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Created by froman35atm on Feb 10, 2011

Last updated: 03/07/11 at 08:16 AM

• Dipity Timeline Created
  Feb 10, 2011 6:17 AM

• Marc Andreeson creates the first browser program
  1993

  Marc Andreeson creates the first browser program, allowing people to navigate the World Wide Web.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen

• Tim Berners
  1990

  Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tim_Berners-Lee

• cell phones are available for sale
  1982

  The first cell phones are available for sale.
  http://www.retrobrick.com/moto8000.html

• first emoticon is used in an email message
  1979

  The first emoticon is used in an email message.
  http://www.muller-godschalk.com/history.html

• The personal computer is invented
  1975

  1975 The personal computer, both small and powerful, is invented.
  http://lowendmac.com/lowendpc/history/index.shtml

• The first email messages are sent
  1972

  The first email messages are sent.
  http://openmap.bbn.com/~tomlinso/ray/firstemailframe.html

• The internet is invented by the U.S. government
  1970

  The internet is invented by the U.S. government as a means of military communication.
  http://www.lincoln.edu/math/rmyrick/ComputerNetworks/InetReference/57.htm

• First communications satellite
  1963

  1963 First communications satellite is launched, allowing worldwide live broadcast of the 1964 Olympics.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_satellite

• homes get television sets to watch broadcast programs
  1928

  Very first few homes get television sets to watch broadcast programs.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_television

• Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines
  1924

  Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines.
  http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/05/050517063432.htm

• Gugliermo Marconi sends the first radio signal
  1901

  Gugliermo Marconi sends the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.
  http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/aso/databank/entries/dt01ma.html

• long distance phone calls are made
  1884

  First long distance phone calls are made.
  http://www.canadacool.com/COOLFACTS/ONTARIO/BrantfordBell.html

• Thomas Edison invents the phonograph
  1877

  Thomas Edison invents the phonograph. a device to record sound on a wax cylinder.
  http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bledison.htm

• Alexander Graham bell invents the telephone
  1876

  Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone, transmitting the sound of voice clearly over electrical wires.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Graham_Bell

• successful transmissions over transatlantic cable
  1866

  First successful transmissions over transatlantic cable.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transatlantic_telegraph_cable

• Samuel Morse telegraph
  1837

  Samuel Morse invents a telegraph that can send short and long beeps, called "dots" and "dashes".
  http://inventors.about.com/od/tstartinventions/a/telegraph.htm

• Ada Byron
  1830

  Ada Byron, a mathematician, writes the world's first computer program for a computing machine designed by Charles Babbage, but never built.
  http://www.agnesscott.edu/lriddle/women/love.htm

• Mechanical semaphore
  1792

  Mechanical semaphore is invented in France.
  http://www.wordiq.com/definition/Semaphore_(communication)

• newspapers are published in Germany
  1609

  Early newspapers are published in Germany.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_newspapers_and_magazines

• Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press
  1450

  Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press using movable metal type.
  http://inventors.about.com/od/gstartinventors/a/Gutenberg.htm

• Byzantine ship captains use colored flags
  900

  Byzantine ship captains use colored flags to send signals to one another across the water.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantine_navy

• Chinese invent printing
  450

  Chinese invent printing by inking carved wood blocks.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodblock_printing

• Sumerians record pictographs
  Jul 1, 200

  Sumerians record pictographs representing words on clay tablets.

• Chinese develop postal system
  Jul 1, 200

  900BC Chinese develop postal system to deliver written messages.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mail

• Homing pigeons carry messages
  Jul 1, 200

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

• Neanderthal man
  Jul 1, 200

  Neanderthal man carves a picture on a woolly mammoth tooth.

• Chinese make paper from rags
  105

  Chinese make paper from rags.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papermaking