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Totally wired With the first
Sending long-distance messages was telegraph, incoming
a slow process before the arrival in messages were How it changed
television, and the
1837 of an electrical communication spelled out With telephones,
system called the TELEGRAPH. on a grid. Internet, information now
Developed by English inventors travels round the world
the world
William Fothergill Cooke and almost as soon as
Charles Wheatstone, it sent events happen.
electric messages via a wire. In
the 1870s, the telephone
did the same for the voice. TV addicts
Radio, invented by Italian
Guglielmo Marconi in 1895,
allowed sound to be wirelessly
Making In 1926, the first TELEVISION
broadcast over long distances.

broadcast added pictures to
connections sound. By the 1950s, people took
it for granted that entertainment,
news, and sports events could be
How superfast global COMMUNICATIONS beamed into their homes.
have changed everything

By the way...
My World Wide Web
whizzes text, sound,
and video messages to
wherever you want,
any time.

Global linkup
In the 1960s, US scientists
discovered how to share
information by linking
millions of computers into a
NETWORK they called the
Internet. In 1990, English
scientist Tim Berners-Lee
(left) invented the World Wide
Web, which allows information
to be accessed from any computer
on the Internet via websites.
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