DVD lineage - Even before there was a VCR in every home, new home entertainment mediums were being created. Here, Ken Ingram, senior vice president of marketing and sales for Magnavox, demonstrates a video disc player in September 1979.

Earl Dell Jr., 4, was excited about the experience of using one of the very first picture phones in December 1972. The phone was on display at the Museum of Science and Industry, touted as phone of the future.

The online poker industry may owe some props to Atari, which was one of the pioneers of video gaming, especially with games like black jack. Here, Dave Gardner, 14, demonstrates Atari black jack in June 1980, at a gaming convention in Chicago.

n just four short years, the cell phone went from fitting into a brief case to fitting into a chassis the size of a brick. Here, Chicago businessman Ed Lang conducts business out and about in August 1989.

The cost of setting up a home computer in 1983 was, from left: printer $499, cassette recorder $59, central processing unit $1,000, modem $149 and graphics printer $995.