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1838
Samuel Morse invents a telegraph that can send short and long beeps, called “dots” and “dashes” -
1901
WW1 accelerates the development of radio for military communication -
1958
First communications satellite is launched, allowing worldwide live broadcast of 1964 Olympics -
1964
Mainframe computers are created and put to use in large companies -
1971
The first email messages are sent -
1973
Marty Cooper invented the mobile phone -
1976
Apple Company is founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak and Ronald Wayne -
1989
Tim Berners-Lee invents the World Wide Web -
1996
Google company is formed, dominating the Web -
1998
Paypal is created, dominating the ecommerce field. -
2000
flash drives were first sold by IBM -
2005
google launched its mapping service -
2007
apple released the first iphone -
2011
the mars rover was used to find one of the biggest space discoveries -
2012
researchers from harvard university discovered gene-editing