In 1998, Google's founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, celebrated their first major milestone when Andy Bechtolsheim, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, invested $100,000 into their search engine project.After securing the investment, they went to Burger King to celebrate. | History In Pictures

In 1992, Michael Crichton gave a forward-thinking TED talk about the future of technology and "what's going to happen when everyone is really sick of the technology that we're seeing right now." Crichton was always an early advocate of digital technology, incorporating digitization into his 1973 film, 'Westworld.' However, he does highlight that there are always issues with adoption and that some of the multimedia material being created at the time lost sight of the beauty of simplicity. #tedtal