3500 BC Alphabet Phoenicians Cuneiform writing - pictographs of Sumerians to 2900 BC accounts written on clay tablets
1800 BC Smoke Signals Chinese Soldiers
26 to 37 Heliographs - first recorded use of mirrors Roman Emperor to send messages Tiberius 1793 First long-distance semaphore (visual or Claude Chappe optical) telegraph line. 1829 Braille lettering is used to communicate to Luis Braille the blind. Typewriter W.A. Burt 1831 First electric telegraph Joseph Henry 1835 Morse code Samuel Morse 1843 First long distance electric telegraph line Samuel Morse
Patent of the first fax machine Alexander Bain
1876 Thomas Edison patents the mimeograph - Thomas Edison
an office copying machine. Patent of the electric telephone Alexander Graham Bell Mr. Watsoncome here, I want to see NA you. Were the first words spoken on a successful telephone call by Alexander Graham Bell. 1892 First upright desk top telephone called Alexander Graham "desk stand" or "candlestick" telephone Bell 1933 FM radio was patented. Edwin H. Armstrong. 1934 First tape recorder for broadcasting - first Joseph Begun magnetic recording. 1939 Two-way radio communication developed Alfred J. Gross for military use. 1951 Computers Charles Babbage 1958 Photocopier or Xerox machine Chester Carlson 1962 Cassette tape which allowed people to Phillips Company listen to music or a book using a more small compact cartridge. 1965 The PDP-8 is first minicomputer success. DEC FORTRAN, user-friendly computer language, is created. 1966 Telecopier - the first successful fax Xerox machine. 1969 ARPANET - the first Internet started DARPA 1971 The microprocessor invented - considered a computer on a chip. 1972 Development of Infostrada, a national Andrew Targowski computer network in Poland 1973 First official cell phone. The 2 pound Martin Cooper brick was called Motorola Dyna-tac. Its dimensions measured 9 x 5 x 1.75 inches. Ethernet, a local area network, is David Boggs developed at Xerox PARC. 1976 Apple I home computer invented. Apple 1980 Sony Walkman invented. Nobutoshi Kihara
1982 First laptop computer introduced. Alan Kay
1984 Apple Macintosh released. Apple 1985 First version of Windows Microsoft
1991 World Wide Web begins. Tim Berners-Lee
2001 MySpace is launched. Tom Anderson 2003 Facebook is launched. Mark Zuckerberg 2005 YouTube, the video sharing site, is Steve Chen launched. 2006 Twitter, micro blogging Jack Dorsey June 29, 2007 First iPhone is released. Apple 2008 Apple launches its iPAD. Apple
2010 In conjunction with the iPhone 4, Apple
FaceTime is launched as an iPhone constituent.
September 9, The most recent iPhone models, the Apple
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