Timeline of Communication
Communication has existed in various forms since man appeared on Earth. The methods, however, consisted of a disorganized set of signs that could have different meanings to each human using them. It wasn’t until three million years after man’s debut, around the year 30,000 B.C.E that communication began to take on an intentional, manufactured format. Humans have communicated with one another in some shape or form ever since time immemorial. But to understand the history of communication, we have to go back to the history.
Pre 20th century Media Impact
- 30,000 BC – In ice-age Europe, people mark ivory, bone, and stone with patterns to keep track of time, using a lunar calendar.
- Prior to 3500BC – Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes.
- 14,000 BC – In what is now Mezhirich, Ukraine, the first known artifact with a map on it is made using bone.
- 3500sBC– The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing.
- 16th century BC – The Phoenicians develop an alphabet.
- 105 – Tsai Lun invents paper.
- 751 – Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas.
- 1250 – The quill is used for writing.
- 1305 – The Chiese develop wooden block movable type printing.
- 1792 – Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line.
- 1831 – Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph.
- 1843 – Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line.
- 1844 – Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp, eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply.
- 1876 – Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston.
- 1877 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.
- 1889 – Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone.
20th Century
- 1902 – Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland.
- 1920 – Radio station KDKA based in Pittsburgh began the first broadcast.
- 1925 – John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal.
- 1947 – Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs propose a cell-based approach which led to "cellular phones."
- 1947 – Full-scale commercial television is first broadcast.
- 1958 – Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use.
- 1965 - First email sent (at MIT).
- 1969 – The first hosts of ARPANET, Internet's ancestor, are connected.
- 1971:
~ Erna Schneider Hoover invent a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.
~ 8-inch floppy disk removable storage medium for computers is introduced.
- 1975 - "First list servers are introduced.
- 1981:
~Hayes Smart modem introduced.
~ Nordic Mobile Telephone, the world´s first automatic mobile phone is put into operation
- 1983 - Microsoft Word software is launched.
- 1992:
~Neil Pap worth sends the first SMS (or text message).
~Internet2 organization is created.
~IBM ThinkPad 700C laptop computer created. It was lightweight compared to its predecessors.
- 1994 – Internet radio broadcasting is born.
- 1996 - Motorola StarTAC mobile phone introduced. It was significantly smaller than previous cellphones.
- 1998 - Lotus Notes software is launched.
- 999:
~Sirius satellite radio is introduced.
~Napster peer-to-peer file sharing is launched.
21ST CENTURY
- 2001 – First digital cinema transmission by satellite in Europe of a feature film by Bernard Pauchon and Philippe Binant.
- 2003 – Myspace is launched.
- 2003 – Skype video calling software is launched.
- 2004 – What would become the largest social networking site in the world, Facebook is launched.
- 2005 – YouTube, the video sharing site, is launched.
- 2006 – Twitter.
- 2007 -iPhone is launched.
- 2010 - Instagram is launched. IPad is created.
- 2011 - Snapchat is launched.
