2000: The "Web Phone" combines a traditional telephone with an LCD touch-screen and a retractable keyboard to let customers surf the Internet, check e-mail, make phone calls and check voice mail from a single device 2000: The "Thin Phone" integrates wireless Internet access with local wireless phone service, allowing Internat customers ... Read More

1971: Ray Tomlinson sends the first email to himself via ARPANET 1973: First non-car mobile phone, the DynaTAC is unveiled to the public 1989: The first flip phone is released, targeting wealthy consumers at a price of $3,000 USD 1989: The World Wide Web is born, marking the beginning of the Internet as ... Read More

1955: The laying of the first trans-Atlantic telephone cable 1957: Field tests for the first pagers begin in Allentown and Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1958: Princess Phones are introduced, the first phone with a lighted dial, which became a part of American pop culture 1960: The first touch-tone telephones are test-marketed, which had 10 buttons, ... Read More

1915: The first “official” coast-to-coast call is made between A.G. Bell in New York to Thomas Watson in San Francisco 1927 Transatlantic telephone service inaugurated for commercial service (US to Britain), using radio telephony 1929: Herbert Hoover becomes the first president of the United States with a phone on his desk. Until ... Read More

1835: Joseph Henry invents first electric telegraph 1844: Using his new code, Samuel Morse sends the first telegraph message, “What hath God wrought?” between D.C. and Baltimore 1858: Construction of the first transatlantic telegraph cable completed 1876: Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone 1881: First Yellow Pages published 1887: First coin-operated telephone installed in the ... Read More