Development of Technology

By karalynn
  • 12,000 BCE

    Paleolithic Cave Art

    Paleolithic Cave Art
    The earliest form of visual communication by humans was Paleolithic Cave Art, with the oldest known figurative paintings over thousands of years old. depicting human figures hunting in Indonesia. These ancient cave drawings represent the first spark of expressing ourselves through imagery.
  • Period: 12,000 BCE to

    Development in Technology

    Each new invention built upon the capabilities of the previous, continuously accelerating the pace and reach of how humans can communicate and access information over time.
  • 3300 BCE

    Cuneiform

    Cuneiform
    Cuneiform was developed in Mesopotamia as one of the earliest writing systems, allowing records and knowledge to be preserved beyond just oral traditions.
  • 3000 BCE

    Egyptian Hieroglyphics

    Egyptian Hieroglyphics
    Egyptian hieroglyphs emerged as another crucial early written language. Known as people drawn from a side view. And for pictures.
  • 500

    Illuminated Manuscripts

    Illuminated Manuscripts
    Many centuries later around 500-800 CE, illuminated manuscripts became an art form in European monasteries, beautifully illustrating and hand-writing important works.
  • 1450

    Printing press

    Printing press
    This labor-intensive process motivated the revolutionary printing press invented by Gutenberg in the 1450s, enabling books to be mass-produced.

  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    In the 1830s, the telegraph made near-instant long-distance communication possible for the first time.

  • Radio

    Radio
    This was followed by the 1890s births of radio technology for broadcasting. It helped with communication, news, music, and stories.

  • Motion picture

    Motion picture
    The motion picture movies was a new mass media forms. with pictures moving really fast making it look like it's moving.

  • Television

    Television
    Television combined these in the 1920s-1930s as the dominant audio-visual medium for decades. People would watch movies and later on became a huge form of entertainment.

  • Computer

    Computer
    Concurrently, computer foundations were laid in the 1930s-1940s. The computer was made for doing works in writing, jobs, looking up information, keeping files, etc.

  • Video games

    Video games
    leading to video games in the 1950s. Which is like television but you can control what the images do. And personal computers by the 1970s-1980s.

  • Internet

    Internet
    The Internet precursors of the 1960s culminated in the World Wide Web going mainstream in the 1990s, sparking the digital revolution of global communication networks.

  • Artificial intelligence

    Artificial intelligence
    Most recently, artificial intelligence systems have advanced rapidly since the 2010s, with potential to drive the next transformative wave across all communication technologies and media.