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HISTORY OF DATA

COMMUNICATIONS
BY GROUP 5
INTRODUCTION

The key technology of the information age is


communication. Data communication is a global area
of study. Though data communication may seem a
relatively new innovation, the history of data
connections dates to the early 19th century.
WHAT IS DATA
COMMUNICATION?
> is the process of transferring
digital information (usually in
binary form) between two or
more points.

> Exchange of digital information


between two digital devices
1837
> Samuel F.B. Morse
> invented the telegraph
> with the telegraph, dots and
dashes
transmitted across a wire through
electromechanical induction.
1837
> According to the History of Computing,
data communication has its earliest roots
in telegraph system. An account of data
communication history posted by
telecommunicatios experts at General
Telecom, LLC also points to a telegraph
patent inventor Charles Wheatstone filed
that same year
1843
> Alexander Bain patented a
Printing Telegraph service used by
the Great Western Railway, an
endorsement that allowed the
service to expand across the
nation
1876
> Improving on the telegraph,
according to the History of
Computing, Alexander Graham Bell
introduced the Telephone
1895
> The development of early
telecommunications The Radio is
invention by Guglielmo Marconi,
and it is make great developments
in communication technology
1947
> The Transistor introduced by Bell
Labs
> This is a device that found
integration in myriad subsequent
electronic products
1958
> Technologies are expanded by
U.S. government with its launch of a
communications-oriented satellite,
and the first facsimile transmission
over standard telephone lines
occured 4 years later.
1962
> After the first Fax Transmission,
the modulation of data into sound
for transmission across the
telephone lines spread in popularity
for years.
1969
> The development of Internet
Protocol (IP) marked a
significant milestone in data
communication history
1991
> More than 1 million servers had
come online using Internet
Protocol technology, and the
World Wide Web emerged as the
primary component of the
Internet by the mid-1990s
THANK YOU!

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