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Invention of the printing press
The printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg, a German gold seller. The printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. This is considered to be be the beginning of ICT. -
The binary code
The modern binary number system goes back to Gottfried Leibniz who in the 17th century proposed and developed it in his article Explication de l'Arithmétique Binaire. Leibniz invented the system around 1679 but he published it in 1703. -
The Morse code and the telegraph
The telegraph was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication and worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. The Morse code is a system for representing letters of the alphabet, numerals, and punctuation marks by arranging dots, dashes, and spaces. -
The telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is often credited with being the inventor of the telephone since he was awarded the first successful patent. However, there were many other inventors such as Elisha Gray and Antonio Meucci who also developed a talking telegraph. The purpose of this invention was to send human voice over a wire. -
The radio
Guglielmo Marconi is the inventor of the radio. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899, he flashed the first wireless signal across the English Channel and two years later received the letter "S", telegraphed from England to Newfoundland. The first radio broadcast ever in the world's history was made by Reginald Fessenden on Christmas Eve 1906. The radio brought a whole new way for people to communicate and interact. -
The television
The world's first electronic television was created by a 21 year old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth. That inventor lived in a house without electricity until he was age 14.Television broadcasting expanded rapidly after World War II, becoming an important mass medium for advertising, propaganda, and entertainment. -
The first electronic computer (ENIAC)
Presper Eckert, Jr., John William Mauchly, and their associates at the Moore School of Electrical Engineering of the University of Pennsylvania invent the first electronic digital computer (called the ENIAC) which means Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer. Although ENIAC was designed and primarily used to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon. -
UNIVAC I: First commercial computer
The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for robot business application produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. The first Univac was accepted by the United States Census Bureau on March 31, 1951, and was dedicated on June 14 that year. -
Invention of the microprocessor
In January 1971, the first microprocessor Intel 4004 was invented by a team of logic architects and silicon engineers. A microprocessor is also known as a central processing unit in which numbers of peripherals' are fabricated on a single chip. It has ALU (arithmetic and logic unit), a control unit, registers, bus systems and a clock to perform computational tasks. -
First email sent
Ray Tomlinson is generally credited as having sent the first email over a military network called ARPANET, initiating the use of the "@" sign to separate the names of the user and the user's machine in 1971, when he sent a message from one Digital Equipment Corporation DEC-10 computer to another DEC-10. "The test messages were entirely forgettable. . . Most likely the first message was QWERTYIOP or something similar," he said. -
Creation of Microsoft
Microsoft is a multinational computer technology corporation which was founded on 1975 by Bill Gates and Paul Allen in Albuquerque, New Mexico. When Microsoft launched several versions of Microsoft Windows in the 1990s, they had captured over 90% market share of the world's personal computers. As of June 30, 2015, Microsoft has a global annual revenue of US$86.83 Billion and 128,076 employees worldwide. -
Apple Macintosh launched
The first Macintosh was introduced on 1984, by Steve Jobs and it was the first commercially successful personal computer to feature two old known then, but still unpopular features—the mouse and the graphical user interface, rather than the command-line interface of its predecessors.It was designed, developed and commercialised by Apple Inc. -
World Wide Web (WWW) invention
Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web (WWW) in 1989, while working at CERN. The web was originally conceived and developed to meet the demand for automated information-sharing between scientists in universities and institutes around the world.The world wide web opened up the internet to everyone, not just scientists. It connected the world in a way that was not possible before and made it much easier for people to get information, share and communicate. -
The first smartphone (SPC)
The first smartphone, created by IBM, was invented in 1992 and released for purchase in 1994. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator (SPC). After two years,the device officially hit the market for a cool price of $1,100 a pop. And after only six months, it had sold over 50,000 units.
The first smartphone saw the advent of the modern internet. And that invention sparked the very beginning of the digital telecommunication phenomenon we see today. -
Google launched
Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. The search engine soon proved successful finally settling at Mountain View in 2003. This marked a phase of rapid growth, with the company making its initial public offering in 2004 and quickly becoming one of the world's largest media companies. They launched products like Google News, Gmail, Google Maps, Google Chrome or Google +. -
Facebook
Facebook is a social networking service as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students, but was expanded to other colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and gradually most universities in the United States and Canada, corporations, and by September 2006, to everyone with a valid email address along with an age requirement of being 13 and older. It is available in 111 languages. -
Youtube
YouTube is an American online video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube is now one of Google's subsidiaries.YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. In 2019, the total incomes were US$15,15 thousands of millions. -
First iPhone announced
The iPhone is the first smartphone designed and marketed by Apple Inc. On January 9, 2007, Steve Jobs announced the first iPhone at the Macworld convention, receiving substantial media attention. Jobs announced that the first iPhone would be released later that year. On June 29, 2007, the first iPhone was released in the United States.
The device broke with prevailing mobile phone most physical hardware buttons, featuring only a few physical buttons and a touch screen.
