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The tradition of promotional models, officially known as “CES Guides” but commonly referred to as “booth babes” or “trade show hostess” was alive and well at the first CES. They’ve been the subject of controversy and nerd fantasy ever since. It all began back in June 1967 in New York City at the Hilton and Americana hotels.
Since the time of the very first show in 1967 many new electronic products, developments and concepts have debuted at CES. Some of them have come and gone, others have come and stayed – all this happens every year in the one of the most popular tradeshows in the world again and again.
History of CES. The first Consumer Electronic Show kicked off in 1967, with 250 exhibitors and 17,500 attendees in New York City.
1970 – the very first VCR (video cassette recorder) presented to the world.
In 1971 Sony showed their U-Mati VCR that came into consumer marked several months later.
1974 – the premiere of the world’s first Laserdisc player.
In 1975, however, Atari introduced the Pong console, kicking off a home-gaming revolution.
1977 – the very first VHS (Video Home System) VCR – a portable VCR, which become one of the most popular and long living standards of home video players for years to come.
By 1978, the show fell into a regular schedule – In January The Winter CES took place in Las Vegas, Nevada, and in June the Summer CES took place in Chicago.
1978 – early home computers were present in the first show in Las Vegas, which became the only city for CES in January up until now.
That culminated at the end of the decade with Atari's 400 and 800 personal computers (with 4KB and 8KB of RAM, respectively), launched at CES in 1979 for $550 and $1,000, respectively.
1981 – world’s premiere of portable camcorder and the very first CD (Compact Disc) and CD Player.
"Impervious to dust, dirt and wear, the Compact Disc contains up to one hour of music on one side of the 4.7 inch diameter disc," Sony bragged in its 1981 press release.
It launched the first-ever CD player, the CDP-101, in Japan in 1982, and it arrived in the US the next year.
1984 – number of attendees hit the record – almost 100000 people have visited each summer and winter shows.
With that as the morbid background, Nintendo launched the Nintendo Entertainment System (NES), known in Japan as the Famicom, at CES 1985.
There was probably a lot of cool stuff at CES 1991, but it'll forever be remembered for the public implosion of Sony and Nintendo's fledgling partnership.
1992 – Apple attended to show for the first time and John Sculley officially presented a pocket computer – Newton.
As it happened, John Sculley (barely) showed an alpha Newton device during his CES 1993 keynote, and that year marked its last official showing at CES. The handwriting recognition was pretty terrible, and low sales ended Sculley's career at Apple.
The year 1993 also marked a turning point for CES. For the first time, much of the show revolved around PCs, games and information tech rather than just TVs and stereos.
1994 – the very first Digital Satellite System is shown.
Some say this was because the video game industry was snubbed by the CES organizers who game them terrible booth locations, until the video game industry created their own summer event, the Electronic Entertainment Expo, which had its first event in the summer of 1995 in Los Angeles.
1996 – the very first DVD (Digital Versatile Disc) is present.
2001 – the original Microsoft Xbox game console firstly introduced. It was the first video game console manufactured by an American company after the Atari Jaguar stopped sales in 1996 and Microsoft’s first endeavor to enter into the gaming console market.
The device itself was killed by Steve Jobs in 1997.
1998 – HDTV (High Definition Television) introduced for the first time.
In 1999, participants were gaga over a TV show recording format called ReplayTV, and CES awarded it Best of Show honors.
2001 – the original Microsoft Xbox game console firstly introduced.
2001 – PDP (Plasma Display Panel) aka Plasma TV firstly shown.
2003 – a year which was remarkable by series of shows presented by Microsoft with constant narrator – Bill Gates as head of the corporation.
2006 – Variety of new digital content services is presented
CD sales hit 200 billion units in 2007 but have declined ever since, thanks to digital streaming and downloads.
They needn't have worried, because Blu-ray definitively killed its HD DVD rival at CES 2008, when Warner Bros. announced that it would produce disks only for Sony's format.
2011 – lots of new tablets from different manufactures were introduced, such as Motorola Xoom.
2014 – The very first Li-Fi smartphone debuted.
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