The first day Twitter

13 Jul 1882 in Moscow started the first telephone station. It was not the first in the country, but her “rival” in St. Petersburg launched, in modern language, commercial operations only in October of that year.

Барышня соединяет абонентов наугад
The young lady connects subscribers at random

Station at that time was, of course, manual rather than automatic subscribers connected telephone operator, and because of hard work and noise were often mistakes. It was built by the Bell Telephone company, and the capacity of the network originally was only 800 numbers. The first Moscow telephone station was located in the house of a merchant Popov at the Kuznetsk bridge. Because of this, the roof even had to build a wooden tower, from which in all directions leads. The new generation of communication at first was very expensive — a monthly fee was 250 rubles a year (the average salary of workers of factory in those days was about 16 rubles a month).

Now the network MGTS millions of telephone subscribers and the Internet.

13 July 2005, Fujitsu introduced the world’s first flexible color e-paper film substrate. The main advantage of electronic ink is that they consume energy only when changing image. The rest of the time the image is stored by itself, even if the gadget completely out of battery power. The role of the pixels it was made up of tiny capsules filled with granules, differently react to the electric field. Submitting the necessary voltage, it is possible to redistribute them so that the viewer was drawn particles of the desired shade.

Гибкая цветная электронная бумага Fujitsu
Flexible color electronic paper Fujitsu

At the time, exotic was even “normal” — inflexible, able to output only grayscale electronic paper, and the “reading room” it was worth hundreds of dollars. Unfortunately for Samsung and other companies that led the development of color e-paper has entered the market by the end of the first decade of the XXI century, but never managed to gain popularity. Flexible same device and does can be counted on the fingers of one hand.

13 July 2006 was the launch of Twitter — the same one where I write posts in 140 characters. Such a limit is not so much a desire to teach people to be brief, as the fact that initially the service focused on SMS: new tweets were sent in the form of messages on the phones of friends of the user. One SMS up to 160 characters (Cyrillic capacity below), but 20 of them reserved for the user name.

Современный Twitter на смартфоне
Modern Twitter on your smartphone

However, with the development of mobile Internet and smartphones Twitter completely turned into an online service, and had already formed the format of microblogging. It turned out that the limit of 140 characters allows you to share immediate thoughts and helps to formulate them clear and understandable. In addition, the tape of the short posts can take a couple of minutes and be in the know not only familiar, but also stars that are quickly reached out on Twitter. A year later after running through the service sent 400 thousand tweets per quarter, and by 2008 users “drive” up to 100 million tweets. Over time, Twitter has added support for pictures and video, and major media outlets began to use the service as a source the hottest information.


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