First Long Distance Telephone Call Made
12 February, 1877
On this date, Scientist and Inventor, Alexander Graham Bell made the first long distance telephone call between Boston and Salem, Massachusetts.
One of the first Projector Patented
13 February, 1895
The Lumiere brothers, Auguste Marie Louis Nicolas and Louis Jean patent their cinematograph, one of the earliest motion picture projectors. The cinématographe , was one of the first “all-in-one” devices, overtaking HP by about 100 years, serving as a film camera and developer.
IBM is born
14 February, 1924
The Computing Tabulating Recording Corporation is officially renamed as International Business Machines, or most commonly known as IBM.
YouTube is launched
15 February, 2005
13 years ago, the video sharing site, YouTube, is launched. Prior to YouTube days, few web sites had such an immediate impact on people’s usage of the Internet. Google paid $1.65 billion dollars to purchase YouTube just less than 2 years after its launch. Nowadays, Facebook, Google, and Gmail are among the most visited web sites in the world along with YouTube
16 February, 1968
The first 911 emergency telephone systems began service in Haleyville, Alabama.
