Brief History



Aloys Okello

In the 1870’s, Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham both created the telephone. This was a massive technological change that would shape our world today. Before the creation of this invention people were communicating via telegraph. The dot-and-dash Morse code system was a very successful way of communicating however changes was needed, people needed to talk to people. This is where the telephone began.

 Ever since that bright moment, we have been communicating via telephone, however the invention has changed dramatically still since then. In the late 1990’s the mobile phone was created, this enabled people to use the telephone on the go and has been an even greater success. Since the early 1930’s Computer technology had started its journey in the new digital world and began to rapidly evolve along with it. In 1981 a company called Apollo Computer revealed its first computer work station called the DN100. This was one of the first computer work stations. Nothing compared to computers today.

 Over the years computers evolved rapidly, getting bigger and more powerful, faster and more reliable. Nowadays we have desktop computers and laptops, all of which vary from size, speed. Televisions are also a fast moving digital change. They have gone from black and white to color in the space of a decade and nowadays they are in HD and more recently 3D. When television were first around not everyone had them, they were expensive and very much like gold dust, now nearly every home has at least one television, it has become a necessity in this digital world, we rely on it. It’s entertainment, educational, relaxing, informing and reliable. Over the years we have invented many technical devices, mobile technology, television and computer technology being the most important and effective to our lifestyle.. We have gone from just phoning people to communicate to texting, messaging such as Facebook and twitter, Imessage and Blackberry. Messenger and the more recently Whatsapp, which enables you to Imessage and Blackberry Message people. What is going to come next? What will be the next evolution phase? What else is going to happen in our forever changing digital world?



Refrences:

http://inventors.about.com/od/bstartinventors/a/telephone.htm

http://www.computerhistory.org/timeline/?year=1981<span lang="EN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"TimesNewRoman","serif"; mso-ansi-language:EN">

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