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2010 BCE
2,500,000 A.C.
There are studies and research works that make our knowledge available for their own knowledge, where they state that the first civilizations communicated through sounds and signs to be able to communicate with other human beings, however, their topics with the greatest impact was "inventing" -
300,000 A.C.
300.00 B.C. civilizations made cave paintings as a means of communication, each drawing or painting was related to some fact or action that at some point they performed, in turn, they can represent the sounds that the first humans generated in those points -
5,000 A.C.
A pictogram is an iconic sign, that is, it figuratively represents a real object, or a meaning. The first pictogram systems were precursors or antecedents of the writing systems proper -
1,300 A.C
Smoke Signals White smoke was synonymous with victory, happiness and peace. While the color black foreshadowed a terrible revelation. Similarly, the number of signs was also related to a specific motive. For example, three murmurs in a row translated as an alarm signal that required some help -
4,000 A.C.
An important advance in visual communication in antiquity was the development of papyrus, a kind of paper used to write manuscripts. -
2000 A.C.
The first known formal alphabet emerged in Egypt in 2000 BC. It was developed from the alphabetic principles of the Egyptian hieroglyphs of Sinai. The Greek and Latin alphabets were inspired by it. -
776 A.C.
The homing pigeon is a bird with a great ability to orient itself, which is why since ancient times it has been used as a means of communication, during wars, in rural areas and in places that are difficult to access. -
550 A.C.
First Postal Service: During the Persian Empire of Cyrus II, there are records of what was a service of men on horseback who passed through stalls to collect writings destined for other cities. -
196 A.C.
The Rosetta Stone is a fragment of an ancient Egyptian granodiorite stele inscribed with a decree published in Memphis in 196 BC. The decree appears in three distinct scripts: the upper text in Egyptian hieroglyphics, the middle part in Demotic script, and the lower part in ancient Greek. -
868 D.C.
The First Printed Book The world's oldest printed book, the Diamond Sutra, a Buddhist text produced in China on May 11, 868 A.D. The book was discovered in the early 20th century by the orientalist Sir Marc Aurel Stein (1862-1943). -
1,440 D.C.
The invention of the printing press is attributed to the German, Johannes Gutenberg in the year 1440. Gutenberg is considered "the father of printing", after years of trying to compete for the title between the French, Italians, Dutch and Germans. -
57 A.C.
A heliograph is an apparatus for making signals by means of the reflection of the sun's rays on a movable mirror or by the interposition of a kind of blind, the opening or closing of which causes the sun's rays to reach and be reflected in the mirror or not -
1492 D.C
The conquistadors had to resort to different procedures to communicate with the Indians. The first thing the conquistadors did when they arrived in America was to take a few captive Indians and then use them as interpreters. -
1513-1522 D.C.
The Magellan and Elcano Expedition is a maritime expedition that took place in the 16th century under the command of Francisco Magellan and, after his death in the Philippines, Juan Sebastián Elcano. The expedition, funded by the Crown of Spain, is the first circumnavigation of the Earth in history. -
1600 D.C.
Sign language is the natural language of Deaf people. A language that, like any other, possesses and complies with all linguistic laws and is learned within the community of users to whom it facilitates the resolution of all the communicative and non-communicative needs of the human, social and cultural being. -
1605 D.C.
The first modern publication of regular periodicity appeared in the Belgian city of Antwerp in 1605: the Nieuwe Tijdinghen, an initiative of the printer Abraham Verhoeven. The idea was so popular that it was quickly imitated. -
1,835 D.C.
Morse code, also known as the Morse alphabet, is a system of representing letters and numbers using intermittently emitted signals. -
1850 D.C.
Braille is a tactile reading and writing system designed for blind and visually impaired people. It is also known as cecography. -
1876 D.C.
In 1876, on January 14, inventor Alexander Graham Bell patented the first telephone: a bulky device with a curved mouthpiece and a wired earpiece -
1937 D.C
The Z1 is considered to be the world's first programmable mechanical computer. It was designed by German engineer Konrad Zuse between 1935 and 1936, and was completed in 1938. It was a binary action calculator, reading instructions from punched tapes. Its functions were limited, but it represented a breakthrough for the time -
2018-act.
There are many means of communication such as telephone, newspaper, radio, etc., but most people today use the Internet. Nowadays fewer people use material sources, as technology has advanced a lot, therefore, 75% of the world's population uses the telephone and the Internet to get information or communicate. -
1989 D.C.
The beginnings of the Internet date back to the 1960s. In the midst of the Cold War, the United States created an exclusively military network, with the aim that, in the hypothetical case of a Russian attack, military information could be accessed from anywhere in the country. This network was created in 1969 and was called ARPANET. -
1996 D.C
When talking about smartphones, we run the risk of falling behind before we finish the article. Let's go back in time and talk about the IBM Simon, considered to be the first smartphone.