Different Devices Through The Ages By elisha.allen 35,000 BCE Cave paintings 2500 BCE Papyrus in Egypt 2400 BCE Clay tablets in Mesopotamia 130 BCE Acta Diurna in Rome 220 Printing press using wood blocks 1640 Newspaper- The London Gazette 1800 Typewriter 1844 Telegraph 1876 Telephone 1890 Motion picture photography/projection 1913 Commercial motion pictures 1926 Motion picture with sound 1941 Television 1960 Mainframe computers – i.e. IBM 704 1968 Personal computers – i.e. Hewlett-Packard 9100A 1980 Laptops 1993 Tablets 1995 Web browsers – i.e. Internet Explorer 1996 Search Engines – i.e. Google 2003 Blogs – i.e. WordPress 2003 Video chat – i.e. Skype 2004 Social networks – i.e. Facebook 2005 Video – i.e. YouTube 2006 Microblogs – i.e. Twitter