Communication Through The Ages Timeline

Paleolithic Cave Art

30,000 BCE

Paleolithic cave paintings demonstrate early humans' capacity to give meaning to their surroundings and communicate with others. Themes and Materials. The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer.

Egyptian Hieroglyphics

3100 BCE

Egyptian hieroglyphs were the formal writing system used in Ancient Egypt for writing the Egyptian language. Hieroglyphs combined logo graphic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with more than 100 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood.

Cuneiform

3000 BCE

Cuneiform is the earliest known writing system and was originally developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia.

Hand written/ Illuminated Manuscripts

3000 BCE

An illuminated manuscript is a handwritten book whose decoration and/or illustration has been painted in gold, silver and rich colours, that make the page shimmer.

Printing Press

1440

A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium,

Computers

Oct 26, 1791

Charles Babbage was an English polymath. A mathematician, philosopher, inventor and mechanical engineer, Babbage originated the concept of a digital programmable computer. Babbage is considered by some to be "father of the computer"

Telegraph

1837

New York University professor Samuel Morse began working on his version of the telegraph in 1832 he developed Morse Code.

Telephone

Mar 7, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell is credited with being the inventor of the telephone since his patent and demonstrations for an apparatus designed for transmitting vocal or other sounds.

Radio

Dec 12, 1901

Radio is the technology of signaling and communicating using radio waves. Radio waves are electromagnetic waves of frequency between 3 hertz and 300 gigahertz.

Television

Sep 7, 1927

Electronic television was first successfully demonstrated in San Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The system was designed by Philo Taylor Farnsworth, who had been working on it since 1920. Electronic television is a type of television that uses electronic signals to produce images on a video screen.

Artificial Intelligence/AI

1956

Artificial intelligence (AI) makes it possible for machines to learn from experience, adjust to new inputs and perform human-like tasks. Most AI examples that you hear about today – from chess-playing computers to self-driving cars – rely heavily on deep learning and natural language processing.

Internet

Jan 1, 1983

January 1, 1983 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. A new communications protocol was established called Transfer Control Protocol/Internetwork Protocol.

Xbox Series X

Nov 10, 2020

Xbox Series X|S consoles deliver next-generation capabilities powered by the Xbox Velocity Architecture, such as faster loading, the ability to seamlessly switch between multiple games with Quick Resume, richer and more dynamic worlds, and frame rates up to 120 FPS.