smartphones began to make up an increasingly large part of the mobile phone market

3G mobile phone systems

Nullsoft Streaming Video

podcasting

WorldCom went bankrupt

Voice over IP

Ultra Wideband

Digital terrestrial television

the Information Awareness Office

300,000,000 computers on the Internet

the U.S.-China spy plane incident

AOL purchased Time Warner Time Warner was created in 1990 by the merger of Time Inc. and Warner Communications

ASIMO is a humanoid robot

interactive voice response

Napster was the first peer-to-peer file sharing network

Big Brother

ADSL was introduced in many countries with downstream rates starting at 256 kbit/s and 8 Mbit/s as the current maximum transfer speed

Bluetooth is an industrial specification for wireless personal area networks

Iridium communications service

The Highwaymen Ken Auletta

the Digital Millennium Copyright Act

News of the Lewinsky scandal first broke on the Drudge Report website, which reported that Newsweek editors were sitting on a story by investigative reporter Michael Isikoff exposing the affair

Webby Awards

ICQ

Hotmail

the Apache HTTP Server became the most popular server on the net

the Palm Pilot PDA was released

Telecommunications Act

Dragon released discrete word dictation-level speech recognition software. It was the first time dictation speech recognition technology was available to consumers. IBM and Kurzweil followed a few months later. In 1997 Dragon introduced "Naturally Speaking", the first "continuous speech" dictation software available (meaning you no longer need to pause between words for the computer to understand what you're saying)

VeriSign is a company that operates a diverse array of network infrastructure, including two of the Internet's thirteen root nameservers

Deutsche Telekom AG

Kevin Mitnick was arrested by the FBI

the NSFNET Backbone Service, operating since 1987, was successfully transitioned to a new architecture, where traffic is exchanged at interconnection points called Network access points

E-mail spamming

America Online announced that it had reached 1 million subscribers

Justin Hall who began eleven years of personal blogging while a student at Swarthmore College, is generally recognized as one of the earliest bloggers. The term "weblog" was coined by Jorn Barger in December 1997

the World Wide Web Consortium creates standards that Web developers should try to conform to, in order to maximize the ability of others to access their Web sites

online editions of the major newspapers

the World Wide Web Wanderer was a perl based web crawler that was first deployed to measure the size of the World Wide Web. The Software was developed at MIT by Matthew Gray. Later in 1993, it was used to generate an index called the "Wandex", providing the first search engine on the web

Wired magazine

the High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program

SMS

the Internet Society is the parent corporation of the Internet Architecture Board and the Internet Engineering Task Force

Ipswitch released Ws_ftp

mobilcom AG

the SupraFax 14400 ran at the 14.4 kbit/s rate

Pretty Good Privacy

second generation mobile phone systems such as GSM, IS-136 ("TDMA"), iDEN and IS-95 ("CDMA") began to be introduced. The first digital cellular phone call was made in the United States in 1990, in 1991 the first GSM network opened in Europe

Big Brother Awards

GPS-based automotive navigation systems

the Hubble Space Telescope was put in space by pace NASA's Space Shuttle Discovery

the www as well as http, html and urls were invented by Tim Berners-Lee at Cern

ISDN

the first of 24 satellites that form the current GPS constellation (Block II) was placed into orbit. The 52nd GPS satellite since the beginning in 1978 was launched November 6, 2004 aboard a Delta II rocket

the first dial-up internet service provider was world.std.com

email clients

most dialup modems follow the Hayes Command Set it was originally developed for the Hayes Smartmodem 2400

