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Timeline of communication technology Prior to 20th 

30,000 BC – In ice-age Europe, people mark ivory, bone, and stone with patterns to keep track of time, using a lunar calendar.[1]

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14,000 BC – In what is now Mezhirich, Ukraine, the first known artifact with a map on it is made using bone.[1]

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Prior to 3500BC – Communication was carried out through paintings of indigenous tribes. 3500s BC – The Sumerians develop cuneiform writing and the Egyptians develop hieroglyphic writing. 16th century BC – The Phoenicians develop an alphabet. AD 26–37 – Roman Emperor Tiberius rules the empire from island of Capri by signaling messages with metal mirrors to reflect the sun. 105 – Tsai Lun invents paper. 7th century – Hindu-Malayan empires write legal documents on copper plate scrolls, and write other documents on more perishable media.

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751 – Paper is introduced to the Muslim world after the Battle of Talas.

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1250 – The quill is used for writing.[1]

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1305 – The Chinese develop wooden block movable type printing.

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1450 – Johannes Gutenberg finishes a printing press with metal movable type.

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1520 – Ships on Ferdinand Magellan's voyage signal to each other by firing cannon and raising flags.

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1792 – Claude Chappe establishes the first long-distance semaphore telegraph line.

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1831 – Joseph Henry proposes and builds an electric telegraph.

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1835 – Samuel Morse develops the Morse code.

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1843 – Samuel Morse builds the first long distance electric telegraph line.

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1844 – Charles Fenerty produces paper from a wood pulp, eliminating rag paper which was in limited supply.

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1849 – Associated Press organizes Nova Scotia pony express to carry latest European news for New York newspapers.

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1876 – Alexander Graham Bell and Thomas A. Watson exhibit an electric telephone in Boston.

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1877 – Thomas Edison patents the phonograph.

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1889 – Almon Strowger patents the direct dial telephone.

20th century 

1901 – Guglielmo Marconi transmits radio signals from Cornwall to Newfoundland.

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1920 – Radio station KDKA based in Pittsburgh began the first broadcast.

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1925 – John Logie Baird transmits the first television signal.

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1942 – Hedy Lamarr and George Antheil invent frequency hopping spread spectrum communication technique.

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1947 – Douglas H. Ring and W. Rae Young of Bell Labs propose a cell-based approach which led to "cellular phones."

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1947 – Full-scale commercial television is first broadcast. 1949 – Claude Elwood Shannon, the "father of information theory", mathematically proves the Nyquist–Shannon sampling theorem.

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1958 – Chester Carlson presents the first photocopier suitable for office use. 1963 – First geosynchronous communications satellite is launched, 17 years after Arthur C. Clarke's article.

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1965 - First email sent (at MIT).[2] 1966 – Charles Kao realizes that silica-based optical waveguides offer a practical way to transmit light via total internal reflection.

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1969 – The first hosts of ARPANET, Internet's ancestor, are connected.[3]

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1971 

Erna Schneider Hoover invent a computerized switching system for telephone traffic.

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8-inch floppy disk removable storage medium for computers is introduced. [4]

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1975 - "First list servers are introduced."[4]

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1976 – The personal computer (PC) market is born.

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1977 – Donald Knuth begins work on TeX.

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1981 

Hayes Smart modem introduced.[5]

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Nordic Mobile Telephone, the world´s first automatic mobile phone is put into operation

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1983 - Microsoft Word software is launched.[6]

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1989 

Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau build the prototype system which became the World Wide Web at CERN.

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WordPerfect 5.1 word processing software released.[5] 1991

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Anders Olsson transmits solitary waves through an optical fiber with a data rate of 32 billion bits per second.

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GSM is put into operation 1992

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Neil Papworth sends the first SMS (or text message).

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Internet2 organization is created.

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IBM ThinkPad 700C laptop computer created. It was lightweight compared to its predecessors.[5]

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1993 - Mosaic graphical web browser is launched.[7]

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1994 – Internet radio broadcasting is born.

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1996 - Motorola StarTAC mobile phone introduced. It was significantly smaller than previous cellphones.[5]

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1999 – 45% of Australians have a mobile phone.

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1998 - Lotus Notes software is launched.[7]

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1999 

Sirius satellite radio is introduced.

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Napster peer-to-peer file sharing is launched.[5]

21st century 

2001 – First digital cinema transmission by satellite in Europe of a feature film by Bernard Pauchon and Philippe Binant.

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2003 – MySpace is launched.

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2004 – What would become the largest social networking site in the world, Facebook is launched.

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2005 – YouTube, the video sharing site, is launched.

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2006 – Twitter, microblogging

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June 7, 2010, in conjunction with the iPhone 4, FaceTime is launched as an iPhone constituent.