Tics

ICT DURING HISTORY

By ainhoagirl
  • 3500 BCE

    INVENTION OF WRITING

    INVENTION OF WRITING
    The very first writings were found in Mesopotamia 5,500 years ago. Cuneiform writing was characterised by being a system of pictograms, stemming from an earlier system of shaped tokens used for accounting
  • 105

    INVENTION OF PAPER

    INVENTION OF PAPER
    Paper was invented in China by Cai Lun, the conseulor of the emperor.
    This is a very important event because the means of transmission changed.
  • 1451

    INVENTION OF THE PRINTER (Imprenta)

    INVENTION OF THE PRINTER (Imprenta)
    Until this year, all written texts were copied through hand copying. Johannes Gutenberg invented the printer designing wood formes for each letter of the alphabet and even though his business failed the first times, it slowly became more and more popular.

  • THE TYPEWRITER (Máquina de escribir)

    THE TYPEWRITER (Máquina de escribir)
    The typewriter was invented before computers and were used by common people. Their origin isn't very clear because it has evolutioned from other similar devices set in the XVII century. They were finally patented in between 1829 and 1870. There isn't an only creator because many people contributed to its developement.

  • INVENTION OF THE TELEGRAPH

    INVENTION OF THE TELEGRAPH
    Samuel Morse created the telegraph, a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.

  • INVENTION OF THE TELEPHONE

    INVENTION OF THE TELEPHONE
    Antonio Meucci invented the telephone. For a long time people have believed that his real creator was Alexander Graham Bell, but he wasn't: he just got the patent before Antonio could because he didn't have enough money.

  • THE FIRST TELEPHONE CALL

    THE FIRST TELEPHONE CALL
    Graham Bell did the first telephone call to his assistant Thomas A. Watson.

  • FIRST RADIO TRANSMISSION

    FIRST RADIO TRANSMISSION
    The first radio transmission ever happened in 1906 Christmas Eve and was broadcasted from Massachussets, but it wasn't until 1920 that the first aimed-at-entertainment radio transmission started.

  • FIRST TV EMISSIONS

    FIRST TV EMISSIONS
    The BBC and the CBS started to broadcast the first public transmissions.

  • COLOSSUS

    COLOSSUS
    Alan Turing built the Colossus, a giant computer that permited to descipher in a few seconds the secret messages from the Nazis in the Second World War

  • FIRST COMERCIAL COMPUTER

    FIRST COMERCIAL COMPUTER
    The first comercial computer is set up and was bought by the United States Census Bureau

  • THE TELEPHONE CABLE

    THE TELEPHONE CABLE
    The first transatlantic telephone cable started to get installed.

  • FIRST SATELLITE LAUNCHED INTO SPACE

    FIRST SATELLITE LAUNCHED INTO SPACE
    This may look like it's not related to the ICTs, but I think it really does: before satellites, TV signals didn't go very far. So they would quickly trail off into space instead of following Earth's curve. Sometimes mountains or buildings would block them. Setting up telephone wires over long distances or underwater is difficult and costs a lot. With satellites, TV signals and phone calls are sent upward to a satellite. Then, the satellite can send them back down to different locations on Earth.

  • INVENTION OF THE INTERNET

    INVENTION OF THE INTERNET
    During the Cold War, the United States created an exclusively military network, with the aim that, in the hypothetical case of a Russian attack, military information could be accessed from any point from the country. This network was created in 1969 and was called ARPANET.

  • FIRST EMAIL

    FIRST EMAIL
    Ray Tomlinson sent the first email ever to himself this year. The message was recieved in another computer in the same room in which there was the same computer that he used to send it.

  • THE GPS

    THE GPS
    In 1973 the GPS was set by Ivan A. Getting and Roger L. Easton. The GPS (Global Positioning System) is a "constellation" of approximately 30 well-spaced satellites that orbit the Earth and make it possible for people with ground receivers to pinpoint their geographic location.

  • APPEARANCE OF GOOGLE

    APPEARANCE OF GOOGLE
    At first, its two creators, Sergey and Larry, made it as a work for college. Nowadays it's one of the most influential companies in the world.

  • ARRIVAL OF FACEBOOK

    ARRIVAL OF FACEBOOK
    Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zukerberg and his schoolmates from the University of Harvard. Even though it isn't the first social network, it ment a before and an after in the world of the ICTs by becoming one of the biggest companies in the world and one of the most used social networks. It has bought some of the most important companies as WhatsApp or Instagram.