ICT4D Timeline

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Events

1865 - International Telecommunication Union was established
1874 - Universal Postal Union was established
1899 - The first International Peace Conference was held in The Hague
12 December 1901 - Marconi successfully receives first transatlantic radio transmissions
1919 - League of Nations was established under the Treaty of Versailles
24 October 1945 - The United Nations officially came into existence
13 September 1956 - IBM introduces the IBM 350 Disk File, the first hard drive
12 September 1958 - Texas Instruments, demonstrates the world's first integrated circuit
1960 - Digital Equipment introduces the first minicomputer, the PDP-1.
1977 - AT&T Bell Labs constructed and operated a prototype cellular phone system