1897 – 23-year-old Guglielmo Marconi received a patent in England for his wireless telegraphy which we now call radio. The Wireless Telegraph and Signal Co. Ltd. was formed a few weeks later.
1928 – W3XK, owned by the Jenkins Television Corporation, went on the air becoming the first television broadcasting station in the US.
http://online.sfsu.edu/hl/cfj/cfj.W3XK.html
2001 – Bram Cohen first revealed BitTorrent on a Yahoo group called decentralization.
http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/decentralization/message/3160
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