Radio Data System

the File Transfer Protocol was first developed in 1971 for implementation on hosts at M.I.T. In 1985 ftp was defined by the RFC 959 documnet

the Domain Name System was introduced by Paul Mockapetris. Symbolics.com became the first registered commercial domain name

the cordless telephone

Racal Telecom

the TCP/IP protocol began to be used for ARPAnet and the Defense Data Network

emoticons

Telemarketing

bulletin board systems

the first cell phone network with automatic roaming was started in Saudi Arabia

the router

voicemail

telephone cards

first-generation wireless telephone technology

the first commercial cellular telephone network was installed in Tokyo by NTT

delivermail

UUCP stands for Unix to Unix Copy Protocol, and is a computer program and protocol allowing remote execution of commands and transfer of files, email and netnews between Unix computers not connected to the Internet proper. In 1979 Tom Truscott and Jim Ellis of Duke University created Usenet a distributed Internet discussion system that evolved from a general purpose UUCP network. Now widely recognized concepts and terms such as "FAQ" and "spam" were originated on the usenet

the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

fiber-optic communication systems

modern fax machines

cctv

modern mobile telephony is considered to have started when Motorola employee Martin Cooper placed a call to rival AT&T's Bell Labs while walking the streets of New York City talking on Motorola DynaTAC

the Watergate scandal

the use of the at sign was introduced by Ray Tomlinson. Email had started in 1965

Accuracy in Media

Menwith Hill

the ISBN system

country calling codes were defined by the ITU

infowars

Citizens' band radio

radar warning receivers

road-rule enforcement cameras

LORAN-C

answering machines

Teleprompter

flat rates

1-800 numbers

hearing aids

NSA

Cable television

Nineteen Eighty-Four

the 0G generation of mobile telephones

GEE

walkie-talkies

the War of the Worlds

the Federal Communications Commission

Telex

Hellschreiber

disinformation

Edward Bernays' Propaganda

the first long distance television transmission was over telephone lines from Washington, DC to New York City. The image shown was of then Commerce Secretary Herbert Hoover

Hill & Knowlton

the Model 12 was the first general purpose teletype

the Sedition Act

the telephone booth became common in industrialized countries in the

the American Messenger Company was renamed United Parcel Service in 1919

radar

Very high frequency

Shortwave

Longwave

Guglielmo Marconi transmitted first long distance communication using electromagnetic or radio waves

blue pages

yellow pages

white pages

Erfindung der Kathodenstrahlröhre Ferdinand Braun

Nikola Tesla made the first public demonstration of radio communication

Heinrich Hertz detects and produces radio waves for the first time. Radio waves are called Hertzian waves until renamed by Guglielmo Marconi, who calls them radiotelegraphy waves

AT&T

the megaphone

the first telephone exchange opened in New Haven, Connecticut

Emile Berliner invented the first microphone on but

the first useful microphone was invented by Alexander Graham Bell

Patentantrag für ein Telefon durch Alexander Graham Bell wenige Stunden vor Elisha Grays Antrag

Speakers' Corner

ticker tape machines

the International Telegraph Union

erster funktionsfähiger Fernsprecher Philipp Reis

the Pony Express

the first transatlantic telegraph cable between North America and Europe worked for only one month. It had been laid been laid by Cyrus Field who laid a new, more durable cable in 1866. The first direct transatlantic telephone cable was laid by Werner von Siemens in 1875

the British Post Office first encouraged people to install letter boxes to facilitate the delivery of mail

AP

Samuel Morse sent the telegraph message "What hath God wrought" from the Supreme Court room in Washington, D.C. to his assistant, Alfred Vail, in Baltimore, Maryland

the first commercial electrical telegraph was constructed by Sir Charles Wheatstone and Sir William Fothergill Cooke. It used the deflection of needles to represent messages and started operating over thirteen miles (twenty-one kilometres) of the Great Western Railway

Samuel Morse independently developed an electrical telegraph

the billboard

Agence Havas was founded as the first news agency in the world. Today it is known as Agence Française de Presse

adhesive postage stamps

Morse code

the semaphore

post boxes

the first printed newspaper was published

Franz von Taxis established the Reichspost

flyers

lighthouses

following the advice of Li Si, Qin Shi Huang ordered all philosophy books and history books from states other than Qin to be burned

drums

pigeon post

advertising

smoke signal