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60,000 BCE
CAVE PAINTINGS (60000 B.C)
The Leang Tedongnge cave, island of Sulawesi, is preserved the oldest cave painting by Homo sapiens. In this painting represent a wild boar.
I have chosen this because I think it is one of the most important ones at the time. I find it very interesting that with blood, and with other materials of the time, they were able to communicate or represent something that they wanted to explain by painting in this way on the walls of the caves. Also I found very curious that they continue in many caves. -
3000 BCE
CUNEIFORM (3000 B.C)
Mesopotamian cuneiform has been considered the first writing of the humans. This was developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia. -
2500 BCE
ABACUS (2500 B.C)
The abacus was developed in China. It was the first instrument used by man to facilitate his calculation operations. An abacus is an object used to facilitate simple calculations. It is also a wooden frame with parallel wires through which moveable balls run and which is used to teach calculus. -
105
PAPER (105)
The paper was discovered by the Chinese Ts'ai Lun. This was a very important discover in the communication because allowed to move from writing on stones or tablets to writing on paper. -
1450
PRINTING (1450)
The printing was invented by the German Johannes Gutenberg. Printing is a mechanical method for reproducing text and images on paper. It consists of applying an ink, usually oily, to metal parts to transfer or engrave it by pressure. -
TELEGRAPH (1829)
It was Joseph Henry who built the first telegraph in 1829. However, it was the American Samuel Morse who was the driving force behind it. -
TELEPHONE (1854)
The telephone was invented in 1854 by the Italian Antonio Meucci. The purpose was simple: to connect his office to his bedroom so that he could talk to his wife, who was bedridden due to a serious illness. -
TYPEWRITER (1867)
The first machine design was made by the American Christopher Latham Sholes in 1867 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (USA). This breakthrough in communication made it possible to advance communication in many ways. -
FIRST RADIO BROADCAST (1901)
On 12 December 1901, Guglielmo Marconi made one of the great discoveries of modern communication. On that day he proved that wireless signals could be sent across the Atlantic by receiving at his station in St. John's (Newfoundland, Canada) the signal sent to him from Poldhu (Cornwall, UK). -
FIRST AUDIO BROADCAST (1906)
The world's first radio broadcast was made on Christmas Eve 1906, using a high-frequency electromechanical alternator. Reginald Aubrey Fessenden transmitted from Bratetasnt Rock Station, Massachusetts the first audio broadcast. -
TELEVISION (1923)
Television was invented by John Logie Baird in 1923 in the town of Hastings, England and the first television picture was broadcast by Baird in 1926. -
FIRST COMPUTER (1936 AND 1938)
The first computer was called the Z1 and was created by the German Konrad Zuse in your parents' living room. It was considered the first automatic computing machine capable of calculating several sets of numbers and making hard copies of the results. -
EMAIL (1973)
Ray Tomlinson, an engineer at BBN Technologies, sent the first e-mail in 1971. This was achieved after many years of work trying to make it happen. -
INTERNET (1983)
The year 1983 is usually referred to as the year the "Internet was born". It was then that the US Department of Defense decided to use the TCP/IP protocol in its Arpanet network, thus creating the Arpa Internet network. Over the years it became known only as the "Internet". -
GOOGLE (1997)
Its founders, Larry Page and Sergey Brin, were studying for a postgraduate degree in computer science at the prestigious Stanford University in the United States at the end of the 1990s when they wanted to create an Internet site that would classify the web. -
FIRST IPHONE (2007)
The first iPhone was launched in 2007 by Steve Jobs. It had a touchscreen, speaker, headphone port, microphone, 2-megapixel camera, EDGE connectivity and Wi-Fi.
I have chosen this communication advance as the last one as I believe that it has been one of the most useful nowadays and it was a great revolution at the time. They passed from using a mobile phone with keys to a completely digital one. I think it is one of the most useful advances in communication today.
