tel e com mu ni ca tions⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅ ⋅–noun 1.Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb ) the transmission of information, as words, sounds, or images, usually over great distances, in the form of electromagnetic signals, as by telegraph, telephone, radio, or television.2.Sometimes, telecommunication. (used with a singular verb ) the science and technology of such communication.3.telecommunication, a message so transmitted.–adjective 4.of or pertaining to telecommunications.

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From Claude E. Shannon, The Mathematical Theory of Communication, 1949

See communication speed over time

http://www.kantl.be/ctb/vanhoutte/teach/slides/hcl0502.htm

Memex, Vannever Bush, 1945

Leonard Kleinrock, MIT: "Information Flow in Large Communication Nets“, 1961

On Distributed Communication Networks, Paul Baran, 1964

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/historical.html

http://www.darpa.mil/news_images/tigr2.html

Log entry for first message sent via the ARPANETOctober 29, 1969

A Protocol for Packet Network Intercommunication, Vinto G. Cerf and Robert E. Kahn 1974http://www.cs.princeton.edu/courses/archive/fall06/cos561/papers/cerf74.pdf

http://www.teach-ict.com/technology_explained/packet_switching/packet_switching.html

http://www.wtcs.org/snmp4tpc/literature.htm

Transfer Control Protocol breaks down and reassembles the packets

Internet Protocol ensures packets are sent to the right destination

ARPANET Completion Report, 1978 http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/historical.html

http://personalpages.manchester.ac.uk/staff/m.dodge/cybergeography//atlas/historical.html

http://opte.org/ 2003

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Tim_Berners-Lee_April_2009.jpg

http://www.w3.org/History/1989/proposal.html

I just had to take the the hypertext idea and connect it to the Transmission Control Protocol and the domain name system ideas and – tada! The World Wide Web. (May, 2008)

http://www.xanadu.com/ Ted Nelson, 1960

http://info.cern.ch/hypertext/WWW/TheProject.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_browser

Mosaic Browser, National Center For Supercomputing Applications, 1993