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Period: Jan 2, 1000 to
Communication
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Sep 21, 1000
Cuneiform Writing 3500 BC
3500 BC - The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing which was pictographs of accounts written on clay tablets.
The Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing. -
Sep 22, 1000
Papyrus Paper invented 170 BC
170 BC Papyrus rolls and early parchments made of dried reeds - first portable and light writing surfaces. -
First visual/ Optical Line 1793
Claude Chappe invents the first long-distance semaphore (visual or optical) telegraph line. -
1799 Rosetta Stone Discovered
The Rosetta Stone is discovered (we qre now able to decypher hieroglyphs) Champollion later decyphers the Rosetta Stone -
1837 Electric Telegraph
1837 Electric Telegraph Invented -
The earliest Keyboard invented
1845 Samuel Morse invents the keyboard. -
1877 Tin Foil Phonograph
1877 Thomas Edison and John Kreusi develop a tin foil phonograph. -
Cameras available for sale
1888 George Eastman markets his Kodak Camera Number 1 and sells 2500 at $25.00 each. -
1894 First Motion Picture theatre
1894 Thomas Edison opens the first motion picture theater (a 'peep" show) in New York City on Broadway. The cost is 5 cents per show. -
1895 First sound movies
1895 Thomas Edison creates the first sound movies (unsynchronized). -
Radio Stations in the US
1921 The USA has 8 commercial radio stations. -
Live Television created
1927 AT&T Labs transmits live television. -
The Z1 computer
1936 Konrad Zuse builds the Z1 computer. It has keyboard input, mechanical switches, and stores its own programs. -
First FM radio broadcasting
1941 First FM radio broadcasting. -
The first Electronic telephone answering machine
1950 Bell Labs and Western Electric create the first telephone answering machine -
First Color Television broadcast
First commercial color television broadcast (CBS). -
First floppy disk
The flexible memory discs are first developed. -
IBM 650
The IBM 650 is the first mass-produced computer. -
First Color TV
The first Color Television sets are available. -
Bank Of America starts coming up with better security.
The Bank of America is the first bank to use magnetic ink on checks to process them more efficiently. -
First RAM is produced
The first Random Access Memory (RAM) hips are produced at Intel. -
First Laser Printer is Invented
The Laser Printer is developed. -
Pong invented
The PONG video game is an overnight success -
Apple Created
Apple Computer is founded. -
Videodiscs created
The first videodiscs hit the market. -
Walkman created
Sony introduces the Walkman. -
Walkman invented
Sony introduces the Walkman -
First Fiber Optic phoneline was used
1983 AT&T uses the first fiber optic phoneline. -
IBM released
IBM PC AT released. -
Cd sales go up, Vynl goes down
The death of records: CD player sales surpass turntables. -
Start of Desktop Publishing
Apple introduces the LaserWriter laser printer which includes Adobe's PostScript language inside. At the same time, Aldus introduces PageMaker (the first page layout application). Desktop Publishing is born. -
Internet is growing....
1993 Internet consists of more than 1.8 million computers. -
Craigslist first comes about
Craigslist, created by Craig Newmark becomes online service in San Francisco. -
Dial up Services start to emerge
America Online, CompuServe, and Prodigy begin offering dial-up internet service. -
Google founded
Larry Page and Sergey Brin found Google while at Stanford. -
Y2K
Computer glitch, Y2K, expected with new millennium. -
Google begins selling advertisements
Google begins selling advertisements based on search words. -
First iPod created and launched
First model, with mechanical scroll wheel. Started at 5GB, then 10 GB model released later. -
Myspace created
MySpace is created by eUniverse employees; sold to News Corporation in 2005 for $580 million. -
Mark Zuckerberg Launches Facebook
Facebook is launched -
Youtube luanched
Youtube is launched; sold to Google a year later for $1.65 billion. -
Wii launches
Wii launches and hits stores worldwide. People are now able to play videogames, stream videos, chat and surf the web all in one place -
android vs. iPhone
Adroid phones such as T-Mobiles G1 are debuted, but do not reach numbers with sales as high as the iPhone. -
GPS devices are created
GPS devices are now seen in phones and bought as a necessity in automobiles.
