100 years of life

Can you imagine what one would have seen in 100 years of life?  

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My bestest girlfriend Emily (we've been friends since Kindergarten) has a grandma turning 100 in April, 2013.  She would like to be able to give her grandma 100 birthday cards for her birthday.  Would you be willing to send her a card?  If you would please leave a comment with a way I can contact you with a mailing address. Personally I think it would be neat to have a couple of cards from outside the United States.  (On a side note: My husband's grandma is turning 100 in August 2013!  His other grandma is 97'ish).

There have been 17 different US Presidents in the last 100 years.

I found a list of highlights of the past 100 years here. I have listed a few that I found most interesting. This list went only through 2000.  What have you found most interesting in the last 13 years?  I have added a few others to the initial list I felt worth mentioning.

1913: the modern brassiere and crossword puzzle are invented (I wonder if the bras were

         padded in 1913 like you can find in so many stores today? LOL)

1914: gas mask invented in time for WWI

1915: Pyrex invented (AMAZING!!  And we're still using today!)

1916: Model T Ford prices fall to $360 -- half the 1911 price

1917: modern zipper invented

1920: Band-Aid invented

1922: insulin invented

1923: Clarence Birdseye introduces frozen food

1924: spiral-bound notebooks first appear

1928: Fleming discovers penicillin; Schick patents the electric shaver

1929: Zenith Radio starts year as lowest priced stock on NYSE -- ends year as highest priced

         stock due to demand for its radios; Paul Galvin (later president of Motorola) invents

         the car radio

1930: Scotch tape invented at 3M; first jet engine designs

1933: stereo records developed

1935: Dupont invents nylon; radar first developed; and beer is canned for the first time

1936: Colt's revolver patented

1937: photocopier invented

1938: ballpoint pen and Teflon invented

1940: Jeep designed; US Census counted 132.2 million people (here)

1941: aerosol spray cans developed

1943: synthetic rubber invented, along with the Slinky and Silly Putty; Cousteau co-

         develops the aqualung

1944: synthetic cortisone developed

1945: atomic bomb developed and used

1946: microwave oven invented by Percy Spencer after he melts chocolate bar in his pocket

1948: Velcro and the jukebox invented (Interesting how we're still using Velcro, 

         but the jukebox is totally outdated!)

1949: prepared cake mixes introduced

1950: Diner's Club introduces first credit card (How many different cards are in your pocket

         or purse now?)

1951: Super Glue invented; so is first video tape recorder

1952: first bar code patent issued; first diet soft drink developed

1953: transistor radio invented at Texas Instruments (TI); radial tire developed

         (I used to have a transistor radio!)

1954: oral contraceptives invented; Ray Kroc starts franchising McDonald's

1956: first use of computer hard disk

1958: first legal interracial marriage (found here) and (here)

1959: important to generations of girls -- the Barbie Doll is introduced

1962: audio cassettes developed

1963: pop-top cans

1964: BASIC computer language; permanent-press materials

1968: Douglas Englebert invents the computer mouse

1969: ATM machine invented; Arpanet also appears and bar code scanners developed

1970: Alan Shugart (chairman of hard drive supplier Seagate) invents the floppy disk

1971: Intel's 4004 is first microprocessor design; dot-matrix printer, VCR and LCD displays

         also invented

1972: first video game -- Pong -- invented

         (I remember playing Pong!! My oldest brother brought it home from college for us.)

1973: gene splicing invented; Ethernet networking invented at Xerox; BIC develops

         disposable lighter; 

1974: Post-it Notes and liposuction invented

1975: laser printer developed

1976: ink jet printing invented

1977: magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) invented

1981: IBM introduces the PC and MS-DOS appears for the first time

1983: soft bifocal contact lenses introduced

1984: Apple Macintosh popularizes the graphical interface; CD-ROMs invented

1985: Microsoft brings out Windows 1.0

         First solar car invented (here) (You would think they would be more developed in the

         last 28 years!)

1986: Microsoft's initial public offering (IPO); first disposable camera introduced

1987: disposable contact lenses invented

1988: Doppler radar invented; first patent issued for genetically-engineered animal issued

1991: first digital answering machine

1995: DVD invented; Java language launched by Sun Microsystems;

1996: WebTV introduced (That didn't last long!!)

1999: Google.com is formed and the search engine goes into beta test publicly

2000: mapping of human DNA completed

         Worldwide 361 million Internet users (here)

2001: 9/11 (here) (How many remember "9/11" but have a hard time remembering the

         year?)

2010: US Census counted 308.7 million people (here)  

         Worldwide almost 10 billion Internet users (here)

Again; if you'd be interested in mailing a birthday card to my friends grandma to wish her a happy 100th birthday, leave me a comment and I will email you an address to mail it to.

THANK YOU!


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