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Recent Event Highlights: Invention of Printing, and 26 more...

Created by vegeta8mon on Feb 4, 2011

Last updated: 02/16/11 at 06:24 AM

• 1st Browser Created
  Jun 22, 1993

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

• Invention of the World Wide Web
  Apr 7, 1990

  Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web.

• Cell phones go on sale
  Dec 3, 1982

  The first cell phones are available for sale.

• 1st Emoticon Used
  Jun 17, 1979

  The first emoticon is used in an email message.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emoticon

• 1st Personal Computer
  Sep 4, 1975

  The personal computer, both small and powerful, is invented.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer

• 1st Email
  Mar 4, 1972

  The first email messages are sent.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Email

• Internet is Invented
  Sep 28, 1970

  1970 The internet is invented by the U.S. government as a means of military communication.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet

• 1st Communications Satellite
  Oct 23, 1963

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

• First Homes get TV
  Oct 30, 1928

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

• 1st Picture over lines.
  Nov 28, 1924

  Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines.
  http://www.freepatentsonline.com/5175617.html

• 1st Radio Signal over Atlantic
  Feb 6, 1901

  Gugliermo Marconi sends the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guglielmo_Marconi

• 1st Long Distance Phone Call
  May 17, 1884

  First long distance phone calls are made.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_the_telephone

• Invention of Phonograph
  Aug 4, 1877

  Thomas Edison invents the phonograph. a device to record sound on a wax cylinder.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph

• Invented Telephone
  Jul 17, 1876

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

• 1st Transatlantic Transmission
  Apr 6, 1866

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

• Invention of Telegraph
  Aug 24, 1837

  Samuel Morse invents a telegraph that can send short and long beeps, called "dots" and "dashes".
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telegraph

• 1st Computer Program
  Apr 23, 1830

  Ada Byron, a mathematician, writes the world's first computer program for a computing machine designed by Charles Babbage, but never built.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_program

• 1st Mechanical Semaphore
  Jun 17, 1792

  Mechanical semaphore is invented in France
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_semaphore_signal

• Newspapers printed in Germany
  Feb 19, 1609

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

• 1st Printing Press
  Nov 3, 1449

  Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press using movable metal type.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_Press

• 1st Use of Semaphores
  Sep 5, 900

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

• Invention of Printing
  Jul 26, 450

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

• 1st Paper
  Mar 11, 105

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

• 1st Postal System 900 BC
  Jul 23, 101

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

• 1st Recorded Photograph 3500 BC
  Jun 1, 100

  Sumerians record pictographs representing words on clay tablets.
  http://www.crystalinks.com/sumerwriting.html

• 1st Use of Homing Pigeons 776 BC
  Feb 2, 100

  Homing pigeons carry messages about the Olympics for Ancient Greeks.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homing_pigeon

• 1st Cave Art, 450000 BC
  Jan 1, 100

  Neanderthal man carves a picture on a woolly mammoth tooth.
  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cave_painting