Do you ever think about how different our lives would be if technology was never invented? At age 31, Bill Gates became the youngest billionaire ever at the time, having a networth of $12.9 billion. The 1970’s was a very popular time for new upcomings and new technologies. Bill Gates starting Microsoft, the beginning of VCR’s, Tom Persky inventing the floppy disk, and the pocket calculator was just the beginning of the new technologies to come. Technology in the 1970’s was just the beginning to the uproar of many new exciting experiments and new technologies to come. The impact of the technologies in this time affected the time period, the world, and even the life of people today.
The impact of all these technologies in the 1970’s was tremendous. Before the invention of the pocket calculator, people either needed access to an …show more content…
“The VCR, though, refused to die quickly. As of 2005, some 94.5 million Americans still owned VHS-format VCRs.” (“VHS Comes to America”). Even though some newer technologies and advancements came after the VHS tape, it was still very popular and still widely used across the United States. Many newer versions of the VHS tape and the VCR have came along, but people still to this day on several VHS tapes and may even still own a VCR. A quote from (“Think the Floppy Disk is Dead?”) states, “The floppy disk might seem like something better left in the 1990’s, instead it’s a product that’s alive and well in the 21st century.” The invention of the floppy disk led to a very popular item, still used today, that was made to store data. After the success of the floppy disk, Tom Persky’s operation expanded into a company that would copy data onto the disks and would sell them. Even though items such as flash drives and CD’s came along, some business places still preferred to use the floppy disk. The impact of these inventions on the world would even happen to impact the lives of people
The impact of all these technologies in the 1970’s was tremendous. Before the invention of the pocket calculator, people either needed access to an …show more content…
“The VCR, though, refused to die quickly. As of 2005, some 94.5 million Americans still owned VHS-format VCRs.” (“VHS Comes to America”). Even though some newer technologies and advancements came after the VHS tape, it was still very popular and still widely used across the United States. Many newer versions of the VHS tape and the VCR have came along, but people still to this day on several VHS tapes and may even still own a VCR. A quote from (“Think the Floppy Disk is Dead?”) states, “The floppy disk might seem like something better left in the 1990’s, instead it’s a product that’s alive and well in the 21st century.” The invention of the floppy disk led to a very popular item, still used today, that was made to store data. After the success of the floppy disk, Tom Persky’s operation expanded into a company that would copy data onto the disks and would sell them. Even though items such as flash drives and CD’s came along, some business places still preferred to use the floppy disk. The impact of these inventions on the world would even happen to impact the lives of people