technology timeline for the guitar By chriscole1398 Jan 1, 1750 the guitar was first invented had 12 strings Jan 1, 1770 guitar started having only 6 strings Jan 1, 1790 6 string guitar began to appear everywhere around the world Jan 1, 1800 new ways to play the guitar came about Jan 1, 1876 the guitar made a drastic change and looked sorta how it does today Jan 1, 1933 came the electric guitar Jan 1, 1950 modification they made a drastic modification to the electric guitars body Jan 1, 1980 electric guitar became popular Jan 1, 2014 3 new guitars are made and autioned off