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35,000 BCE
Paleolithic Cave Art
The earliest known cave paintings were found in Chauvet Cave, France -
35,000 BCE
Cuneiform
One of the earliest writing systems, originating in Mesopotamia -
Period: 35,000 BCE to
Inventions over History
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3200 BCE
Egyptian Hieroglyphics
Writing system used in ancient Egypt -
401 BCE
Handwritten/Illuminated Manuscripts
Handwritten books, often lavishly illustrated -
1440
Printing Press
Invented by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1440s, enabling mass book production -
Telegraph
Electrical telegraph patented by Samuel Morse in 1837 -
Radio
Radio waves were first produced by Heinrich Hertz in 1887 -
Movies
First commercial movie screening by the Lumière brothers in 1895 -
Television
The first working television system was demonstrated in 1927 and created by Philo Farnsworth -
Computers
Early computers like the Z3 (1941) and ENIAC (1946), Personal computers emerge in 1970s-1980s -
Artificial Intelligence
Term coined in 1956, field develops through neural networks, machine learning -
Gaming Systems
Early home consoles like the Magnavox Odyssey (1972)
Nintendo, Sega, Sony, and Microsoft systems follow -
Internet
ARPANET precursor developed in 1960s
World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by Tim Berners-Lee