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Jan 4, 1450
Johann Gutenberg invents a printing press using movable metal type.
- Black letters roll ink on a piece of paper. 2.Invented printing press with Replaceable/ moveable wooden or metal letters in 1436 (completed by 1440).
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mechanical semaphore is invented in france.
- Popular in the late 18th to the early 19th century.
- System of conveging information by means of visual signals.
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Ada Byron, a mathematician, writes the world's first computer program for computing machine designed by Charles Babbage, but never built.
- First described in 1837.
- Babbage continued to refine the design until his death in 1871.
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Gugliermo Marconi sends the first radio signal across the Atlantic Ocean.
- Predictions were made that the radio waves would be lost.
- Signals were sent in morse code from Doldhu, Cornwall in England.
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First communications satellite is launched, allowing worldwide live broadcast of the 1964 Olympics.
- Summer Olyimpics in Tokyo- Job to relay
- First truly Geostationary satellite launched in orbit was the Syncom 3.
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The internet is invented by the U.S. government as a means of military communication.
1.DARPA Internet, Largely the plaything of academic military researchers spent more than a decade in relative obscurity.
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The frist E-mail messages are sent.
- First E-mail was sent byy a chap named Ray Tomlinson, who developed the software.
- First E-mail was sent betweeen two machines that were right next to eachother.
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Marc Andreeson creates the first browser program, allowing people to navigate the web.
- Andreeson was still a student researcher at the university of Illinois at Urbana- Champaign in 1993 when he helped conceive and create the 1st popular Internet browser.
- Andreeson founded a program called Netscape.
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Chinese make paper from rags.- 105
- Ts'ai Lun seems to be the 1st to start a paper making company.
- He may have based his idea off of the common bark cloth.
- Theh ingredients were finly chopped mulberry bark and hemp rags.