Telematika merujuk pada hakikat cyberspace sebagai suatu sistem elektronik yang lahir dari perkembangan dan konvergensi telekomunikasi, media dan informatika[1]. Dalam Pengantar Mata Kuliah Hukum Telematika Fakultas Hukum Universitas Indonesia dinyatakan bahwa istilah telematika merujuk pada perkembangan konvergensi antara teknologi telekomunikasi, media dan informatika yang semula masing-masing berkembang secara terpisah. Konvergensi telematika kemudian dipahami sebagai sistem elektronik berbasiskan digital atau the net[2]. Semua kegiatan dengan istilah work and play dapat menggunakan telematika sebagai penunjang kinerja usaha semua usaha dalam semua sektor sosial, ekonomi dan budaya[3].
Penerapan telematika sendiri sebenarnya sudah dimulai sejak era sebelum masehi. Berikut ini beberapa peristiwa penting dalam sejarah perkembangan telematika sejak 3000 sebelum masehi sampai tahun 2001.
| Computers | Telecommunications | |
| Dust abacus is invented, probably in Babylonia | 3000 BC | In Egypt papyrus scrolls and hieroglyphs are used |
| 1184 BC | According to the play Agamemnon written by the Greek poet Aeschylos in 458 BC the fall of Troy was transmitted with torch signals to 555 km away Argos | |
| Bead-and-wire abacus originates in Egypt | 500 BC | |
| 150 | A 4500 kilometres wide smoke signals network covers the Roman Empire | |
| Brahmagupta writes Brahmasphutasiddhanta, the earliest known text to treat zero as a number in its own right | 628 | |
| Wilhelm Schickard builds first four-function calculator-clock at the University of Heidelberg | 1624 | |
| Blaise Pascal builds the first numerical calculating machine in Paris | 1642 | |
| Gottfried Leibniz builds a mechanical calculating machine that multiplies, divides, adds, and subtracts | 1673 | |
| 1809 | Samuel Thomas Soemmering invents the electrical telegraph | |
| 1860 | Antonio Meucci invents the telephone | |
| 1895 | Guglielmo Marconi invents the wireless telegraph | |
| Konrad Zuse completes the Z1 electromechanical binary computer | 1938 | |
| 1946 | First mobile telephone service introduced by AT&T | |
| The IBM 650 becomes the first mass-produced computer | 1953 | |
| Jack Kilby develops the first integrated circuit | 1958 | The first communication satellite SCORE is launched |
| Texas Instruments completes the first hand-held calculator | 1967 | |
| 1969 | The ARPANET (Advanced Research Projects Agency Network) goes online and links the first two computers | |
| The first microprocessor the Intel 4004 is developed | 1971 | |
| The first portable computer the Osborne 1 is released | 1981 | |
| 1992 | World Wide Web released by CERN. All major European operators start commercial operation of GSM networks | |
| 2001 | The first commercial UMTS network is launched in Japan |
Pustaka:
[1] http://www.total.or.id/info.php?kk=Telematics
[2] http://www.law.ui.ac.is/lama/telematika/index.htm
[3] Ibid., h. 247
[4] http://www.telematique.eu/
[5] http://suciptoardi.wordpress.com/
*Dipublish juga di Warta Warga Gunadarma dan web pribadi saya.
