History Of Communication

Cave Paintings

38,000 BCE

Cave paintings (also known as "parietal art") are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, to some 40,000 years ago in Eurasia.

Telegraph

Oct 21, 1832

Baron Schilling von Canstatt successfully demonstrates the first telegraph in history in his room.

Telephone

Oct 9, 1876

Bell makes the first two-way long distance telephone call between Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, USA.

Morsecode Over Radio

Aug 19, 1894

British physicist Sir Oliver Lodge demonstrated the reception of Morse code signaling using radio waves using a "coherer".

First Transcontinental Telephone Call

Jan 25, 1915

The first transcontinental telephone call, with Thomas Augustus Watson at 333 Grant Avenue in San Francisco receiving a call from Alexander Graham Bell at 15 Dey Street in New York City.

First Television

Jan 26, 1926

John Logie Baird demonstrates the world's first television system to transmit live, moving images in tone graduations, to 40 members of the Royal Institution. The 30-line images are scanned mechanically by a disk with a spiral of lenses at 12.5 images per second.

First Television Commercial

Jul 1, 1941

The world's first legal TV commercial, for Bulova watches, occurs at 2:29 PM over WNBT (now WNBC) New York before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. The 10-second spot displayed a picture of a clock superimposed on a map of the United States, accompanied by the voice-over "America runs on Bulova time."

First Email

Jul 4, 1971

The first email is created and sent by Ray Thomlinson, a computer engineer working under ARPAnet.

First Text Message

Dec 3, 1992

The first SMS ever sent was by Brit Neil Papworth who texted ‘Happy Christmas’ to Vodafone director Richard Jarvis at a staff Christmas party. Papworth sent the Short Messaging Service from his work computer to an Orbitel 901 handset.

Yahoo

Mar 1, 1995

Yahoo! Inc. was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995.

Wikipedia

Mar 25, 1995

Ward Cunningham may have created the first wiki on the Internet domain c2.com on 25 March1995, but the most popular Wiki, Wikipedia, was launched on January 15, 2001 by Larry Sanger and Jimmy Wales.

Facebook

Feb 4, 2004

What initially begins as a drunken hacking attack on the Harvard network results in the creation of a popular social networking site. As of February 2012, Facebook has more than 845 million active users.

Google

Aug 19, 2004

Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004.

YouTube

Feb 14, 2005

Three paypal employees start Youtube on the grounds that they have difficulty sharing videos. The domain name www.youtube.com was activated on February 14, 2005, and the website was developed over the subsequent months.

iPhone

Jun 29, 2007

The iPhone was invented by Steve Jobs.