Timeline: taysia dasha

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chinese invent printing by inking carved wood blocks

Mar 3, 776

homing pigeons carry messages about the olympics for ancient greeks

Mar 21, 1450

Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press using movable metal type.

Mar 3, 1609

early newspaper are published in germany

Mar 21, 1792

Mechanical semaphore is invented in france

Mar 3, 1830

ada byron, a mathematician, writes the worlds first computer program for a computing mahine designed by charles babbage, but never built

Mar 3, 1837

samuel morse invents a telegraph that can send short and long beeps, called "dots and dashes."

Mar 21, 1866

first sucessfful transmissions over a transatlantic cable.

Mar 3, 1876

alexander graham bell invents the telephone, transmitting the sound of the voice clearly over electorial wires.

Mar 21, 1877

Thomas edison invents the phonograph, a device to record sound on a wax cylinder.

Mar 3, 1884

first long distance phone calls are made

Mar 21, 1901

gugliermo Marconi sends the first radio signal across the atlantic ocean.

Mar 21, 1924

Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines.

Mar 21, 1928

very first few homes get television set to watch broadcast programs

Mar 21, 1963

first communications satellite is launched, allowing worldwide live broadcast of the 1964 olypics.

Mar 21, 1970

the internet is invented by the u.s government as a means of military communication.

It's a fact of history that often the most technical advances are precipitated by times of war. To rapidly take technology to the next level requires many smart minds congregating to concentrate on one project. Such organization requires the money and resources only a government can provide.

Mar 21, 1972

The first email messages are sent

These first messages were sent in late 1971. The next release of TENEX went out in early 1972.

Mar 3, 1975

the personal computer, both small and powerful, is invented

By rights Xerox PARC could claim the PC was invented there and built in 1972, they created ALTO the first PC ever built." (years before Apple built their version and marketed it to the public), "not to mention laying the foundation for the program that eventually became the basis for the Macintosh
and Windows operating systems." ---research who pirated Apple after they pirated rights from Microsoft- -the facts were stated by cutting edge research among today's foremost scientist's, and theore

Mar 21, 1979

The first emoticon is used in an email message

An emoticon (US: /ɪˈmoʊtɪˌkɒn/, UK: /ɪˈməʊtɪkɒn/) is a facial expression pictorially represented by punctuation and letters, usually to express a writer’s mood

Mar 3, 1982

the first cell phones are available for sale

The history of mobile phones begins with early efforts to develop mobile telephony concepts using two-way radios and continues through emergence of modern mobile phones and associated services.

Mar 21, 1990

Tim berners-lee invents the world wide web

A graduate of Oxford University, Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web, an internet-based hypermedia initiative for global information sharing while at CERN, the European Particle Physics Laboratory, in 1989. He wrote the first web client and server in 1990. His specifications of URIs, HTTP and HTML were refined as Web technology spread.