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Timeline of Telecomunication

  • PREHISTORY
    5000 BCE

    PREHISTORY

    Prehistoric man communicated through grunts and other sounds. Also, with physical signs with hands and other body movements.
  • EGYPTIANS
    3000 BCE

    EGYPTIANS

    They represented the ideas by means of symbols (hieroglyphics), this way the information could be transported to great distances by different means like papyrus paper, wood, stones, walls.
  • THE ROMANS
    400

    THE ROMANS

    The ROMANS used torches, placed in groups separated from them, at the top of the mountains to communicate in times of war.
  • AZTEC
    1500

    AZTEC

    Communication by means of messages written and carried by men on foot. The Aztec kings made them run great distances, to bring messages and fresh fish.
  • TELEGRAPH

    TELEGRAPH

    The birth of TELEGRAPH. The Telegraph, the first form of electrical communication. Invented by Samuel Morse.
  • TELEFONIA

    TELEFONIA

    Patent # 174,465 is granted to Alexander Graham Bell. The birth of TELEFONIA, the first telephone message was transmitted when G. Bell called his assistant, Thomas Watson, who was in the next room, and said the immortal words "Watson, come here; I want you . "
  • ELECTROMAGNETIC

    ELECTROMAGNETIC

    Heinrich Rudolph Hertz showed that electromagnetic waves existed and that they could be used to move information at very great distances. This would be the predecessor of electromagnetic propagation or radio transmission.
  • RADIO

    RADIO

    Guglielmo Marconi obtained the patent on wireless communications technology (radio).
  • MODULATED AMPLITUDE

    MODULATED AMPLITUDE

    Experiments are performed with AM (Modulated Amplitude) radio diffusion. First transcontinental telephone line with electronic repeaters.
  • THE FIRST FM RADIO STATION

    THE FIRST FM RADIO STATION

    As telephone use increased day by day, it was necessary to develop a methodology to combine 2 or more channels over a single wire. This is known as "multicanalization". HEY. Armstrong perfects radio receiver superheterodyne The first FM Radio Station, KDKA in Pittsburgh, is established.
  • FIRST COMPUTER

    FIRST COMPUTER

    First computer, called Z2 by Konrad Zuse (German).
  • HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

    HIGH-SPEED DIGITAL COMMUNICATIONS

    The birth of high-speed digital communications. The data transmission service is offered commercially; broadband channels for digital signals; PCM is used for TV and voice transmission.
  • ARPANET

    ARPANET

    The United States government gives life to the INTERNET when a team of scientists begins to do research in computer networks. The research was funded by the Advanced Research Projects Agency -ARPA, an organization of the US Department of Defense, better known as ARPANET
  • SATELLITES

    SATELLITES

    Canada and the United States developed satellites for communications in North America.
  • HDTV AND CELULAR TELEPHONY

    HDTV AND CELULAR TELEPHONY

    CELULAR TELEPHONY is born
    The first formats of HDTV are born
  • PENTIUM

    PENTIUM

    In the United States, cellular telephony begins with digital technology. Intel Corp. introduces the PENTIUM processor. The following year, users begin to detect faults in the microprocessor, which creates a great controversy.
  • SATMEX V

    SATMEX V

    In November '98 the services of the Iridium low-orbit (LEO) satellite system begin. On December 4, Mexico launched the fifth satellite (SATMEX V) that will replace Morelos II.
  • FACEBOOK

    FACEBOOK

    Facebook was born in 2004 as a hobby of Mark Zuckerberg, at that time student of Harvard, and as a service for the students of its university.
    Facebook is a social networking website created by Mark Zuckerberg and founded alongside Eduardo Saverin, Chris Hughes and Dustin Moskovitz.
  • WHATSAPP

    WHATSAPP

    WhatsApp is a company created in 2009 by Jan Kuom, a Ukrainian born in a village settled on the outskirts of Kiev, and Brian Acton, an American who worked for Adobe, Apple and Yahoo
  • DIGITAL TELEVISION

    DIGITAL TELEVISION

    The United States turns off analogue television to make way for Digital Television.
  • MAREA, THE LARGEST SUBMARINE FIBER CABLE TO JOIN EUROPE AND THE USA

    MAREA, THE LARGEST SUBMARINE FIBER CABLE TO JOIN EUROPE AND THE USA

    With the mooring work to the beach of Sopelana (Vizcaya) today has started the deployment of the submarine cable Marea, the fastest between both sides of the Atlantic. It will be able to transmit 160 terabits per second (Tbps).