AI Timeline Project

Paleolithic Cave Art

45,500 BCE

Oldest known cave painting found in Sulawesi, Indonesia.

Egyptian Hieroglyphics

3400 BCE

Earliest known hieroglyphic inscriptions in Egypt

Cuneiform

3200 BCE

Earliest known cuneiform writing system developed in Mesopotamia

Hand written/Illuminated Manuscripts

400

Earliest known illuminated manuscripts produced.
Vergilius Romanus, Vergilius Vaticanus, and the Rossano Gospels.

Printing Press

1440

Machine by which text and images are transferred from movable type to paper or other media by means of ink.

Telegraph

1837

First commercial electrical telegraph patented by Samuel Morse.
Telegraphs were point-to-point text messaging systems,

Movies

1895

They used a device of their own making, the Cinématographe, which was a camera, a projector and a film printer all in one.

Radio

1901

Electromagnetic waves are generated by an electronic device called a transmitter connected to an antenna which radiates the waves.

Television

Sep 7, 1927

Electronic television is a type of television that uses electronic signals to produce images on a video screen.

Computer

1945

The ENIAC was the first electronic general-purpose digital computer; it filled a room.

Artificial Intelligence

1956

Birth of artificial intelligence, the IBM 702: a computer used by the first generation of AI researchers.

Gaming Systems

1972

The Magnavox Odyssey was the first video game console.
The first generation of home consoles were generally limited to dedicated consoles with just one or two games pre-built into the console hardware

Internet

1983

Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other.