Short answers, pulled from the story.
Douglas T. Ross performed the first real-time computer graphics experiment in 1959. He wrote a program that captured the movement of his finger and displayed his traced name as a vector on a display scope using a light pen with a photoelectric cell.
Ivan Sutherland unveiled the first computer-controlled head-mounted display in 1963. The device was named the Sword of Damocles and was suspended from the ceiling by a massive metal arm to display stereoscopic 3D wireframe images.
Martin Newell created the Utah teapot in 1975 as a 3D model to test rendering algorithms and hidden surface determination. It became the most famous object in computer graphics history and appeared in the 1976 feature film Futureworld.
The year 1985 marked the commercialization of computer graphics with the first fully CGI character appearing in a music video. The Dire Straits song Money for Nothing featured a man with a guitar, and the film Young Sherlock Holmes featured the first fully CGI character in a feature movie.
Pixar released the first fully computer-animated feature film Toy Story in 1995. The film was a critical and commercial success of nine-figure magnitude and proved that computer graphics could tell compelling stories.
Nvidia released the first home video card billed as a graphics processing unit in 1999. The GeForce 256 contained integrated transform, lighting, triangle setup/clipping, and rendering engines to allow for real-time rendering of complex 3D graphics.