App Icons
80's Technology
Inventors in Technology
100

You're on your cellphone's home screen. There is a green app with a white phone on it. You open this app to ____ someone.

Call

100

Sony's portable cassette player.

"Must have gadget of the decade."

Sony Walkman

100

invented the electric lightbulb

Thomas Edison 

200

This app's icon is a blue square with a white "f." On this app, you can post a "status" and talk to friends through "messenger."

Facebook

200

After the cassette, this was a new way to listen to music, play games, watch movies, etc.

Buy it at the store in a case with an album cover 

CD

200

invented the lightning conductor and bifocal lenses

Benjamin Franklin 

300

This app has had an increase in usage due to COVID-19. It is used to video chat with friends.

Zoom

300

This invention became the world's most popular operating system on a computer.

Today, it competes with Apple's software.

Microsoft Windows

300

aviation pioneers

invented aircraft control systems

Wright Brothers

400

You open an app on an iPhone that is a green square with a white message bubble. How are you going to send your message? 

Phone call, email, text message, etc.

Text 

400

You put DVDs into a ___. 


__ vs Betamax debate 


Part of home cinema set ups

VHS



400

invented the telephone

his mother was Deaf

Alexander Graham Bell

500

The app's icon is a blue square with a white bird. A feature of this app is "retweet." This app is popular with millennials.

Twitter

500

Nintendo's original handheld gaming device.

Gameboy

500

Italian philosopher

invented the scientific method

"father of modern physics"

large discoveries with telescope

Galileo Galilei

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