A monumental day in history.

There have been many watershed events in the history of technological innovation:

1800 - Volta invents the battery.

1834 - Samuel Morse invents the telegraph.

1854 - John Tyndall demonstrates the principles of fiber optics.

1876 - Alexander Graham Bell patents the telephone.

1916 - Radios tuners invented, that received different stations.

1940 - Peter Goldmark invents modern color television system.

1942 - John Atanasoff and Clifford Berry built the first electronic digital computer.

1947 - Mobile phones first invented. Although cell phones were not sold commercially until 1983, AT&T came up with the idea way back then.

1985 - Windows program invented by Microsoft.

1990 - The World Wide Web/Internet protocol (HTTP) and WWW language (HTML) created by Tim Berners-Lee.

and finally,

April 13th, 2008 - My mom discovers how to send a picture over e-mail.

Thanks to my brother Dave for teaching her!

Maybe this isn't important to you, but being 10,000 miles away from my family is tough. I only get to see them twice a year, but now that Mom has taken this gigantic leap forward in communication, I should be getting many more updates on the grandchildren, Griffin and Lauren. I can't wait until she starts her own YouTube series devoted to her adventures with these two cuties.