1950
1951
1952	IRE Professional Group on Communications Systems is formed.
1953	John Pierce proposes deep space communication.
1954	US Air Force's SAGE system sets precedent for computer communications, including use of modems.
1955	Recorded announcements of disconnected and changed numbers begin to be used in some small dial offices.
1956	The Bell System and the British Post Office inaugurates service on a transatlantic telephone cable, TAT-1. The 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded to the inventors of the transistor: Dr. Walter H. Brattain, Dr. John Bardeen and Dr. William Shockley.
1957	Soviet Union launches Sputnik, humanity's first artificial satellite, on 5 October.
1958	Jack S. Kilby and Robert Noyce independently invent an Integrated Circuit.
1959