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Johannes Gutenberg introduces moveable type printing press in Germany.
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First newspapers in Europe
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ideograms are written characters that represent an idea without the use of sounds such as the way we do in modern speaking. Ideograms along with pictograms can relate to early egyptian, sumerian, etc. glyphs.
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Samuel Morse ivented the telegraph which made communication allowed by specific series of beeps such as the SOS morse code signal.
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The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although Sholes soon disowned the machine and refused to use, or even to recommend it.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the teephone in 1876, allowing for communication from further distances.
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Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877.
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In 1894, Guglielmo Marconi invented the radio.
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Gilbert Grosvenor introduced photographs to National Geographic in 1899.
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television became available in crude experimental forms in the late 1920s
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In the 1940s, Audiotape was developed in Germany.
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in 1941, Japan bombed Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, the bombing was reported over radio, and this event soon after led us to bomb Nagasaki and Hiroshima
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The ENIAC was invented by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania and began construction in 1943 and was not completed until 1946. It occupied about 1,800 square feet and used about 18,000 vacuum tubes, weighing almost 50 tons.
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In 1956, Elivs Presley recieved his first gold record (over 1 million sold).
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the 1960s marked the rise of FM radio.
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The Beatles, perhaps the most iconic music group to live, performed in the US and took rock music global
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Ray Tomlinson is generally credited as having sent the first email across a network, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine in 1971, when he sent a message from one Digital Equipment Corporation DEC-10 computer to another DEC-10.
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The DOT pictograms in the United States came from a 1974 finding by the United States Department of Transportation (DOT), which recognized that a standardized set of roadside pictograms were needed for the United States Interstate Highway System. Pictograms however could be found as early as 3400 BCE.
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the term internet was first used. internet allows people to get online for information rather than by book or from person to person.
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Bill Gates and Paul allen, co-founders of Microsoft
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in 1975, VCRs were introduced, the main concern being the need to rewind to start the tape over again.
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Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, co-founders of Apple Computer, Inc.
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CDs were introduced in 1982, bringing media and information to another platform
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i feel that by at least 2020 someone will create some sort of holographic device to be used for communication, allowing to see a person without the use of video chats, even though they are at a distance.
