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great moments in communication

Created by crichmoney on Feb 4, 2011

Last updated: 02/17/11 at 03:19 PM

• First Browser Program
  Jan 1, 1993

  * Marc Andreeson creates the first browser program, allowing people to navigate the World Wide Web.

• Tim Berners-Lee
  Jan 1, 1990

  Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.

• Cell phones
  Jan 1, 1982

  The first cell phones are available for sale.

• First emoticon
  Jan 1, 1979

  The first emoticon is used in an email message.

• The personal computer
  Jan 1, 1975

  The personal computer, both small and powerful, is invented.

• First email sent
  Jan 1, 1972

  The first email messages are sent.

• Internet Invented
  Jan 1, 1970

  The internet is invented by the U.S. government as a means of military communication.

• First communication satelite is launched
  Jan 1, 1963

  First communications satellite is launched, allowing worldwide live broadcast of the 1964 Olympics.

• First televisions in homes
  Jan 1, 1928

  Very first few homes get television sets to watch broadcast programs.

• Pictures over telephone lines
  Jan 1, 1924

  Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines.

• Radio signals across Atlantic
  Jul 1, 1901

  Gugliermo Marconi sends the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.

• long distance phone calls
  Jul 1, 1884

  First long distance phone calls are made.

• Edison creates the phonograph
  Jul 1, 1877

  Thomas Edison invents the phonograph. a device to record sound on a wax cylinder.

• Telephone invented
  Jul 1, 1876

  Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone, transmitting the sound of voice clearly over electrical wires.

• Transatlantic cable
  Jul 1, 1866

  First successful transmissions over transatlantic cable.

• "Dots" and "Dashes"
  Jul 1, 1837

  Samuel Morse invents a telegraph that can send short and long beeps, called "dots" and "dashes".

• First computer program
  Jul 1, 1830

  Ada Byron, a mathematician, writes the world's first computer program for a computing machine designed by Charles Babbage, but never built.

• Mechanical semaphore
  Jul 1, 1792

  Mechanical semaphore is invented in France.

• Newspapers in Germany
  Jul 1, 1609

  Early newspapers are published in Germany.

• Johann Gutenberg
  Jul 1, 1450

  Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press using movable metal type.

• Flag signals
  Jul 1, 900

  Byzantine ship captains use colored flags to send signals to one another across the water.

• Chinese invent printing
  Jul 1, 450

  Chinese invent printing by inking carved wood blocks.

• Paper from rags
  Jul 1, 105

  Chinese make paper from rags.

• 900BC
  Jul 1, 100

  Chinese develop postal system to deliver written messages.

• 776BC
  Jul 1, 100

  776BC Homing pigeons carry messages about the Olympics for Ancient Greeks.

• 3500BC
  Apr 1, 100

  Sumerians record pictographs representing words on clay tablets.

• cavemen 450,000 BC
  Jan 1, 100

  Neanderthal man carves a picture on a woolly mammoth tooth.