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)
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