Timeline: ICT

Period: 4000 BCE to 3001 BCE

WRITING

The evolution of writing was a process originated by economic practice and necessity in the ancient Near East.

2800 BCE

THE CUNEIFORM WRITING

The cuneiform was a written system that was used in many regions of the Near East Asia from the end of IV the millennium a.C. until almost the change of era.

850 BCE

THE GREEK ALPHABET

The Greek alphabet comes from the Phoenician script. The Greeks took the alphabet of the Phoenicians, thanks to the commercial contacts that maintained with them throughout the Mediterranean.

105

PAPER

Cai Lun presented to the emperor the paper he made, who was pleased, and issued an imperial edict ordering that the paper and the process of its manufacture be widely adopted around China. As a result, China's civilization developed rapidly with literature.

1450

PRINTING

Johannes Gutenberg was a German goldsmith, inventor of the printing press with modern moving types. His most recognized work is the 42-line Bible, which is considered the first book printed with mobile typography.

May 30, 1631

FIRST NEWSPAPER

The world's first official newspaper was La Gazette de France by French physician and journalist Theóphraste Renaudot.

1833

FIRST TELEGRAPHIC MESSAGE

The first telegraphic message was sent at a distance of 1000m.

1837

MORSE CODE

Is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment.

1854

TELEPHONE

The Italian inventor Antonio Meucci built a telephone to connect his office with his bedroom, because his wife was immobilized by rheumatism.

1860

THE PONY EXPRESS

The Pony Express was a fast mail service that crossed the United States. It began in St. Joseph and reached as far as Sacramento.

Dec 28, 1895

FIRST FILM

With this short film, filmed at the home of his in-laws, Louis le Prince advanced 7 years to the date considered as the birth of cinema, when the first film of the Lumière brothers was shown. https://youtu.be/BxeLacGat-c

1899

RADIO

The Italian Guillermo Marconi gets the link through the La Mancha Channel between England and France, at a distance of 48 km, in what was the first transmission between the two countries. 1900 The radio is invented in modulation amplitude.

Mar 25, 1925

TELEVISION

In 1910 with the invention of the Nipkow Disc, the first advance is made to make television a relevant communicational medium.
Scottish inventor John Logie Baird performs the first real experience using two discs, one on the transmitter and one on the receiver.

Jan 26, 1926

FIRST TELEVISION

Scottish engineer and inventor John Logie Baird congregate in his laboratory in London for the assistance of a historic event: the first public demonstration of a system capable of displaying moving images.
It was the fruit of years of research and work that had begun in 1884 when Paul Gottlieb Nipkow invented and patented an element explorer of the image.
https://youtu.be/9DFcYRxFdTI (1) https://youtu.be/2dmY43KeBuE (2) https://youtu.be/osF5gg6RKL4 (3)

1938

THE FIRST COMPUTER

The German engineer Konrad Zuse completes the Z1, the first computer that can be considered as such.

1969

INTERNET

In the middle of the Cold War, the United States created an exclusively military network, so that in the hypothetical case of a Russian attack, military information could be accessed from anywhere in the country. This network was called ARPANET.
Internet was created when the first computer connection was established, known as ARPANET.

Jul 16, 1969

THE MAN COMES TO THE MOON

Neil Armstrong, Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin and Michael Collins were the astronauts on Apollo 11.

Oct 17, 1973

FIRST MOBILE PHONE

The first mobile phone was developed by Motorola. More specifically it was the engineer Martin Cooper, who gave life to this glorious invention. Cooper called the first mobile phone, Dyna-Trac. It weighed about 1 kilogram and its battery lasted only about 35 minutes.

1979

CD

The main research and development work was done by Phillips and Sony. One of the first CDs came on the market in 1982, and remains to this day as one of the most popular audio recording media.