Communications Through-out the ages

Paleolithic Cave Art

15,000 BCE

A group of teenagers stumbled across a cave full of cave drawings. These were like nothing no one had ever seen before. We later found out these were drawings of prehistoric humans with no language so they had to communicate through pictures. We also know that these drawings are from around 15,000-17,000 years ago.

Cuneiform

3100 BCE

This is the earliest wrighting system, it was first developed to write the Sumerian language of southern Mesopotamia. But it lost popularity when simpler forms of writing were developed it was simply just to hard to wright.

Illuminated Manuscripts

660

These where handwritten books with painted decorations and they normally had some type of precious metal in them. Some examples of the Illuminated manuscript are the Vergilius Romanus, Vergilius Vaticanus, And Rossano Gospels.

Gutenberg printing press

1440

The Gutenberg printing press was history's first-ever printing press it could produce up to 3,600 pages per workday and used a printing method called movable type which allowed someone to print multiple copies of symbols.

Telegraph

May 24, 1844

The telegraph was invented by Sir William Fothergill as well as Sir Charles Wheatstone both obtained a patent for the telegram but the idea was that it could send electrical pulses through long distances and transmit messages. In 1832 Samuel F.B. Morse became fascinated with the telegraph and developed an alphabet of dots and dashes to symbolise letters and thus Morse code was born.

Telephone

Mar 7, 1876

Alexander Graham Bell was the first person to received a patent for a method of transmitting speech by telephone. And 1878 the first telephone was constructed and within the next three years 40,000 people had telephones.

Radio

1895

The first communication sent over radio waves was sent by Guglielmo Marconi he invented what he called the "wireless telegraph, and while experimenting in his parent's attic he used radio waves to transmit Morse code, and the instrument he used became called the radio.

Television

Feb 7, 1927

Television or TV is a form of communication that displays moving pictures and sounds. The television was put onto the market in 1930 in the UK it was based on John Baird's television design, and was considered the first mass-produced television.

Computers

Feb 14, 1946

The world's first general-purpose electronic computer was introduced to the world in 1946. Home computers were put on the market years later in 1977 when a line of what was called microcomputers where introduced to the world. These computers were marketed to consumers to be more affordable and by the 1980s were very common.

Artificial intelligence

Aug 31, 1955

Herbert Simon and Allen Newell developed the first "Logic Theorist" which was the first artificial intelligence program that eventually would prove 38 of the first 52 theorems in Whitehead and Russell's Principia Mathematica.

gaming systems

1972

The Magnavox Odyssey was the first home gaming console. It was invented by engineer Ralph Baer, who started the building of the game system in 1966 and then released in 1972 to the public. There was a total of 28 games on the console that were distributed through 11 different game cards.

Internet

Jan 1, 1983

The concept of the internet is a global network of billions of computers and other electronic devices. The idea of the internet was developed by two computer scientists Vinton Cerf and Robert Kahn. In 1973 Cerf who was a professor at Standford University began to design the TCP (Transmission Control Protocol) and IT (Internet Protocol) these were groundworks for the global internet and on April 30, 1993, the world wide web was released to the public.