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5000 BCE
Mayan Codices
are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark cloth. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets
In the ancient near east, clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially writing in cuneiform. -
200 BCE
Woodblock Printing
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images and patterns widely used throughout East Asia and originated in China in antiquity. -
3 BCE
Papyrus
Was used as a writing surface in ancient egypt which was made from the pith of the papyrus plant. -
Period: 1 BCE to
Pre Industrial Age
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Industrial Age
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Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
Telephone
The telephone was the first device in history that enabled people to talk directly with each other across large distances. -
Typewriter
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1878 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although Sholes soon disowned the machine and refused to use, or even to recommend it. -
Television
The Early Television Foundation is dedicated to the preservation of the technology from the early days of television. -
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Electronic Age
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Transistor Radio
A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947 -
Apple I & II
Apple Computer 1, also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. -
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Information age
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Smartphones
People didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone. -
iPad (tablet computers)
iPad is a line of tablet computers designed, developed and marketed by Apple Inc., which run the iOS mobile operating system. -
Laptop Computers
A laptop, also called a notebook computer or just notebook, is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor, having, typically, a thin LCD or LED computer screen -
Virtual Reality
Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment, that incorporates mainly auditory and visual, but also other types of sensory feedback like haptic. -
Smartphones (latest)
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