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

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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/

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