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30,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
The earliest form of communication The drawings and human hand prints are at least as old the famous prehistoric cave paintings previously uncovered in Spain and France. -
Period: 30,000 BCE to 40,000 BCE
Pre-Industrial Age
This age started way back before 1700s. The only way to store information is through traditional papers and writing materials such as cave paintings and clay tablets. -
3000 BCE
Clay Tablets
Early organizational systems were developed to keep track of library collections. Wooden shelving were used for storage and lists of works housed in the library were created. Evidence of the first writing on clay tablets has been found in southern Mesopotamia. -
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Indutrial Age
The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information computerization. -
Telegraph
Invented by Samuel Morse. The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. -
Typewriter
Cristopher Latham Sholes invented the typewriter with the help of Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule. Although other important inventors had tried to make a typewriter, they weren't commercially successful. But Cristopher Shole's typewriter was certainly the first commercially successful one, invented in 1867.
