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The first message transmitted was "Why don't you write, you rascals?"
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Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson. He said, "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."
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The first silent movie released was The Great Train Robbery. It lasted about 12 minutes. It played across the country in 1904 and then in the first nickelodeons (theaters). It cost a nickel to see.
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New radio station, KDKA, went on the air to broadcast the election returns of the Harding-Cox presidential contest.
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The first movie with sound was The Jazz Singer. The first words heard were, "Wait a minute, wait a minute. You ain't heard nothin' yet!"
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This broadcast was made available in London.
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The first computer occupied about 1,800 square feet, used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, and weighed almost 50 tons.
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NBC made the first coast-to-coast color broadcast when it telecast the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 1954.
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The first satellite television signal was relayed from Europe to the Telstar satellite over North America
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The first email was sent in late 1971 by Ray Tomlinson. He doesn't remember what he said. When he knew the program worked, he sent a message to the rest of his group explaining how to send messages over the network. That is how email was first announced to the world.
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This term "first home computer" seems to have many opinions. The general time seems to be around 1977.
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Martin Cooper invented the first handheld analog cell phone.
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The first camcorder was invented by Jerome Lemelson in 1980. It was analog.
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Tim Berners-Lee implemented the first successful communication between an Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) client and server via the Internet. The Internet was born.
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The first text message was sent in December 1992 by Neil Papworth to Richard Jarvis. The message said, "Merry Christmas".
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Facebook began is Thefacebook and was created by Mark Zuckerberg. The social network site began as Facemash at Harvard then went on to be Thefacebook after he left the university. The name was finally changed to Facebook.
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YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim. It began in a garage and by summer of 2006 was one of the fastest growing websites.
