Readinghistory

History of Reading

By khaid

  • • 4000 BC - Sumerian Logographs

    simple picture writing as a form of language

  • • 2000 BC - Phoenician alphabet

    first alphabet and it contained only consonants

  • • 1000 BC - vowels

    Greeks added vowels to the alphabet.

  • • 200 BC - punctuation marks

    Punctuation marks first appeared in Alexandrian manuscripts of plays written by Aristophanes.
  • 700 AD--lower case

    700 AD--lower case

    Medieval scribes developed the use of lower case letters

  • 900 AD - spaces between words

    Medieval Scribes developed the use of spaces between words

  • • 900 AD - handwritten scripts

  • • 1500 AD - Gutenberg Bible

  • • 2000 AD – Ebooks

    • 2000 AD – Ebooks

  • • 2000 AD – Live Ink

    • 2000 AD – Live Ink

    most advance readability of text