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Johann Gutenburg invents a printing press using movable metal type. The things he printed came from the way the Chinese did their printing with wooden blocks.
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Early news-papers were published in Germany.
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A mechanical semaphore is invented in France. A semaphore is machine that conveys information into signs.
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Ada Byron, a mathematician, writes the worlds first computer program for a computing machine designed by Charles Babbbage, but never built.
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Samuel Morse creates a telegraph. Using sounds like dashes and dots as syllables people could send simple messages.
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First susessful transmissions are made over a transatlantic cable. In other words, transmissions over the Atlantic.
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Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone. Transmitting the sound of the voice clearly over electrical wires.
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Thomas Edison invents the phonograph a device to record sound on a wax cylinder.
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Long distance calls are made for the first time. It started in 1947, taking seven power towers from Boston to New York the signal was powerful enough, later technology didn't call for so many towers.
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Marconie sends the fisrt radio signal accross the Atlantic ocean. It was sent to Poldhu, Cornwall.
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Pictures are first transmitted over telephone lines. Turning the photo in tiny parts it could travel like data.
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Very first few homes get television sets to watch broadcast programs. The picturesa were in black and white and the sounds weren't clear as they are today.
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First communications sattelite is launched. Allowing worldwide live broadcast of the 1964 Olympics.
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The internet is created by the U.S.Government as means of military communication. It would be of course later, public.
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The first E-mail messages are sent.
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The personal computer, both small and powerful, is invented. The internet was surprisingly made before it.
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The first emoticon is used in an e-mail message. This was seven years after the invention of the e-mail.
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The first cell phones are for sale. These were big and bulgy, and had no texting option.
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Tim Berners-Lee invents the world wide web. Before it was for the goverment, but it got public because of him.
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Marc Andreeson creats the first browser program allowing people to navigate the web. It was really famous and called Mosiac.
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The Chinese invent paper from rags. Shredding the rags and making a pulp and then drying makes the thing we still use today.
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Byzantine ship captains use colored flags to send signals to one another across water. Depending on the wave or motion of the flag it could mean differant things.
