From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Telephone Outline

The True Inventor of the Telephone?
(October 27, 1861)

Bell Invents and Patents the Telephone
(March 10, 1876)

The First Regular Telephone Line
(1877)

The First Telephone Switchboard
(1877)

Invention of the Microphone
(March 4, 1877)

The Loose-Contact Carbon Microphone
(1878)

The First Regular Telephone Exchange
(January 1878)

The First Telephone Directory
(November 1878)

The First Wireless Telephone Communication
(April 1, 1880)

AT&T
(March 3, 1885)

Long-Distance Telephone Extends from NY to Chicago
(1892)

About 240,000 Telephones
(1895)

The First Transcontinental Telephone Call
(January 25, 1915)

The Creation of Bell Labs
(1925)

The First Transatlantic Telephone Cable
(September 25, 1956)

Technical Basis for the Development of Phreaking
(November 1960)

"Dial F for Frankenstein"
(1961)

The First Geosynchronous Communications Satellite
(July 26, 1963)

Touch-Tone
(November 1963)

First Use of the Term "Hacker" in the Context of Computing
(November 20, 1963)

The Viterbi Algorithm
(1967)

Invention of the "Smart Card"
(1968)

Phreaker Underground Telephone System Culture
(1971)

An Antitrust Suit to Break up AT&T
(November 20, 1974)

Prototype Cellular Telephone System
(1977)

Making Small Portable Digital Telephones Possible
(1979)

The Basis for Cellular Telephone Technology
(May 1, 1979)

Digital Cellular Telephone Technology
(1980)

CNN
(June 1, 1980)

The First Cellular Telephone Service in the United Sates
(December 16, 1982)

The First Commercial Analog Cellular Telephone Service
(October 13, 1983)

2600: The Hacker Quarterly
(1984)

Breakup of AT&T
(January 1, 1984)

GSM is Developed
(1987)

Junk Faxes are Outlawed
(1991)

The First GSM Cellular Phone Call
(March 27, 1991)

2G Cellular Telecom
(July 1, 1991)

The First SMS Text Message
(December 3, 1992)

The First Tablet Computer with Wireless Connectivity
(April 1993)

The First Commercial Website with the First Online Advertising
(May 1993)

The First Access to the Mobile Web
(1996)

WAP
(June 1997)

The First Full Internet Service on Cell Phones
(1999)

The First 3G Cellular Network
(October 1, 2001)

The First Cell Phone Novel
(2003)

Skype Founded
(August 2003)

From Gutenberg to the Internet
(2005)

The Google Video Store Opens
(January 6, 2006)

Twitter: "What Are You Doing?"
(October 2006)

The iPhone
(June 29, 2007)

Drama in the Context of a Telephone Exchange (1928)
(2008)

The First Android-Powered Phone
(September 23, 2008)

2.5 Trillion Text Messages
(December 26, 2008)

The First Magazine Cover Created as iPhone Art
(June 1, 2009)

More than 2 Billion Downloads
(November 4, 2009)

3 Billion iPhone and iPod Apps Have Been Downloaded
(January 5, 2010)

After the Earthquake in Haiti, Donating by SMS Text
(January 13, 2010)

World Texting Competition Won by Koreans
(January 14, 2010)

Cell Phones Are Now Used More for Data than Speech
(May 13, 2010)

Data on Mobile Networks is Doubling Each Year
(August 1, 2010)