Affective Computing Timeline

  • 3300 BCE

    Knapping/Stone Tools

    Knapping/Stone Tools
    Knapping was the use of stone to cut things. So this is the time of stone tools that were used for many things such as slaying animals and scraping meat off bones.
  • 1200 BCE

    Bow and Arrow

    Bow and Arrow
    In 1200 BC the bow and arrow was created to make hunting more easy to accomplish.
  • 1440

    Effective Communication

    Effective Communication
    This is the printing press era. The printing press was invented and it made mass communication more effective and convenient. This invention from Guttenberg was a game changer for reading and spreading information.
  • Handheld Phone

    The Mobira Cityman 900 was released in 1987 by Nokia-Mobira. It was one of the first handheld cell phones. The nickname of the phone in Finland was "Gorba". This was because the president of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev used a Cityman 900 to call Moscow during a press conference in October 1987.
  • Smartwatches

    Smartwatches
    It was in this year that smartwatches were created and becoming popular for their use. They are able to track steps, heart rate, elevation gain or loss, total exercise and more.
  • Needle Free Vaccines

    This is when certain vaccines were made needle-less. For example, there is a way to get the flu shot as a mist that goes in your nose verses an injection.
  • 5G Data

    Cell companies are constantly trying to be the best of the best and now they have created a 5g speed verses 4g or LTE.