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A popular choice of transmitting signals over a long distance in Australia was the bull-roarer. Apparently, this device was first used by Watamba, the elusive and infamous ancestor of Jajah Watamba, and his tribe. These days the bull-roarer is a highly irritating tool found in souvenir shops and stereotypical films on Australian culture. |
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1200 BC - Fire signals were used to send information over an obviously limited distance. Didn't work well for people with bad eyes. |
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490 BC - The fittest of them all was sent to spread the word from Marathon to Athens. He wasn't fit enough though. |
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During the reign of the Roman Empire smoke signals were used to communicate. Anti-smoking laws eventually killed that method off. |
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1835 - Samuel Morse developed the possibility of transmitting the dot 'n' the dash. He called it "Sam Signal" but society changed it to Morse. It stuck. Only 19 years later the first telegraph line made it to Australia (Melbourne to Williamstown). |
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In the 1860s - The pony express went through a lot of resources before the animal lobby put an end to it. Native Americans used smoke signals, but... see above. |
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1876 - Alex Bell registered his telephone and started an era of annoying ringtones. And this time Australia was not that far behind, only three years later the first Aussie telephone service was launched. First coin-operated phones were installed in 1890 and vandalized fifteen minutes later. |
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1960s - ARPANet was developed by the US-military (who else) to connect their computers, and share information and music files. Next up was the Ethernet in 1974, before the World Wide Web platform emerged and the Internet spun a world-wide web. (So everything is named appropriately.) |
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1990s - Telecommunication becomes completely mobile. People who never go anywhere can use their mobile devices to talk, write and share information. It still costs lots though. |
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2005 - Telecommunication reached a simple global standard with the JAJAH Webphone. For people who stay put and those who do get around. The history of telecommunication has another milestone. |
