Historical Timeline of Communication By JEV24 6000 BCE Drawings on Cave Walls Period: 6000 BCE to 2008 INVENTIONS 2600 BCE Stone & Clay Tablet 200 BCE Ink and Quill 100 BCE Papyrus Paper 1440 Gutenberg Machine 1440 Printing Press 1455 Books(Printed) 1605 Newspaper 1694 Fax Machine(Xerox Corporation) 1774 Electric Telegraph 1829 Typewriter 1837 Telegraph 1867 Modern Typewriter 1876 Telephone 1877 Phonograph 1930 Transistor 1941 Television 1947 Radio (Guglielmo Marconi) 1950 Projector (Eadweard Muybridge) 1951 UNIVAC 1 (J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly) 1969 ARPANET 1970 E-books 1980 Walkman (Masaru Ibuka) 1980 Online games 1981 Laptop 1990 Search Engine 1991 Website 1992 Smartphones 1997 Social Media 2008 Apps