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DatesEraInventionsHistorical ContextImage1880's - 1910Telegraphs & TelephonesThe world's first commercial telephone exchange on January 28, 1878. The operator would use a cord to physically connect the caller's line to the desired party's line on the switchboa...

1816 - Copper wires were first used underground to relay a telegraph; copper is good electric conductor 1881 - UTP (Unshielded Twisted Pair) is the most common & inexpensive cable used in LANs (local area networks); used in ethernet & telephone lines. 1929...

This timeline of events is prefaced by the 1896 invention of the Radio. It used electromagnetic waves to transmit signals without wires. All wireless system we use — Wi-Fi, Bluetooth, satellite communication, GPS, and even your smartphone — is built on the p...

1966 - Packet Switching is the concept of breaking data into smaller parts that are then sent independently across a network. Once they arrive at the destination, the packets are reassembled. 1969 - ARPANET is the first operational packet switching network,...

Conclusion: The drastic increase in square footage between the switch from Data Centers to Hyperscale AI Data Centers constitutes a worrying shift in scale. With later examples such as the Dalles Facility and the Abilene, TX facility operating more as camp...

We compared the amount of power that each facility outputs in a day against the amount a typical US household uses in a year. The power output started out miniscule, only providing enough power for one of today's smartphones, but gradually rose until the adv...

We plotted speed and access against each other as a means of showing the inverse relationship between the two concepts. As access to technology and internet traffic grows, the speed of software not only keeps up, but also continues decreasing. The speed of d...

Moore's Law is the observation, first made by Gordon Moore in 1965, that the number of transistors on an integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years, leading to more powerful, smaller, and less expensive electronics. This techno-economic model h...

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Within this larger timeline of innovations and events, there are 3 main stories of development. What materials connects us? Understanding cables and the physical networks these create within our landscape. What are the technologies that connected us globa...