Telecommunications

First Mobile Networks

Apr 3, 1973

The first call on a handheld mobile phone was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin Cooper.

Advent of WIFI

Jan 1, 1991

In 1991, NCR Corporation with AT&T Corporation invented the precursor to 802.11, intended for use in cashier systems.

First Smartphone

Nov 1, 1992

Unveiled in November 1992 IBM's Simon is credited as being the first ever smartphone.

Entertainment on Phones

Jan 1, 1994

As such, it is no surprise that it was none other than Tetris that made an appearance as the first game featured on a cellphone. Tetris appeared as the first mobile game in 1994 aboard the Hagenuk MT-2000, a phone designed and manufactured in Denmark by the Hagenuk corporation.

VoIP is Invented

Jan 1, 1995

True telecom and internet convergence is possible because of VoIP

First GPS Technologies

Jan 1, 1995

The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) developed the system, which originally used 24 satellites. It became fully operational in 1995.

3G Networks

Jan 1, 1998

The first 3G networks were introduced in 1998

Google is Born

Sep 4, 1998

Google is created.

Fixed Mobile Convergence

Jan 1, 1999

BlackBerry 850 was the first BlackBerry device introduced in 1999. Supporting email and limited HTML browsing, the small device featured a monochrome screen. The BlackBerry 5810 was the first model with phone capabilities but a headset was required.

Web APIs

Feb 7, 2000

While modern web APIs were officially born with Roy Fieldings dissertation Architectural Styles and the Design of Network-based Software Architectures in 2000--Web APIs first appeared in the wild with the introduction of Salesforce on February 7th, when the company officially launched its API at the IDG Demo 2000 conference.