HISTORY OF DIGITAL MEDIA
Wireless Technology and Digital Media: How It All Began
MD: History of wireless communication: how it all began and what it has become.
Wireless technology and wireless communication have been tirelessly advancing throughout the past century. The history of Digital Media is also a long, complex, and progressive one. The wireless transfer of data over short distances began with radios in 1897, originally called wireless telegraphy since sound and speech could not be transferred. Within the next two decades, the distance between transfers was made greater due to the steady advancement of instruments being created. In the 1920s, sports and news broadcasts finally emerged and radio was made available to even more people and homes.
The development of wireless radio was followed by the creation of the satellite in the late 1950s. Satellites helped make long distance telephony possible by connecting isolated places to populated ones while also connecting everyone on earth to space. Today satellite radios offer their services as opposed to ground-based radios which do not allow listeners to browse radio stations all over the country of even a continent. Satellite internet has also been majorly significant to those who live in remote areas and cannot access broadband connections.
Sharing media via the internet is something we take for granted but it could not be made possible without the use of wireless satellites and FSO (Free Space Optics). With FSO, satellites connect in space using lasers to provide faster and safer communication between spacecrafts as well as between devices on land. FSO also allow for a fast Ethernet connection speed in metropolitan areas between LAN-to-LAN connections.
Today we can transmit almost any type of data wirelessly using a variety of devices and machines. The definition of “wireless” has indeed changed over time and definitely for the better. With the help of the internet and many devices that have access to it, people on all continents can interact with each other and access the same information and digital media everywhere.
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