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Sunday, March 27, 2022
Basic timeline of communication and media
This post is a basic timeline of media and communication. There are 48 events listed below chronologically.
- Origin of speech (100,000 BC)
- First symbols (30,000 BC)
- First pictograms (9,000 BC)
- First writing systems (5th century BC)
- First alphabets (2000 BC)
- Tsai Lun invents paper (105 AD)
- First wooden block moveable type printing (1305)
- First printing press with metal movable type (1440)
- First newspapers (1566)
- Morse code is created (1836)
- First practical photography (1839)
- First long distance telegraph (1843)
- First commercial typewriter (1874)
- First telephone call (1876)
- First phonograph (1877)
- First successful commercial wireless telegraphy (1894)
- First radio news program (1920)
- First television signal (1925)
- First commercial television broadcast (1947)
- First photocopier (1958)
- First modern fax machine (1964)
- First email (1965)
- Internet is established (1969)
- First personal computers (1976)
- CNN is launched (1980)
- First mobile phone service (1981)
- Microsoft Word is launched (1983)
- World Wide Web is launched (1989)
- First text message (1992)
- Mosaic web browser is launched (1993)
- Netscape Navigator is launched (1994)
- Yahoo is founded (1994)
- First wiki (1994)
- First blogs (1994)
- GeoCities is founded (1994)
- Fox News is launched (1996)
- Google is founded (1998)
- First internet podcast (2000)
- Wikipedia is founded (2001)
- Skype is launched (2003)
- Myspace is founded (2003)
- Facebook is founded (2004)
- YouTube is founded (2005)
Reddit is founded (2005)
- Twitter is founded (2006)
- iPhone is launched (2007)
- Instagram is launched (2010)
- TikTok is launched (2016)
Sources:
Wikipedia: History of communication, History of radio, History of newspaper publishing, History of the Internet, Wiki, History of blogging, Myspace, Typewriter, History of photography, TikTok, Instagram, CNN, Fox News, History of podcasting, GeoCities