Coffee Table Book - Communication History Timeline

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COMMUNICATION TIMELINE HISTORY

COMMUNICATION

TIMELINE HISTORY

AKHIL ANAND

INTRODUCTION

The history of communication itself can be traced back to the origin of language around 100,000 BC.

The use of technology in communication can be traced back to the first use of symbols around 30,000 BC. must be considered. Symbols used include cave paintings, petroglyphs, pictographs, and ideograms. The writing was a major innovation, as was printing technology and, more recently, telecommunications and the Internet.

This Coffee table book is about time travel in communication evolution.

Greek optical telegraph

Rock paintings from the Cave of Beasts (Gilf Kebir, Libyan Desert)

1050 BC

Phoenician script (First alphabets formed in Phoenician civilization)

2000 BC

Pigeon post is the use of homing pigeons to carry messages

Cuniform and Hieroglyphs

30,000 BC
450 BC
3300 BC

Light signaling

105 AD

The smoke signal is one of the oldest forms of long distance BC
60
10

Chinese print whole page from wood blocks

The quill is used for writing

Johannes Gutenberg invents a printing press with metal movable type.

Boston begins to print advertisements.

800 AD 1250 1440 1700
Nicéphore Niépce, Inventor of photography First photograph in the history : View from the Window at Le Gras color photo Ribbon digital
First
:
First
1826 Photography

Key-type Morse telegraph transmitter Key-type Morse telegraph transmitter.

1876

The first telephone patent was granted to Alexander Graham Bell

Roundhay Garden Scene(Silent Movie) which has a running time of just over two seconds, was filmed in 1888.

Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call in his Boston laboratory, summoning his assistant from the next room.After this call, new revolution started.

1844
1888

1925

1922

First Radio broadcasts

1927

First sound movie “The Jazz Singer”

John Logie Baird invented Television This image is the first recorded picture taken from a TV screen The original television model

History of Computer BC

Abacus automatic developed Babbage

Herman Hollerith designs a punchcard system to help calculate

UNIVAC, the first commercially produced digital computer, is

ENIAC was the first programmable, electronic,

2500 BC-1951 2500
1823 1890 1951 1946
is the calculating tool that was in use in Europe, China and Russia. First
computing engines
by Charles
dedicated.
general-purpose digital

1962

1969

1973

1976

The first hosts of ARPANET, Internet’s ancestor,
First active orbiting communications satellite First Mobile phone, Motorola DynaTAC Martin Cooper, Inventor of the first
First personal computer Altair 8800

Nippon Telegraph and Telephone (NTT) launched the world’s first cellular network.

1982

The compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings.

1980

Portable video recorders

1979

1984

The first network stereo telecast was NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson on July 26, 1984

1983

Microsoft Word software is launched.

1989 1992 1995

Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide AOL introduces hourly charges for Internet

First Web Page Created “info.cern.ch”

1991

Anatomy of Internet

Deep Web Web

Surface Web

World Wide Web Internet accessible through a browser portion of the World Wide Web that is readily available to the general public and searchable with standard web search engines. The Deep Web, Invisible Web, or Hidden Web is part of the World Wide Web, and its content is not indexed by standard web search engines. The dark web is the World Wide Web content that exists on darknets: the require specific or to
Internet
overlay networks that use
Internet but
software, configurations,
authorization
access.
Dark

Napster peer-to-peer file sharing is launched Peer-to-peer file sharing is the distribution and sharing of digital media using peer-to-peer (P2P) networking technology.

Six Degrees is widely considered to be the very first social networking site.

1997 2003 2002 1999

Founded by Andrew Weinreich

Internet Population surpasses

Skype software developed

500M

Facebook created

2004 2004

Facebook created

2005

YouTube, the video sharing site, is launched.

2007

Iphone launched.

2009 2010 WhatsApp launched.

Instagram founded.

2017

first quantum encrypted international call

The number of mobile connections surpasses the global population.

Global Internet bandwidth became

2014 2019
466Tbps.
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