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30,000 BCE
Rock paintings (France)
In prehistoric times, human beings manifested themselves through drawings engraved symbolically on the walls of caves or caverns. -
5000 BCE
Pictograms (China and Egypt)
Iconic element that expresses emotions in a non-linguistic graphic way. -
776 BCE
Homing pigeons (Greece)
Birds trained as a means to transport short written messages tied to their legs. -
550 BCE
First postal service (Persia)
It was developed during the Persian Empire; the men on horseback were in charge of transporting the messages. -
37
Heliograph (Rome)
It is a device responsible for transmitting signals using the reflection of sunlight through polished metal. -
105
Paper (China)
Material used to write that has gained strength around the world, the first to produce it on a large scale was the chief of eunuchs Ts'ai Lun of the emperors of China. -
Diaries (Germany)
Printed publication of large-scale news was born to keep people updated. The first newspaper that was published was the Mercurius Gallobelgicus. -
Morse code (United States)
It is a communication system invented by Samuel Morse, consisting of points and lines that transmit messages through sounds. -
Telephone (United States)
Alexander Graham Bell patented the first device capable of transmitting and receiving messages in real time from the human voice. -
First transatlantic signal (from Cornwall to Newfoundland)
In spite of the thought of the unbelievers theoreticians of the time, Marconi managed to transmit a message by wireless telegraphy (radio) from England to Canada. -
First television broadcast (United Kingdom)
It was achieved by BBC One in England followed by CBS and NBS in the United States using mechanical systems. -
Appearance of the first computer (United States)
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) Created by the Ballistic Research Laboratory of the United States Army, the first machine capable of performing mathematical calculations at high speed. -
ARPANET (United States)
(Advanced Research Projects Agency Network),
The network of the Advanced Research Projects Agency was the beginning of what we know today as the Internet, it was a network of computers created with communicative purposes to maintain the interaction between the different governmental areas created on behalf of the Department of Defense from United States. -
First email (United States)
Sent by Raymond Tomlinson computer programmer who managed to send a message between two different machines and came up with the user name to identify the recipient. -
First public use of the word internet
Vint Cerf and Bob Khan engineers known as the internet's parents name the word internet during a protocol transmission. -
WWW (United States)
The World Wide Web was born thanks to the idea of Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a UK researcher physicist from CERN (Conseil Européen pour la Recherche Nucléaire) to share information and store it in one place “the web”. -
First social network
SixDegrees was born showing the idea that anyone can know another in only six steps; At first, the creation of social networks was very basic because it only focused on adding people to the profile. -
Web 2.0
Concept popularized by Tim O'Reilly to name the internet platforms that allow users to move from passive users to active content generators, such as: Blogger, Facebook, Wikipedia, YouTube.
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