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Period: 40,600 BCE to 1000 BCE
Cave Art
Pictures/drawings made in caves to display a story and/or message to whoever saw them. -
Period: 3500 BCE to 3000 BCE
Cuneiform
Clay tablets used to write on and document. Mesopotamians are credited to be the first ones to do this. -
104
Paper
First reported in 104 A.D but thought to have been used 200 years earlier in China. Mainly for it's use to write on, paper is a traditional use for communication -- from personal letters to mass messages. -
Sep 15, 1040
Movable Type
The first "printing press" invented by Bi Sheng during the Northern Song Dynasty. -
Sep 15, 1440
European Printing Press
Johannes Gutenerg from Germany took the chinese idea and used it with the more successful english alphabet. The first use was with the King James Bible. -
Radio
Brazilian priest Roberto Landell de Moura was first credited to transmit the human voice wirelessly, and the development grew rapidly from there. -
Film
Film was first created in the 1880s; however, scenes began to be connected to tell a story in the 20s. Starting with silent movies then into sound. -
Commercial Television
Television stations in certain locations, that grew over time, supported the televisions. -
Typewriter
Similar machines have been created decades before, but due to a high demand in business communications, the pressure for a typewriter's popularity came into existence around the Civil War era. -
The Internet
Computers connecting to share servers -- mainly to share university research but eventually grew to more until the point of social media.
