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https://www.britannica.com/art/cave-painting
Caveman paintings are our first way of communication back . the numerous paintings and engravings found in caves and shelters dating back to the ice age. -
https://www.britannica.com/topic/Pony-Express a mail service delivering messages, newspapers, and mail using relays of horse-mounted riders
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https://www.elon.edu/u/imagining/time-capsule/150-years/back-1870-1940/ The telephone was a source of communication,, its still a source of communication till this day ! -
Morse Code, either of two systems for representing letters of the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks by an arrangement of dots, dashes, and spaces. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Morse-Code -
On 24 December 1906, the first radio broadcast for entertainment and music was transmitted from Brant Rock, Massachusetts to the general public. https://ethw.org/Milestones:First_Wireless_Radio_Broadcast_by_Reginald_A._Fessenden,_1906
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The first ‘SOS’ to be broadcast was in August 1909 when the American steamer Azaoahoe was disabled with a broken propeller shaft. https://www.oxfordreference.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100519764 -
Jan 13th issue of the Herald fronts the television
The first "television" system broadcast was a straight-line by Philo Farnsworth on September 7th, 1927. The press was presented with this scientific breakthrough on January 13, 1928 http://www.cs.cornell.edu/~pjs54/Teaching/AutomaticLifestyle-S02/Projects/Vlku/history.html -
The world's first television commercial aired on July 1, 1941 during a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies. The ad was for Bulova Watches, a company still in operation today. It lasted for only 10 seconds and aired on a local channel in New York called WNBT. https://www.qualitylogoproducts.com/promo-university/history-of-tv-ads.htm -
In 1971, in a windowless room in Cambridge, Massachusetts, a bearded computer scientist named Ray Tomlinson was hunched before two massive computers, struggling to send the world’s first email. https://www.raytheon.com/news/feature/ray_tomlinson -
In 1992, Neil Papworth, a 22-year-old software programmer from the UK, sent the first ever text message from a computer to his colleague Richard Jarvis. https://www.vodafone.com/news/technology/25-anniversary-text-message -
Facebook, American online social network service that is part of the company Meta Platforms. Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all of whom were students at Harvard University. https://www.britannica.com/topic/Facebook -
Google went public on August 14, 2004. At the IPO, Google's founders offered 19,605,052 shares at a price of $85 per share. https://www.benzinga.com/money/history-google-stock/ -
YouTube, Web site for sharing videos. It was registered on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal. https://www.britannica.com/topic/YouTube -
On January 9, 2007, Apple Inc. CEO Steve Jobs unveils the iPhone—a touchscreen mobile phone with an iPod, camera and Web-browsing capabilities, among other features—at the Macworld convention in San Francisco. Jobs, dressed in his customary jeans and black mock turtleneck, called the iPhone a “revolutionary and magical product that is literally five years ahead of any other mobile phone.” https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/steve-jobs-debuts-the-iphone