned in the presentation was that the first full in color film was released in 1908, and that the firs fully animated film was released in 1995 which was Toy Story from Pixar. Something else I learned was that TV's became a household thing which a lot of people started to frequently use after WWII and were appearing in most people's houses starting in the 1950's. I also learned that DVD's were first invented in 1997. The first smartphone was invented in 2007 with the first version of the iPhone from Apple. This surprised me to learn about because I always think about the iPhone as something that was created before I was born but it was actually a few years after I was born. The original iPhone also introduced the touchscreens which was a big deal that changed modern technology to this day. The personal computers were probably the biggest piece of technology which was focused on in these presentations because of the amount of uses and people that use it every day in recent years. The invention of the personal computer is pretty recent and the amount of impact that this device has had since its creation is huge. The invention that I personally focused on was the app/website Youtube which is a video sharing platform which is used by millions today and has only continued to grow since its release in 2005. Overall, these presentations helped me learn a lot about a variety of major technology devices and inventions which I had not known before and also helped me learn about where the devices I use daily come from and how they were made.