By Reece Hartge

 In the early 1970’s all we relied on was typewriters. If we need to copy a document, we likely a mimeograph or carbon paper.  In 1975 Bill Gates and Paul Allen form a partnership called Microsoft.  Like most start-ups, Microsoft begins small, but has a huge vision, a computer on every desktop and in every home.  During the next years, Microsoft begins to change the ways we work.

 Apple Computer, Inc., is a multinational corporation that creates consumer electronics, personal computers, computer software, and commercial servers, and is a digital distributor of media content.  Founders Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak effectively created Apple Computer on April , with the release of the Apple and incorporated the company on January in Cupertino, California.

 The history of video games goes as far back as the 1940s, when in 1947 Thomas T. Goldsmith, Jr. and Este Ray Mann filed a United States patent request for an invention they described as a "cathode ray tube amusement device."  Video gaming would not reach mainstream popularity until the 1970s and 1980s, when arcade video games, gaming consoles and home computer games were introduced to the general public.

 Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California.  Intel is the world's largest and highest valued semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue.  It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most personal computers. Intel Corporation, founded on July 18, 1968, is a portmanteau of Integrated Electronics

 International Business Machines Corporation (NYSE: IBM), or IBM, is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation, with headquarters in Armonk, New York, United States.  IBM manufactures and markets computer hardware and software, and offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology.  The company was founded in 1911 as the Computing Tabulating Recording Company (CTR) through a merger of three companies: the Tabulating Machine Company, the International Time Recording Company, and the Computing Scale Company.

 The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite (TCP/IP) to serve billions of users worldwide.  It is a network of networks that consists of millions of private, public, academic, business, and government networks, of local to global scope, that are linked by a broad array of electronic, wireless and optical networking technologies.  The Internet carries an extensive range of information resources and services, such as the inter-linked hypertext documents of the World Wide Web (WWW) and the infrastructure to support .

 A mobile phone (also known as a cellular phone, cell phone and a hand phone) is a device that can make and receive telephone calls over a radio link while moving around a wide geographic area.  It does so by connecting to a cellular network provided by a mobile phone operator, allowing access to the public telephone network.  By contrast, a cordless telephone is used only within the short range of a single, private base station.