History of Communication Technologies

  • Period: Jan 1, 1100 to Jan 1, 1350

    Gothic period

  • Period: Jan 1, 1350 to

    Renaissance

  • Gutenberg Printing Press
    Jan 1, 1440

    Gutenberg Printing Press

  • Period: to

    Enlightenment

  • Period: to

    Romanticism

  • First Newspaper in Canada

    First Newspaper in Canada

  • Optical Telegraph

    Optical Telegraph

    Invented in France
  • Period: to

    Victorian period

  • Electric Telegraph

    Electric Telegraph

  • Canada Post

    Canada Post

  • Telephone

    Telephone

  • Period: to

    Modernism

  • Radio

    Radio

  • First National Broadcast

    First National Broadcast

    For the Diamond Jubilee of Confederation
  • TV News

    TV News

  • First TV broadcast in Canada

    First TV broadcast in Canada

  • Period: to

    Post-modernism

  • ARPANet

    ARPANet

  • Cellular Phone

    Cellular Phone

  • BBS

    BBS

  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web

    Invented by Tim Berners Lee
  • RSS

    RSS

  • Wikis

    Wikis

  • First social networking services

    First social networking services

  • Google Search

    Google Search

  • Blogs

    Blogs

  • Wikipedia launched

    Wikipedia launched

  • RSS 2.0

    RSS 2.0

  • Podcasts

    Podcasts

  • Facebook

    Facebook

  • Twitter

    Twitter

  • Coronation Gospels published

    Coronation Gospels published

  • Period: to Jan 1, 1100

    Romanesque period