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4000 BCE
Primitive Times
The most well-known form of primitive communication is cave paintings. Created by a species of man, The method involved creating pigments made from the juice of fruits and berries, colored minerals, or animal blood. -
3300 BCE
Pictographic writing (hieroglyphics)
Egyptians used hieroglyphs for almost 3,500 years and it was suggested by archaeological discoveries that the Egyptian hieroglyphs may be one of the oldest writing forms. -
1800 BCE
Cuneiform writing
a system of writing used in the ancient Middle East. The name, a coinage from Latin and Middle French roots means “wedge-shaped,” and was a modern designation from the early 18th century onward. It was also one of the most widespread and historically significant writing systems in the ancient Middle East. -
1500 BCE
Alphabetic writing
a group of Semitic-speaking people, perhaps the Phoenicians, on the eastern shore of the Mediterranean invented a consonantal writing system known as North Semitic, which is similar to what we use today. -
450 BCE
Greek optical telegraph
An optical telegraph is a line of stations, typically towers, for the purpose of conveying textual information by means of visual signals. -
60 BCE
Motion picture theorized (Lucretius, Gk)
The photography of colour was theorized decades before it was developed for motion pictures. -
800
Chinese Printing
Woodblock printing or block printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. -
1234
Printing press
The innovation that Johannes Gutenberg is said to have created was small metal pieces with raised backwards letters, arranged in a frame, coated with ink, and pressed to a piece of paper, which allowed books to be printed more quickly. But Choe Yun-ui did that—and he did it 150 years before Gutenberg was even born -
1450
Printing press (Again?)
Goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France in 1440. He returned to Mainz several years later and by 1450, had a printing machine perfected and ready to use commercially: The Gutenberg press. -
Photography
In 1826, French scientist Joseph Nicéphore Niépce, took that photograph, titled View from the Window at Le Gras, at his family's country home. -
Telegraph
Sent by inventor Samuel F.B. Morse on May 24, 1844, over an experimental line from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, the message said: "What hath God wrought?" Taken from the Bible, Numbers 23:23, and recorded on a paper tape, the phrase had been suggested to Morse by Annie Ellsworth, the young daughter of a friend.