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Information Technology Timeline

1455 – Gutenberg Printing Press
1650 – First Daily Newspaper –
Leipzig
1714 – First typewriter patent
1831 – First telegraph
1835 – Morse code
1843 – Morse’s long-distance
telegraph
1861 – The Pony Express
1867 – First successful typewriter
1876 -– Bell’s telephone
1877 – Edison’s phonograph
1889 – Direct dial telephone
1899 – Wireless telegraphy
1920 – First voice radio programs
1923 – First television
1944 – Harvard’s Mark I Computer put in to public service
1951 – First commercially-available computers
1969 – ARPANET – predecessor to internet, used by government to protect and improve flow of information.
1976 – Apple I home computer
1979 – First cell phone network – Japan
1981 – IBM PC first sold
– First Laptop Computer
1984 – Apple Macintosh released
1985 – Car phones become
widespread
1993 – First SMS (text) message
1994 – Government releases control of internet, WWW is born.
2001 – First “smartphone”
(Blackberry)
2002 – Myspace launched
2004 – Facebook launched
2006 – Twitter launched
2007 – Apple iPhone released