{"id":7857,"date":"2014-08-19T09:39:00","date_gmt":"2014-08-19T09:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/?p=7857"},"modified":"2014-08-19T09:39:00","modified_gmt":"2014-08-19T09:39:00","slug":"uk-pioneers-of-technology-infographic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/uk-pioneers-of-technology-infographic\/","title":{"rendered":"UK Pioneers of Technology infographic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/proud-to-be-uk-the-uk-domain-family-in-numbers-infographic\/\" target=\"_blank\">Proud to be .uk infographic<\/a>, we&rsquo;ve turned our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/the-uks-biggest-online-achievements\/\" target=\"_blank\">post covering the UK&rsquo;s biggest digital achievements<\/a> into an infographic to highlight some of the most significant technological contributions to date.<\/p>\n<p>From programming to portable hardware to 3D graphics, it&rsquo;s surprising how far-reaching the UK&rsquo;s impact has been over the years. Many of the technological advances we see as standard today were created by or are underpinned by knowledge, skill and imagination straight from our small islands. But it&rsquo;s not just an historical legacy; with companies like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nominet.org.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nominet<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Raspberry Pi<\/a> foundation continuing to raise the bar, we&rsquo;re excited to see what happens next.<\/p>\n<p>There were so many UK achievements that we couldn&rsquo;t include them all, but here are some of our favourites summed up in a timeline-style celebratory infographic:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"UK Pioneers of Technology\" border=\"0\" height=\"7292\" src=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/uk-pioneers-of-technology.jpg\" title=\" UK Pioneers of Technology \" width=\"950\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following on from our Proud to be .uk infographic, we&rsquo;ve turned our post covering the UK&rsquo;s biggest digital achievements into an infographic to highlight some of the most significant technological contributions to date. From programming to portable hardware to 3D graphics, it&rsquo;s surprising how far-reaching the UK&rsquo;s impact has been over the years. Check out our infographic and share or add to your own website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8181,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-7857","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-misc"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v26.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>UK Pioneers of Technology infographic - Heart Internet<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"UK Pioneers of Technology infographic - Written by the team at Heart Internet.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.heartinternet.uk\/blog\/uk-pioneers-of-technology-infographic\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"UK Pioneers of Technology infographic - 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