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Communication Technology Timeline
By Wang Lok So
45,000bc First picture communication as a mammoth
3500bc People made pictographs on clay slabs
900bc Chinese made a postal service to send letters to other people
776bc Homing pigeons carry messages about the Olympics from Greece
105 Chinese make paper from old cloth rags
450 Chinese invented printing
900 Byzantine ships use flags to signal other ships
1450 Somebody invented a printing press by moving metal blocks
1609 Early newspapers published in Gemany
1792 Mechanical semaphore invented in France
1830 Ada Byron invents a early computer with numbers but is never made.
1837 Samuel Morse sends a message using short and long beeps called dots and
dashes
1866 First successful transmissions using wires
1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the first telephone
1877 Thomas Edison invents the phoneograph
1884 Long distance phone calls are made
1901 Gugliermo Marconi makes long distance calls across the Atlantic ocean
1924 Pictures are transmitted over telephone lines
1928 The first televisions are made
1963 First communications satellites is launched
1970 Internet was invented to serve as the US military communications systems
1975 Small personal laptop that is pretty powerful.
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1982 First cell phones for sale
1990 Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web
1993 Marc Andreeson creates the first rowser program allowing people to
navigate the web