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The very first writings were found in Mesopotamia 5,500 years ago. Cuneiform writing was characterised by being a system of pictograms, stemming from an earlier system of shaped tokens used for accounting
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Paper was invented in China by Cai Lun, the conseulor of the emperor.
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Until this year, all written texts were copied through hand copying. Johannes Gutenberg invented the printer designing wood formes for each letter of the alphabet and even though his business failed the first times, it slowly became more and more popular.
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The typewriter was invented before computers and were used by common people. Their origin isn't very clear because it has evolutioned from other similar devices set in the XVII century. They were finally patented in between 1829 and 1870. There isn't an only creator because many people contributed to its developement.
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Samuel Morse created the telegraph, a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.
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Antonio Meucci invented the telephone. For a long time people have believed that his real creator was Alexander Graham Bell, but he wasn't: he just got the patent before Antonio could because he didn't have enough money.
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Graham Bell did the first telephone call to his assistant Thomas A. Watson.
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The first radio transmission ever happened in 1906 Christmas Eve and was broadcasted from Massachussets, but it wasn't until 1920 that the first aimed-at-entertainment radio transmission started.
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The BBC and the CBS started to broadcast the first public transmissions.
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Alan Turing built the Colossus, a giant computer that permited to descipher in a few seconds the secret messages from the Nazis in the Second World War
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The first comercial computer is set up and was bought by the United States Census Bureau
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The first transatlantic telephone cable started to get installed.
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This may look like it's not related to the ICTs, but I think it really does: before satellites, TV signals didn't go very far. So they would quickly trail off into space instead of following Earth's curve. Sometimes mountains or buildings would block them. Setting up telephone wires over long distances or underwater is difficult and costs a lot. With satellites, TV signals and phone calls are sent upward to a satellite. Then, the satellite can send them back down to different locations on Earth.
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During the Cold War, the United States created an exclusively military network, with the aim that, in the hypothetical case of a Russian attack, military information could be accessed from any point from the country. This network was created in 1969 and was called ARPANET.
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Ray Tomlinson sent the first email ever to himself this year. The message was recieved in another computer in the same room in which there was the same computer that he used to send it.
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In 1973 the GPS was set by Ivan A. Getting and Roger L. Easton. The GPS (Global Positioning System) is a "constellation" of approximately 30 well-spaced satellites that orbit the Earth and make it possible for people with ground receivers to pinpoint their geographic location.
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At first, its two creators, Sergey and Larry, made it as a work for college. Nowadays it's one of the most influential companies in the world.
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Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zukerberg and his schoolmates from the University of Harvard. Even though it isn't the first social network, it ment a before and an after in the world of the ICTs by becoming one of the biggest companies in the world and one of the most used social networks. It has bought some of the most important companies as WhatsApp or Instagram.
