History of Telecommunications Timeline

The First Telegraph Line

1792

Claude Chappe establishes the first ever long-distance Telegraph Line.

The Construction of the Electric Telegraph

1831

Joseph Henry proposes to build an electric telegraph line and successfully finishes his project

The Morse Code

1836

Samuel Morse develops the Morse Code, which is still used in the Modern time.

Electric Printing Telegraph

1843

A fore runner of the original Fax machine put out in the market.

The Construction of the first long-distance Electric Telegraph

1843

Samuel Morse, after his success in creating a language, builds the first long-distance electric Telegraph

The first electric telephone exhibited in Boston

1876

Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson successfully create the worlds first electric telephone.

The Phonograph is invented

1877

Thomas Edison creates the first successful phonograph, used to record and play sounds. The system is pretty simple. The sound waves are recorded as physical deviations on a circular disc. To play the recording a stylus traces the deviations and recreates the sound recorded.

Direct Call Established

1889

Almon Strowger makes a direct call network after stumbling into a couple troubles with his local telephone network. This is caused the Strowger Switch.

The first Broadcast

1920

Russian Radio station based on Pittsburgh called KDKA started the first broadcast in history.

First TV Signal

1925

John Logie Baird writes his name in history by transmitting the first ever TV Signal.

Radiofax

1926

Commercial availability of the radio fax

The frequency hopping spread spectrum

1942

Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil develop a communication technique very useful for tht time called the frequency hopping spread spectrum.

First Computer

1943

A Post Office research team led by telecommunications research engineer Tommy Flowers designed and constructed Colossus – the world’s first programmable electronic computer. It contained 1,500 electronic valves and played a crucial part in cracking German codes during the second world war.

Cellular Phones

1947

Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs propose a cell-based approach which led to "cellular phones."

TV is born

1947

A full scale TV signal broadcasting was put to action.

First Transatlantic telephone cable

1956

The first transatlantic telephone cable, TAT-1, was laid between Scotland and Newfoundland, Canada.

Geosynchronus Sattelite Launch

1963

17.5 years after famous author Arthur C. Clarke's article the first geosynchronous satellite is launched, meaning the satellite takes the same amount of time to orbit the earth as the earth rotates around itself.

Fax Machine

1964

First modern fax machine commercially available (Long Distance Xerography)

First Email

1965

First email sent (at MIT).

Change in waveguides

1966

Charles Kao realizes that silica-based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection.

Internets ancestors are established

1969

The first hosts of ARPANET, Internet's ancestor, are connected.

Fix for telephone trafficking

1971

Erna Schneider Hoover invent a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.

8-inch Floppy disk

1971

8-inch floppy disk removable storage medium for computers is introduced.

PC is established

1976

The personal computer (PC) market is born.

Nordic Mobile Telephone

1981

The world's first automatic mobile phone is put into operation

First Modem

1981

Hayes Smartmodem introduced.

Microsoft Word

1983

Microsoft Word software is launched.

The World Wide Web

1989

Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau build the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN.

IBM Notes

1989

Lotus Notes software is launched.

WordPerfect

1989

WordPerfect 5.1 word processing software released.

GSM

1991

The Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) is a standard developed by the European Telecommunications Standards Institute is established.

Internet is evolving

1991

Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second.

First SMS

1992

Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).

Internet2

1992

Internet2 organization is created.

IBM Thinkpad 700C

1992

IBM ThinkPad 700C laptop computer created. It was lightweight compared to its predecessors.

Mosaic

1993

Mosaic graphical Web browser is launched.

Motorola StarTAC

1996

Motorola StarTAC mobile phone introduced. It was significantly smaller than previous cellphones.

SixDegrees.com

1997

SixDegrees.com is launched, the first of a number of early social networking services

Sirius Radio

1999

The Sirius satellite radio is introduced

Cyworld

2001

Cyworld adds social networking features and becomes the first of a number of mass-market social networking service

Skype

2003

Skype video calling software is launched.

YouTube

2005

YouTube, the video sharing site, is launched.

Reddit

2005

Reddit, one of the biggest and best social media networks ever created.

Twitter

2006

Twitter is launched.

iPhone

2007

iPhone is launched.

Facebook

2009

Facebook is launched, becoming the largest social networking site in 2009.

Whatsapp

2009

Whatsapp is launched.

Instagram

2010

Instagram is launched, one of the most useless social media application ever.

Snapchat

2011

Snapchat is launched.

Discord

2015

Discord is Launched

First Mars signal

2030

In 2030 the first mars colonizers from Earth reach mars and send a succes video and audio transmission

Holographic Technology

2047

Russian Engineers succesfully create the worlds first holographic Tablet, and this will result in great inventions to come.

Second Party

2050

The second pair of colonizers will recah mars in 2050. This will result in the expansion of the HQ on mars and there will be more hands to help to help with the work.

Exo-Body

2065

The Dutch create protoptype smart body parts. These would be used to upgrade life efficiency and life span.

Exo-Body

2068

The dutch succesfully finalize their program by creating the first smart artificial eye. This eye connects to everything from your phone to your brain. You can zoom in and out and see notifications and control them with your mind.

Martian Colony

2070

The Martian Colony is up to 50-70 people. About 10 worker drones and worker robots are launched there to help expand the colony and living and working spaces.

Full body transplant

2173

The Americans work together with the Dutch to Move all your devices into an holographic projector just located on your forearms. The device works with thousands of pieces of nano-technology that helps transmits information between your armonitor and other smart devices located in your body. This helps move your whole mobile devices just in to your body. The positive about this is because of the new radiation cancelling flexible materials, the device wont show itself in anyway unless you use it.

Venus

2269

Humanity explores Venus via Super Exo-Suits to withstand the heat and radiotion as well as other set backs.

Humanity Evolves again

2420

Humanity becomes the ultimate lifeform. The brains and the muscles in an average human being are increased by 1200% because of the transplants made in the body. Because of the transplants the body was forced to evolve.

Speed of light Communication

3000

Humans have discovered a way to communicate faster than light. The materials in this piece of technology are all very efficient and the signals are transmitted through quantum entanglement.