Communication and information sharing has evolved tremendously, especially in past 50 years. Take a look at the history of communication and see how Wolters Kluwer is at the forefront of innovation in this digital age.

1. THE HISTORY OF
COMMUNICATION
Now and Then
As you can see, communication has evolved and grown in many ways throughout history.
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SOURCES:
Bright Hub, http://www.brighthub.com/internet/web-development/articles/109527.aspx
Britain Express, http://www.britainexpress.com/History/Townlife.htm
Design Boom®
, http://www.designboom.com/history/floppydisk.html
Everyday Mysteries, http://www.loc.gov/rr/scitech/mysteries/telephone.html
Georgia Tech, http://www.ipst.gatech.edu/amp/collection/museum_invention_paper.htm
Google®
, http://www.google.com/about/company/history/
History Reference, http://www.historyreference.com/library/reffirstten.html
Mashable, http://mashable.com/2012/10/25/instant-messaging-history/
Nielsen, http://www.nielsen.com/us/en/insights/news/2014/nielsen-estimates-116-3-million-tv-homes-in-the-us.html
Pigeons as Pets, http://www.pigeonsaspets.co.uk/2012/07/29/doves-and-pigeons-at-the-olympics/
Search Engine History, http://www.searchenginehistory.com/
Search Engine Watch, http://searchenginewatch.com/sew/news/2066941/jeeves-retires
Tech Target®
, http://searchnetworking.techtarget.com/definition/ARPANET
Television Obscurities, http://www.tvobscurities.com/articles/color60s/
The Guardian, http://www.theguardian.com/science/2012/mar/11/cave-painting-symbols-language-evolution
The Library Company, http://www.librarycompany.org/about/index.htm
The New World Encyclopedia™
, http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Postal_system
TNW News, http://thenextweb.com/insider/2011/08/06/20-years-ago-today-the-world-wide-web-opened-to-the-public/
CCH®
IntelliConnect®
2009
CCH IntelliConnect, the industry’s leading tax research
platform is born. It serves as a gateway to Wolters Kluwer’s
content, tools and integration.
CCH®
IntelliConnect Browser Search
2014
Transforming the way tax research is conducted, the plug-in is
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queries through Wolters Kluwer’s subscriber content, and
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Google®
, Bing®
or Yahoo!®
results page.
2008
Google®
Chrome becomes available for download.
Five years later, Chrome boasts more than
750 million users.
1996
Ask Jeeves is launched as a virtual question
and answer service. This was different than the
traditional search engines and directories. ? 1994
Yahoo!®
launches its Web directory, relying on
outsourcing the search function to other companies
until it builds its own Web search engine in 2002.
!
1997
AOL®
pioneers Internet chat with AIM®
(AOL®
Instant Messenger). This also leads to the birth of
chat abbreviations, LOL.
1993
Mosaic, the first browser application to be freely
available to the public, is launched. It inspired the
birth of the first commercial browser, Netscape®
Navigator; while Mosaic’s technology went on to
form the basis of Microsoft®
Internet Explorer®
.
1991
The World Wide Web becomes publicly available,
changing the way the world connects, forever.W W W.
1970s
The invention of the floppy disk allows for portable
transfer of information and knowledge.
1967
ARPANET (The Advanced Research Projects Agency
Network) was the precursor network to what we
now know as the global Internet.1960
Databases are introduced as a system to store,
organize and retrieve information and data.
1950
Color television broadcasting introduces visual
imagery to mass audiences. Today, there are 116.3
million homes with TVs in the United States.1920
Station KDKA made the nation’s first commercial
radio broadcast. The date was chosen because it
was Election Day. 1876
The first successful bi-directional transmission of
clear speech, a.k.a. the telephone, is patented.
770 B.C. TO A.D. 300
At the end of the Olympic Games, carrier pigeons
were sent to villages to announce the winners.
MIDDLE AGES
Town criers shared public proclamations and local
bylaws required by the court.
1731
America’s first successful lending library is founded
as a means to share knowledge.
1690
The first American newspaper is published in
Boston titled, Publick Occurences, Both Foreign
and Domestick.
A.D. 105
Papermaking is invented by Ts’ai Lun by beating
hemp waste and water to a pulp.
550 B.C.
Persian King Cyrus the Great created the first
postal service — which also doubled as an
information and tax gathering system.
30,000 YEARS AGO
Symbols were painted inside of caves, which may
be the first forms of written language.