From buttons to bytes
Explores how telecommunications expanded and matured from 1945 onwards - into microwave, satellite, mobile and then the internet.
Above all, this is the story of the digital revolution. A revolution that has changed communications technologies so much that it is hard to distinguish where one technology ends and another begins.
Into the digital era
The dawn of the digital age began in World War Two with the invention of secret computers to break German codes. More generally, the war inspired huge...
Digital telephony
The late 1960s saw the start of the move from the old mechanical exchanges with their noisy banks of selectors, switch arms and electromagnets, to the...
Mobile communications
The introduction of mobile phones took over half a century. The introduction of radio telephony in the 1920s made it theoretically possible for people...
Computer Networks
One computer is a computer. Two or more connected and able to exchange data, make a network. Allowing computers to talk to each was one of the great ...
The Digital Age
Convergence doesn't just mean telephones meeting computers on the Internet - it also means digital and Internet-based technologies impacting on every ...
