文本信息处理（Text String Processing）
Telegraph 1844
Transcontental Telegraph 1861
Typewriter 1885 Linotype Typesetter 1888 Teletype 1920
Telex 1948
Electric Typewriter 1952
Computer Line Printer 1965
Electronic Type Setter
Selectric Typewriter 1967
Daisy Wheel Printer 1972
Dot Matrix Printer 1978
Laser Printer 1984
InkJet Printer 1984
PostScript Page Layout Language 1985

图像处理（Image Processing）
Photography 1840
Mathew Brady Photos of Civil War 1861-1865
Facsimile Image Transmission 1871
Electromechanical Image Transmission (Nipkov Disk) 1895
All Electronic Image Transmission 1928
Modern Black & White Television (RCA) 1936
Consumer Color Photographic Film (Kodak) 1936
Color Television Transmission (RCA) 1953
Patent granted for See, Hear, Smell Helmet 1957
Tape Recording of Television Signal (Ampex) 1958
Color Ink Jet Printer 1986 Thermal Transfer Color Printer 1987

声音处理（Sound Processing）
Mechanical Phonograph (Edison) 1870
Telephone (Bell) 1876
Transcontental Phone Service 1914
Commercial AM Radio Broadcast 1915
Commercial FM Broadcast 1928
Stereo FM Broadcast 1949
LP Record 33-1/3 rpm 1952
Home Tape Recorder 1956
Compact Disk (digital recording) 1982
Macintosh II with Digital Sound 1989
Sound Blaster Digital Sound for PC 1989

计算与控制（Computation and Control）
Governor for Steam Engine 1790
Jacquard Loom 1802
Hollerith Punched Cards 1890
COLLSUS Code Breaking Computer
EINIAC Electronic Computer 1945
General Useage of IBM Commercial Systems 1955
Altair Computer/Microsoft Founded 1975
Apple I Computer 1976
IBM Personal Computer 1981
Apple Macintosh 1984
IBM PC AT 286 Computer 1985
Intel 386 Based Systems 1988
Intel 486 Based Systems 1992
Mosaic Web Brouser
Apple Power PC 1993
Intel Pentium Systems 1994
Netscape Web Brouser