The first message in history was transmitted on May 24, 1844 at 8:45 a.m. Morse in Washington telegraphed to Vail in Baltimore, "What Hath God Wrought."

First written languages are developed by the Sumerian people of southern Mesopotamia.

The first workable prototype of the Internet was invented.

German inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany when he began experimenting with printing in France. He returned to Mainz several years later and by 1450, had a printing machine perfected and ready to use commercially

Ts'ai Lun makes the first paper in China.