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Pencils Invented
The first ever formal type of connection between humans which allowed them to write letters to each other which for a long time was the main use of communicating -
Telephone was first invented
The first telephone was invented in the 1870s by Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas Edison. In 1878 the telephone exchanges made the telephone an everyday communication tool for use with 50 users! Today, there are 1.26 billion fixed line users worldwide and 6 billion mobile phone users. -
Computers invented
Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web by creating the first web browser and developing the HTML (Hyper Text Mark-up Language) and HTTP (Hyper Text Transfer Protocol) computer language in 1991 in order to make global connection easier for everyone. The World Wide Web or the Web is a system of interlinked hypertext documents accessed on the internet using a web browser -
Television Invented
The first television was invented in 1927 by Philo Farnsworth after many years of development by others, but at this stage it was black and white only. The first commercial TV programs began in the USA in 1948, communicating news and shaping public opinion. Five years later colour television was invented, but it took until 1965 in order to be available to the public in the USA and even until 1975 in Australia. -
Internet Invented
ARPANET, developed in the 1960s, was the first to join multiple separate networks – the beginning of the internet- but it took until the 1980s to commercialise the internet, removing all restrictions. -
Mobile 1G Networks invented
Launched by Nippon Telegraph and Telephone in 1979, 1G was first introduced to the citizens of Tokyo. By 1984, the first generational network covered all of Japan, making it the first country to have 1G service nationwide. It wasn't until March 6, 1983, that Ameritech introduced 1G to the United States.