History of Data

Communication
Arzath Areeff

INTRODUCTION
The key technology of the information age is communication. Data communications 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.
Through an array of technological developments that enjoyed commercial, government and military
contributions, data communication evolved from simple wired connections to a robust global exchange
of information.
What is Data Communications?
Exchange of digital information between two digital devices is data communication

HISTORY TIMELINE OF DATA COMMUNICATION

1837

Alexander Bain patented a Printing Telegraph

Telegraph service used by the Great Western
Railway, an endorsement that allowed the
service to expand across the nation

1843

1876

The development of early

telecommunications The Radio is invention by
Guglielmo Marconi, and it is make great
developments in communication technology.

Samuel Morse exhibited a working Telegraph

System
According to the History of Computing, data
communication has its earliest roots in
telegraph system. An account of data
communication history posted by
telecommunications experts at General
Telecom, LLC also points to a telegraph patent
that inventor Charles Wheatstone filed that
same year

1895

Improving on the telegraph, according to the

History of Computing, Alexander Graham Bell
introduced the Telephone

1947

These technologies are expanded by U.S.

government with its launch of a
communications-oriented satellite, and the
first facsimile transmission over standard
telephone lines occurred four years later

1958

1962

According to the History of Computing, the

development of Internet Protocol (IP) marked
a significant milestone in data communication
history. Within the following decades, early
packet communication technologies like
Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM), Frame
Relay and Integrated Services Digital Network
(ISDN) emerged as a viable solution for
commercial and high-end residential data
needs

The Transistor introduced by Bell Labs

This is a device that found integration in
myriad subsequent electronic products.

After the first Fax Transmission, the

modulation of data into sound for
transmission across telephone lines spread in
popularity for several years. Though
modulation/demodulation, or modem,
technology continued to carry slower data
traffic for the remainder of the 20th century

1969

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

Wireless

Like wire data communication technology at the same time the wireless communication
technology also developed,
It is developed rapidly during World War I
By 1921, the first commercial radio voices broadcast in the form of modulated radio waves,
In 1974, the Federal Communication Commission (FCC) began allocating wireless spectrums for
wireless communication, and wireless companies began integrating radio packet data as early as
1984.
This technology evolved into the various digital wireless packet data protocols used into the 21st
century.

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