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Sumerian Language is the earliest recorded language from Ancient Mesopotamia
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Ancient Egyptians used reed brushes to produce hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts on papyrus scrolls.
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The Chinese created early printing techniques involving chiseling an entire page of text into a wood block backwards, applying ink, and printing pages by pressing them against the block.
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Johannes Gutenberg is famous for having designed and built the first printing press to incorporate movable type and mechanised inking and for using his invention to produce the Gutenberg Bible.
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Johann Carolus published the first newspaper called 'Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien'.
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Rowlad Hill brought the postal service to the mass population by changing the old system, making it much more efficient. He made it so that there is a uniform rate of postage regardless of distance. He also changed to prepayment through the use of adhesive stamps.
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Christopher Latham Sholes took inspiration for his invention from other attempts that were much slower and the size of a piano.
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The first telephone was created by Alexander Graham Bell.
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Eadweard Muybridge created the first motion picture, of Leland Stanford riding on a horse.
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Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi created the first form of radio or wireless telegraph.
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Philo Farnsworth, an American inventor created the first all electric television.
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John Vincent Atanasoff, created the first special-purpose electronic computer.
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Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn created the Internet communication protocols.
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The Simon Personal Communicator was created by IBM
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Six Degrees is widely considered to be the very first social networking site
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Mark Zuckerberg launches the website.
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Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim created youtube.
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Initially focussing on photography and sharing photos taken with a smartphone before becoming a general social media platform