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paleolithic cave art is so important because its the only document left to us by prehistoric people of their lives -
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the vast majority of cuneiform texts remain untranslated. it was so hard to write, Georg Friedrich Grotefend was the first person to crack the code -
Egyptian Hieroglyphics use pictures but not picture writing, they are mostly one single picture symbol for a whole word or a sound -
hand written/ Illuminated manuscripts, these can be as old or older then the Mona Lisa and they some how survived for centuries and some can still be seen to this day -
printing press, some parts of the printing press were from china it was mostly the movable parts and it was undertaken by Korea in the 14th century -
The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage (1822) but was not built until 1991! Alan Turing invented computer science. -
telegraph, was created and it changed how we fought in wars how money was sent and how newspaper conducted business -
an instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice -
70% of Americans tune in to radio for 2 hours and 40 minutes daily -
It took more than a decade for the first TV set to be created and marketed. Even then, it was seen as a novelty and not much else. In fact, only around 50 people had televisions at all -
he first generation of AI researchers were convinced that artificial general intelligence was possible and that it would exist in just a few decades. AI pioneer Herbert A. Simon wrote in 1965: "machines will be capable, within twenty years, of doing any work a man can do." -
Ralph H. Baer devised the concept of playing simple, spot-based games on a television screen in 1966, which later became the basis of the Magnavox Odyssey in 1972. -
993–4, when websites for everyday use started to become available. During the first decade or so of the public Internet, the immense changes it would eventually enable in the 2000s were still nascent.