WORLD'S FIRST PEN DRIVE

Pen Drive or the USB Flash Drive as it is also known as is a data storage device, handy, removable and weigh less. It all started with 8 mb storage when it was officially made public in 1998 by IBM with the intention of replacing the floppy drive in its ThinkPad line of products. The first so-called flash drive was manufactured by M-systems under contract with IBM and was called the disgo.

Ajay V. Bhatt, an Indian-American computer architect developed the USB. The first USB technology began development in 1994, co-invented by Ajay Bhatt of Intel and the USB-IF (USB Implementers Forum, Inc). Compaq, IBM, DEC, Intel, Microsoft, NEC and Nortel joined hands together for the development of USB.  

He was the lead of the team which was formed by these seven companies. The other co-inventor included Sudarshan Bala Cadambi, Shelagh Callahan, Shaun Knoll and Jeff Charles Morriss (all from USA).  One day he was sick of printer plugs as they were not easy to handle and decided to invent something which would be easy to use. Hence he and his team came up with the invention of USB while working at Intel. The first specification for the USB version 1.0 was introduced in 1996

World's First ATM

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A girl puts her computer punch card into the slot of a money machine outside the Westminster Bank in Charring Cross, London, on Jan. 19, 1968

It might just be the best idea to come to a man in the bathtub since Archimedes' time. While taking a soak, inventor John Shepherd-Barron devised what is hailed as the world's first automatic teller machine, although his claim to the title is a matter of dispute. He pitched the device to the British bank Barclays. It accepted immediately, and the first model was built and installed in London in 1967. Though the machine used PIN (personal identification number) codes, a concept Shepherd-Barron also claims to have invented, it was dependent on checks impregnated with the (slightly) radioactive isotope carbon 14 to initiate a withdrawal, as the magnetic coding for ATM cards had not yet been developed. One other difference from its ubiquitous modern counterpart: it didn't charge a fee.

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World's first commercial GSM call

Harri Holkeri

The world's first commercial GSM call was made on July 1, 1991 in Helsinki, Finland over a Nokia-supplied network, by then Prime Minister of Finland Harri Holkeri, using a prototype Nokia GSM phone.

WORLD'S FIRST MOBILE PHONE

It was the size of a dustbin lid and had a range of just half a mile.

The world's first mobile phone could hardly be more different to today's devices, which are small enough to slip inside a pocket and can call almost anywhere in the world.

But its inventor, Nathan Stubblefield, is finally being recognised as the father of mobile phone technology exactly 100 years after he patented his design for a "wireless telephone".

The melon farmer came up with his invention in 1902 after devoting every spare hour and penny he had to establishing a telephone service in his rural home-town of Murray, Kentucky.

He constructed a 120ft mast in his orchard, which transmitted speech from one telephone to another using magnetic fields.

However, the total amount of wire required for the coils in the phones was far longer than what would be required to simply connect them - but the invention allowed mobility.

The self-taught electrician demonstrated his device in the town's public square on New Year's Day in 1902, broadcasting music and speech to five receivers.

And in 1908 he patented a new version designed to communicate with moving vehicles such as stagecoaches and boats.

Unfortunately, his phones were not commercially successful in his lifetime and he died virtually penniless in 1928.

But now a book has credited him with being the father of the modern mobile phone and he is being honoured with his very own page on the Virgin Mobile website to mark the anniversary of his creation.

Virgin's founder Sir Richard Branson said: "Nathan is the father of the mobile phone and I'm thrilled we can celebrate the 100-year anniversary of his invention that in some way went on to change the way the world communicates."

Field test: Receiver in hand, Nathan Stubblefield demonstrates his invention in his orchard (the mast can be seen in the centre of the picture)

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WORLD'S FIRST BANNER AD

When HotWired decided to make money from their website in 1994, they set in motion events that would come back to haunt us all: The creation of banner ads.

AT&T was the first to dish over some money to HotWired to display the beast they created, a 468 x 60 banner that came to life on October 25 1994.

The world's first banner was quite the ugly thing as seen below and clicking it will lead you nowhere, but just in case you really have the urge to click the world's first banner ad we've linked it to a link worthy of your intelligence.

The First Banner Ad

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World's First Photograph (1826)

Known as the Worlds First Photograph but actually this is the earliest surviving photograph, c. 1826. It required an eight-hour exposure, which resulted in sunlight on both sides of the buildings.

It represents the view of the courtyard of Niépces house at Gras, France, taken from the window of his workroom. On the left side of the image is the pigeon-house (an upper loft in the Niépce family house), to the right of it is a pear-tree with a patch of sky showing through an opening in the branches. In the center of the image is the slanting roof of the barn; the long building behind it is the bake house, with chimney. On the right side of the image is another wing of the house.

Info: MHO