Template:Timeline of telecommunications

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[edit] Timeline of telecommunications

[edit] Text editing and storage

• 3000 BC: papyrus
• 59 BC: first newspaper, Acta Diurna ordered by Julius Caesar.
• 100 AD: paper
• 1000 AD: pens, first Chinese printing presses (Pi Sheng)
• 1400 AD: first European printing presses (Gutenberg). See history of the book.
• 1500 AD: pencils
• 1800s: typewriter
• 1960s: computers and text editors (TECO, TJ-2)

[edit] Distance communication

Optical signals (or optical telegraph) - fires (beacons), smoke signals

• 2400 BC: couriers, first postal systems. See: Early postal systems
• 490 BC: heliograph
• 16th century: maritime flags
• 1790 AD: semaphore
• 19th century: Signal lamps

Audio signals

• 3000 BC: communication drums, horn
• 1838 AD: telegraph. See: Telegraph history.
• 1848 AD: telephone. See: Telephone history
• 1896 AD: radio. See: History of radio.

Optical and Audio signals:

• 1897 AD: computer. See: History of computing
• 1927 AD: television. See: History of television
• 1969 AD: computer networking
  • 1983 AD: Internet. See: History of Internet.