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First Telegraph Sent
First telegraph sent by Samuel Morse he wrote "What hath God wrought?" from the Supreme Court chamber in the Capitol in Washington, D.C., to the B & O Railroad Depot in Baltimore, Maryland. -
Trans-atlantic cable becomes operational
The cable running under the atlantic ocean became operational reducing the time for communication between england and america from 10 days to a matter of minutes. -
telephone
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First programmable computer
The Z1, originally created by Germany's Konrad Zuse in his parents living room in 1936 to 1938 and is considered to be the first electro-mechanical binary programmable (modern) computer and really the first functional computer. -
First Satelite launched
The first sattelite launched was sputnik 1 and was the worlds first artificial sattelite -
First Email sent
The queen sent her first email -
Birth of the internet
The Internet began as a Cold War military technology. It was a way for military computers to communicate over long distances. Other institutions, such as universities and hospitals began to associate their computers through the Internet during the 1970s and 1980s. -
Birth of TCP/IP
On this date, approximately 400 computers connected to a network called ARPAnet all started communicating with each other with a collection of mechanisms known informally as TCP/IP. -
Whitehouse Website Launched
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Launch of google
Google began in March 1996 as a research project -
Launch of Trademe
Trade Me Ltd the site was founded in 1999 by New Zealand entrepreneur Sam Morgan -
Launch Of Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg Launched facebook as a tribute to his previous Facemash