Early Beginnings
The early beginnings of ICT originate from almost 3000 years before the birth of Christ, which was the abacus. Early versions of the calculator were then being invented as the years went on to replace the abacus. In 1624 the very first four-function calculator clock was invented. Mechanical versions of the calculator followed in the years to come. Calculators as we know them couldn't have existed until 1780, when Benjamin Franklin discovered electricity. 1
The 1st electronic calculator was built by Konrad Zuse in 1931. In the year of 1940 at Bell Labs, the Complex Number Calculator is tested and then demonstrated. This is thought to have been the first digital (pulse wave rather than analogue wave run) computer. The word "computer" was first recorded as being used in 1613 and was originally was used to describe a human who performed calculations or computations. The definition of a computer remained the same until the end of the 19th century when people began to realize machines never get tired and can perform calculations much faster and more accurately than any team of human computers ever could.
In the 1870s, two inventors Elisha Gray and Alexander Graham Bell both independently designed devices that could transmit speech electrically (the telephone). When Bell began experimenting with electrical signals, the telegraph had been an established means of communication for some 30 years. Alexander Graham Bell's notebook entry of 10 March 1876 describes his successful experiment with the telephone indicating this to be the day telephones began to evolve
The above are all of the early beginnings of ICT which are the most influential and led to the world being a much more communicative place
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