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After sharing my 200 Years of Technology Milestones earlier this month, Michal Smolka and Yurii Arnautov kindly pointed out that I had missed a few obvious milestones. Today, I have corrected those omissions and added even more milestones. While all materials have been updated, below is a summary of each milestone added

Car phone: think about the concept of a "mobile phone". We can trace its origins back to the first true car telephone developed by Bell System in 1946. This was an 36KG (80 pound) piece of equipment that required a transmitter and a handset to work. Not exactly like the sleek smartphones of today, but it laid the groundwork for mobile communication.

The foundation for all modern wireless communication was established with ALOHAnet. Developed at the University of Hawaii in 1971, this was the first system to prove that a shared communication channel could be used by multiple computers. This "random access protocol" is a foundational concept that later influenced everything from Ethernet to cellular and Wi-Fi networks.

Building on this, the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) launched the Packet Radio Network (PRNET) project in 1973. This research aimed to create a mobile ad-hoc data network and successfully linked with ARPANET, one of the first examples of "internetworking". In the 1977 tests, PRNET's node was in a nondescript silver van.

In 1980, physicist Paul Benioff published the first-ever description of a quantum computer Peter Shor's algorithm in 1994 showed how a quantum computer could factor large numbers exponentially faster than classical computers highlighting the threat to modern public-key cryptography. In 1998, the first quantum computer was demonstrated.

In 1991, Sony released the first rechargeable lithium-ion battery, which was a true game-changer. It enabled the creation of smaller, lighter, and more powerful portable devices, paving the way for the wireless and electric vehicle revolutions. The battery was based on designs by Akira Yoshino, John B. Goodenough, and M. Stanley Whittingham, who were jointly awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. At the age of 97, Goodenough became the oldest person ever to receive a Nobel Prize.

Invented in 1994 by Masahiro Hara at Denso Wave, the QR code was originally a solution for the auto manufacturing industry. Traditional barcodes could only store about 20 characters but the QR code could hold up to 4,000 thereby vastly streamlining the movement of parts. The inspiration for the QR code's pattern came from the ancient Japanese board game Go. Denso Wave's decision to make the patent rights open and free is a huge reason for its global ubiquity today.

Google Earth launched in 2005. The concept of zooming from a cosmic view down to a specific location was inspired by the 1977 film Powers of Ten. The technology was originally called EarthViewer, created by a company called Keyhole, and was used by the U.S. military and news organizations during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In a somewhat scary milestone, bot traffic surpassed human traffic on the internet for the first time in 2024. Perhaps even scarier is that 37% of that traffic came from "bad" bots.

If you see any major milestones missing, please do let me know. It is a great excuse for me to do some more research and keep learning.

London from Above: A Breathtaking 3D Flight in Google Earth 🌍