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Events relating to communication
Marconi equips two ships to send radio reports to New York on the progress of the yachts racing for the America's Cup
Guglielmo Marconi transmits a radio message in Morse code 2100 miles, from Poldhu in Cornwall to St John's in Newfoundland
US inventor Lee De Forest patents the Audion, a sensitive vacuum-tube radio receiver
Lee De Forest broadcasts Enrico Caruso live from the Metropolitan Opera House in New York, but with mixed success owing to the poor quality
Telegraph messages lead to the arrest of Dr Crippen and his mistress Ethel Le Neve in mid-Atlantic
The US navy begins transmitting by radio a regular time signal, much used by the nation's watchmakers and menders.
Alexander Graham Bell again summons his assistant Thomas Watson (as in 1876), but this time he is in New York and Watson in San Francisco
Radiotelephone messages are transmitted from Arlington in Virginia to the Eiffel Tower in Paris
John Logie Baird gives the world's first demonstration of television to a group assembled in his attic rooms in London
The British Broadcasting Corporation uses Logie Baird's system for its first trial TV broadcasts
The first communications satellite, Early Bird, is launched from Cape Carnaveral
Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras preside over simultaneous ceremonies, in Rome and Istanbul, revoking the mutual excommunications of 1054
Steve Wozniak and Steve Jobs design and market a personal computer, calling it the Apple
The US system MIDI (Musical Instrument Digital Interface) becomes the industry standard for electronic communication in music
At CERN, in Geneva, Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau build ENQUIRE, a first step towards the future World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, working at CERN in Geneva, publishes the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web
Tim Berners-Lee, using CERN computers, puts online the first website at http://info.cern.ch
Larry Page and Sergey Brin, both Ph.D. students at Stanford University, register the domain name google.com
Wikipedia, the 'Free Encyclopedia', is put online by Jimmy Wales as an empty shell which members of the public are invited to fill with content
Google pays $1.65 billion for the website YouTube, launched less than two years previously
Apple's iPhone goes on sale in the USA and 270,000 are sold in the first thirty hours
The website Wikileaks publlishes more than 90,000 classified internal reports about US involvement in Afghanistan since 2004
Wikileaks publishes another batch of US government documents, this time diplomatic cables of which about 100,000 are maked 'secret' or 'confidential'
