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Hi and welcome to another awesome video by 365 Data Science, where we take interesting

ideas related to data, technology, business, and careers then turn them into unique and

Nowadays, it feels like every week another ground-breaking invention or idea is revealed.

In this video we’re going to look at the evolution of technology from the very beginning.

We’ll go through some of the most influential devices and concepts that have led us to the

Our time travel journey starts pretty much when we did, before selfies, trolling, open-world

gaming, and cheesy infographic videos, way back in 35,000 BC with the first recorded

It all began with a simple tally on a bone – the Lebombo bone.

More conveniently, Papyrus paper was invented in 3,000 BC for recording and the Abacus in

These had evolutions of their own for the next couple of millennia up to around 100

CE where they reached a state of how we know them today.

This was also the time Hindu Arabic numerals were developed, not the first characterised

numbers but ones which allow complex mathematics.

Jumping to the second millennia we have the development of the Torquetum – a complex

analogue computer used to measure astronomical coordinates and is the bases for all modern

The Torquetum was the first device used for the observation of Hayleys Comet.

Equally terrifying and amazing In 1206 came one of the first examples of the concept of

automation with Al-Jazari’s Programmable automata which helped to fuel the ideas of

mechanical humans and artificial intelligence.

Recently, evidence was discovered showing that the first mechanical calculator was conceived

in 1502 by none other than Leonardo da Vinci – who apparently invented everything.

However, nothing came of it and after a few manual calculation systems, the first mechanical

calculator was realised as Pascal’s Calculator in 1642.

But It wasn’t until the 1800s that technology was advanced enough to take advantage of it.

Starting with the Jacquard Loom, which used punch cards to automatically weave designs,

then leading to Babbage’s concept of the difference engine and later the analytical

Unfortunately, these last two projects weren’t actualised due to funding but that didn’t

stop the world’s first computer programmer Ada Lovelace from seeing how they could work

Then we literally captured lightning in a bottle and harnessed electricity, we performed

the census with a tabulating machine for the first time, the triode was invented – essential

for the development of television and radio, we came up with the idea of a thinking machine

– the first ever robot in the sci-fi film “Metropolis”, and the Turing machine was

All this played a huge part in the creation of the first ever electric computer in 1939

Work on the Atanasoff-Berry was discontinued due to World War II, but other computers built

for the war effort, like the colossus and Zuse Z3, were developed.

During the war a model for computational neural networks was created.

After the war had ended we got the ENIAC - the grandfather of digital computing, the UNIVAC

for business and government, the transistor, and the first thinking machines in the SNARC

In fact, this was the first computer that displayed AI capabilities as it learned to

The 50s saw another step forward in machine learning with the Logic Theorist – a program

designed to mimic the grammar skills of a human and dubbed the first AI program.

This decade also sees the integrated circuit which in the 60s was starting to be used in

This gives us the first ever minicomputer – the PDP 1 which, in turn, creates the

need for the mouse and graphical user interface.

We also got Eliza, the first ever Chatbot.

The end of the 60s saw programmable calculators, super computers, operating systems and the

introduction of ARPANET, the internet’s humbler and less complex older sibling, and

The 1970s saw these technologies become commercial and with that came a flood of new developments

– the Honeywell 316, Canon Pocketronic, the first DRAM and microprocessors, the iconic

floppy disk, the first humanoid robot, and the first commercially available microcomputer.

The decade saw plenty of improvements to the technology including Microsoft’s first programming

language, and IBM’s and Apple’s original entries into desktop computing.

The end of the 70’s saw the first automated vehicle – the Stanford cart – and led

us into the 80’s where technology was quickly getting smaller, cheaper, and more powerful.

We also find the development of backpropagation and the CD ROM.

During this time, tech is becoming so compact that the Galvilan SC is marketed as a ‘laptop’

AI is also making leaps and bounds with Cyc, a project aiming to build a knowledge base

of basic concepts, ‘rules of thumb’ and common sense to assist AI applications perform

In the following 5 years we get handheld computers, AI that teaches itself to speak, the first

versions of windows and excel, plenty of supercomputers, laptops, desktops, processors, and in 1989

The web and some big leaps in processing power in the early 90s brought PCs into the realm

This decade introduced us to PC gaming, DVDs, internet browsers.

We got some of the first mobile phone devices from Nokia to fit in our hands and super computers

that are now able to beat human master chess champions with Deep Blue.

And let’s not forget Skynet, I mean Google.

For the next decade we see the development of various computers, hard drives, robots,

In the mid 2000’s we get our first 64-bit processor and dual core CPU, a huge jump in

Speaking of speed, in 2002 we got the first commercial Maglev – short for magnetic levitation

The world is also introduced to YouTube and thus the innate human need for on-demand cat

With the huge growth and commercialisation of technology in the last decade or two, data

That’s why in 2005 the term Big data is coined.

Apple shows its power in the tech field with the release of the MacBook Pro, while the

iPhone brings smartphones to the mainstream.

In the late 2000s IBM shows off its dominance in the realm of the supercomputer by having