ICT timeline

  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    Was invented by William Austin Burt.
    Even in the hands of its inventor, this machine was slower than manual writing. The typewriter is a mechanical, electromechanical, or electronic device, with a set of keys that, when are pressed, print characters in a document, usually paper.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    The 1st telegraph was invented by David Alter in 1836. It was a visual system that depended on line communication vsion. The telegraph is a system for transmitting messages from a distance, especially creating signals by making an electrical connection.
  • Morse Code

    Morse Code
    The Morse Code was invented by Samuel Morse. From his surname comes the name of this code. Is a system representation of numbers and letters.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    The telephone was discovered by Antonio Meucci. The telephone is a telecommunication device designed to transmit conversations by means of electrical signals.
  • Radio

    Radio
    Guillermo Marconi was the inventor of the radio, was an italian engineer. The early history of radio is the history of technology that produces and uses radio instruments that use radio waves. Within the timeline of radio, many people put theory and inventions and it becames the radio.
  • TV

    TV
    The inventor of the TV was John Logie Baird. It is January 26 of this year when John Logie Baird managed to retransmit for the first time images in his project of television set in which he was working in his laboratory in London. In 1937, regular electronic TV broadcasts began in France and the United Kingdom. This led to a rapid development of the television industry and a rapid increase in viewers, although the televisions were small screen and very expensive.
  • Computer

    Computer
    Honrad Zuse created the 1st computer of the history calling it Z1. It was not until 1942 that come companies saw possible benefits and opportunities to computers. The first company was called ABC Computers belonging to John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry.
  • Launch of the 1st rocket into space

    Launch of the 1st rocket into space
    In July 1950 started spaceflight with the launch of the first rocket from Cape Canaveral, Florida, USA. And from this date the scientifics starts investigating the space, with satellites etc.
  • Internet

    Internet
    Was created by some people, like Robert Taylor. Was called Arpanet. The Internet protocol suite was developed by Robert E. Kahn and Vint Cerf in the 1970s and became the standard networking protocol on the Arpanet.
  • Satellites Communications

    Satellites Communications
    In 1962, the world's first active communications satellite, Telstar 1, was launched.This satellite was built by Telesat's predecessors and Bell Laboratories. Sended out the world with live images of sports, entertainment and news.its technology of receiving radio signals from the ground, and then amplifying and retransmitting them over a large portion of the earth's Surface. During the 1960s and 1970s, advances in satellite performance came quickly and a global industry began to develop.
  • Unmanned aerial vehicles

    Unmanned aerial vehicles
    The use of unmanned aerial vehicles began during the Vietnam war. And then they became an essential part of modern uses, such as the recognition of land.
  • Microprocessors (CPU)

    Microprocessors (CPU)
    The CPU (Central Processing Units) are one of the most essential parts of the most important invention of recent years such as the computer. They were invented by Marcian Edward.
  • Email

    Email
    Raymond Samuel "Ray" Tomlinson, was an American computer programmer, that implemented in 1971 the first ARPANET email system. The email is a tool for sending and receiving of all types of information among people, enterprises and networks..
  • Mobile phone

    Mobile phone
    Martin Cooper, an American engineer, he is a pioneer and visionary in the wireless communications industry at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. this was thw first call. It was a revolution. It lasted 30 minutes of conversation, and although now it seems and little useful, by then it was quite an innovation to be able to communicate from anywhere and without wires.
  • Laptop

    Laptop
    William Moggridge, who worked for GRID Systems Corporation, designed the laptop. That showed its great benefits for the work of scientists, soldiers, entrepreneurs, and other profesional. And the advantage of being able to carry with them their computer with all information they needed from one place to another.
  • Smartphone

    Smartphone
    For many the first smartphone of the story was the IBM Simon Personal Comunicator, whose prototype appeared in 1992 and whose sale began in 1994. Was also the first smatphone with smooth screen. And you could send emails with it.
  • SMS

    SMS
    The SMS (Short Messaging Service) was born the United Kingdom when the programmer Neil Papworth sent a message from his computer to a friend, employee of Vodafone, to congratulate him on Christmas. The operator discovered then a useful and fun system to communicate within your own company. And seven years later the messages starts sending by the people through their smartphones appart from only doing phone calls.
  • Google

    Google
    Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford.
  • Skype

    Skype
    Skype was founded by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark. Skype is software that allows everyone to communicate. Millions of people and businesses already use Skype to make calls and video calls.
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    Twitter was invented by Jack Dorsey, an undergraduate student at New York University, that introduced the idea of an individual using an SMS service to communicate with a small group.
  • WhatsApp

    WhatsApp
    WhatsApp was founded in 2009 by Brian Acton and Jan Koum, both former employees of Yahoo too. Koum named the app "WhatsApp" to sound like "what's up".
  • Smartwatches

    Smartwatches
    Apple released their Apple Watch Series 3 model which offers built in LTE cellular connectivity allowing phone calls, messaging and data without relying on a nearby smartphone connection.