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First telegraph
Baron Schilling von Canstatt successfully demonstrates the first telegraph in history in his room. -
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The Pony Express Begins
From April 1860 to October 1861, the Pony Express carried a quick mail service through the Great Plains, the Rocky Mountains, and the High Sierra from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California. -
Demonstration of Telephone
Bell makes the first two-way long distance telephone call between Cambridge and Boston, Massachusetts, USA. -
Morse Code over Radio
Sir Oliver Lodge, a British scientist, used a "coherer" to show how to receive Morse code signals using radio waves. -
First Radio Audio Broadcast
Using a rotary spark-gap transmitter and an Alexanderson alternator, Reginald Fessenden broadcast the first sounds over radio from Brant Rock, Massachusetts. A transmission that featured Fessenden reading from the Bible and performing O Holy Night on the violin was heard by ships at sea. -
SOS becomes Internationally accepted
On November 3rd, 1906, an international conference approved S.O.S. as the radio telegraph distress call for ships at sea. With just three short dots. three long dashes, and another three short dots, S.O.S. was designed to grab attention. On July 1 1908 became effective. -
First Transcontinental Telephone Call
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 Live Television Image
In his lab, John Baird creates the first live television image with tone graduations (as opposed to silhouette or duotone images). To make William Taynton the first face on television, Baird forces the office boy in front of the camera. However, a pace of five pictures per second falls short of genuine motion. -
First Color Television
John Logie Baird demonstrates a color television system achieved by using a scanning disc with spirals of red, green and blue filters at the transmitting and receiving ends -
First Television Commercial
The world's first television commercial aired on July 1, 1941, The advertisement was for Bulova watches and was aired before the beginning of a baseball game in New York. The world's first ad was only 10 seconds long and cost the company a total of $9 (Rs 670). -
First Email
The first email is created and sent by Ray Thomlinson, a computer engineer working under ARPAnet. -
The Creation of the World Wide Web
Where the Web was born. 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 goes Public
Berners-Lee posted a short summary of the World Wide Web project on the alt.hypertext newsgroup. This date also marked the debut of the Web as a publicly available service on the Internet. -
First Text Message
At a company holiday party, British citizen Neil Papworth sent Vodafone director Richard Jarvis the first SMS, wishing him a Merry Christmas. Papworth used his work computer to send a short message to an Orbitel 901 phone. -
The Beginning of Yahoo!
Yahoo! Inc. was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 1, 1995. -
Launching of Wikipedia
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. -
Mark Zuckerberg launches Facebook.
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 goes Public
Google was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 4, 1998, and its initial public offering followed on August 19, 2004. -
Youtube Created
It was launched on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. It is owned by Google, and is the second most visited website, after Google Search. YouTube has more than 2.5 billion monthly users who collectively watch more than one billion hours of videos each day. -
The iPhone
The iPhone started shipping -
Bibliography
Mabee, C. (2022, May 9). Samuel F.B. Morse. Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Samuel-F-B-Morse
History.com Editors. (2021, April 16). Pony Express debuts. HISTORY. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/pony-express-debuts
Bell Demonstrates Telephone. (n.d.). American Academy of Arts & Sciences. https://www.amacad.org/news/bell-demonstrates-telephone
CBS News. (2019, November 3). Almanac: S.O.S. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/almanac-s-o-s/ -
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