The Supercar Registry - You Can't Make This Stuff Up!

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1963 - It's thanks to Douglas Engelbart from the Stanford Research Center in the United States that we now have this indispensable device. Did you know that the very first mouse was made of wood?

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Stephanie Kwolek, a scientist at DuPont, created this bulletproof material in 1965 with liquid-crystal polymers. Today, Kevlar is used in all sorts of applications.

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What luck! If you were born in 1966, you share your birth year with this game-day snacking staple. Doritos have been popular from the start. Nevertheless, Frito-Lay completely redesigned them in 1994 for the astronomical cost of US$50 million.

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10-18-2021 09:49 AM

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In this photo, you can see the very first automated teller machine installed by Barclays, a London bank, on June 27, 1967.

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10-18-2021 09:51 AM

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They were big, heavy, and expensive, but we can't live without them today. Motorola employee Martin Cooper had the honour of making the first call on April 3, 1973. Whom did he call? The Bell Labs headquarters in New Jersey.

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The first word processor wasn't WordPerfect or WordStar, but rather Electric Pencil. After it entered the market in December 1976, its ease of use made it quite popular.

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10-18-2021 09:54 AM

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In 1981, the newly coined “Internet,” once used only by the American Army, became available to a wider network of scientific and academic communities and as they say, the rest is history.

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10-18-2021 09:55 AM

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No fewer than 10 official versions have followed the release of the first Windows operating system in 1985. It marked the moment when many users moved away from the keyboard and embraced the mouse, finding the interface more user-friendly. We've come a long way from MS-DOS.

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10-18-2021 09:57 AM

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1992 - The first text message, “Merry Christmas,” was sent by a former developer at Sema Group Telecoms, Neil Papworth, to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis. At the time, phones did not have keypads, so the message was sent from a PC.

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10-18-2021 09:59 AM

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It's no mistake. Netflix really did first appear in 1997, when you still had to connect to the web through a telephone line. Customers ordered DVDs from Netflix that were then delivered by mail. Today, the cinema giant produces content, earns billions of dollars, and has transformed the cinematographic and television industries. Netflix has also gifted us with binge-watching and sleepless nights!

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