Communication in History

Alphabet

Jan 1, 1700

http://www.history.com/news/ask-history/who-created-the-first-alphabetBefore the alphabet was invented, early writing systems had been based on pictographic symbols known as hieroglyphics, or on cuneiform wedges, produced by pressing a stylus into soft clay. Because these methods required a plethora of symbols to identify each and every word, writing was complex and limited to a small group of highly-trained scribes. Sometime during the second millennium B.C. (estimated between 1850 and 1700 B.C.),

Computer

Jan 1, 1822

http://www.computerhope.com/issues/ch000984.htm
Nowadays you can carry your computer/laptop. Back then a computer was very huge, you had to be rich and have big space to have a computer back then. Even though the computer was invented around 1822 it may seem old, but we still uses computers now. They make look different, but we still have computers now.

Telegraph

Jan 1, 1831

http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph Samuel Morse invented the telegraph in the 1830s and 1840s. Morse sent his first telegraph message in 1844. We also use the telegraph, but we called them the telephone, faxmachine and the internet.

Telephone

Mar 1, 1876

http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/telephone.htmlAlexander Graham Bell was the inventor of the telephone. He was actually trying to invent something to help the deaf community. He work at a deaf school.

Skype

Aug 1, 2003

Skype was invented in this centry. 2003 was the year Friis invented Skype. Skype is like a video phone like you can talk to people from a distances, but yet see them face to face. The cool part of skype is that you can chat in a group.

FaceTime

Jun 7, 2010

http://www.cnet.com/news/apple-engineer-details-facetimes-history-including-original-codename/ Facetime is like another way to video the peole you love. You can only use FaceTime if you have a iphone. Steve Jobs was the one who invented the iphone and the FaceTime.