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Distance telecommunications
 Visual, auditory and ancillary methods (non-electrical):
 * Prehistoric: Fires, Beacons, Smoke signals, Communication drums, Horns
 * 6th century BCE: Mail
 * 5th century BCE: Pigeon post
 * 4th century BCE: Hydraulic semaphores
 * ca. 490 BCE: Heliographs (shield signals)
 * 15th century CE: Maritime flag semaphores
 * 1672: First experimental acoustic (mechanical) telephone
 * 1790: Semaphore lines (optical telegraphs)
 * 1867: Signal lamps
 * 1877: Acoustic phonograph

 Basic electrical signals:
 * 1838: Electrical telegraph. See: Telegraph history
 * 1858: First trans-Atlantic telegraph cable
 * 1876: Telephone. See: Invention of the telephone, History of the telephone, Timeline of the telephone
 * 1880: Telephony via lightbeam photophones

 Advanced electrical and electronic signals:
 * 1893: Wireless telegraphy
 * 1896: Radio. See: History of radio.
 * 1914: First North American transcontinental telephone calling
 * 1927: Television. See: History of television
 * 1927: First commercial radio-telephone service, U.K.–U.S.
 * 1930: First experimental videophones
 * 1934: First commercial radio-telephone service, U.S.–Japan
 * 1936: World's first public videophone network
 * 1946: Limited capacity Mobile Telephone Service for automobiles
 * 1956: Transatlantic telephone cable
 * 1962: Commercial telecommunications satellite
 * 1964: Fiber optical telecommunications
 * 1965: First North American public videophone network
 * 1969: Computer networking
 * 1973: First modern-era mobile (cellular) phone
 * 1979: INMARSAT ship-to-shore satellite communications
 * 1981: First mobile (cellular) phone network
 * 1982: SMTP email
 * 1983: Internet. See: History of Internet
 * 1998: Mobile satellite hand-held phones
 * 2003: VoIP Internet Telephony

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