communication through the ages timeline

By Lexus Shepherd
  • 30,000 BCE

    paleolithic cave art

    paleolithic cave art
    paleolithic cave art is so important because its the only document left to us by prehistoric people of their lives
  • Period: 30,000 BCE to

    communication through the ages timeline

  • 3200 BCE

    cuneiform

    cuneiform
    the vast majority of cuneiform texts remain untranslated. it was so hard to write, Georg Friedrich Grotefend was the first person to crack the code
  • 3100 BCE

    Egyptian Hieroglyphics

    Egyptian Hieroglyphics
    Egyptian Hieroglyphics use pictures but not picture writing, they are mostly one single picture symbol for a whole word or a sound
  • 1400

    hand written/ Illuminated manuscripts

    hand written/ Illuminated manuscripts
    hand written/ Illuminated manuscripts, these can be as old or older then the Mona Lisa and they some how survived for centuries and some can still be seen to this day
  • 1436

    printing press

    printing press
    printing press, some parts of the printing press were from china it was mostly the movable parts and it was undertaken by Korea in the 14th century

  • computer

    computer
    The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage (1822) but was not built until 1991! Alan Turing invented computer science.

  • telegraph

    telegraph
    telegraph, was created and it changed how we fought in wars how money was sent and how newspaper conducted business

  • telephones

    telephones
    an instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice

  • radio

    radio
    70% of Americans tune in to radio for 2 hours and 40 minutes daily

  • television

    television
    It took more than a decade for the first TV set to be created and marketed. Even then, it was seen as a novelty and not much else. In fact, only around 50 people had televisions at all

  • artificial intelligence

    artificial intelligence
    he first generation of AI researchers were convinced that artificial general intelligence was possible and that it would exist in just a few decades. AI pioneer Herbert A. Simon wrote in 1965: "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do."

  • gaming system

    gaming system
    Ralph H. Baer devised the concept of playing simple, spot-based games on a television screen in 1966, which later became the basis of the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972.

  • internet

    internet
    993–4, when websites for everyday use started to become available. During the first decade or so of the public Internet, the immense changes it would eventually enable in the 2000s were still nascent.