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The first known writing was invented in Sumer near the Persian Gulf in Mesopotamia. This is now known as cuneiform. It was written on clay tablets and used reeds for writing tools. Around this same time the Egyptians were inventing hieroglyphics for their language.
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The 'Epic of Gilgamesh' is the first recorded story.
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The earliest confirmed evidence of the Chinese script yet discovered is the body of inscriptions on oracle bones and bronze from the Late Shang period. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing
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The Romans learned writing in about the 5th century BCE from the Etruscan civilization, who used one of a number of Italic scripts derived from the western Greeks. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_writing
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Scholars commonly credit the ancient Romans with publishing the first newspaper, Acta Diurna, or daily doings, in 59 BCE. Although no copies of this paper have survived, it is widely believed to have published chronicles of events, assemblies, births, deaths, and daily gossip. https://open.lib.umn.edu/mediaandculture/chapter/4-2-history-of-newspapers/#:~:text=Scholars%20commonly%20credit%20the%20ancient,%2C%20deaths%2C%20and%20daily%20gossip.
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In Germany, the goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg created the first printing press. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press#:~:text=Typically%20used%20for%20texts%2C%20the,events%20in%20the%20second%20millennium.&text=In%20Germany%2C%20around%201440%2C%20the,which%20started%20the%20Printing%20Revolution. -
The first computer was invented by Charles Babbage.
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In the U.S., one of the first commercially made typewriters was patented in 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule. https://guides.loc.gov/this-month-in-business-history/march/typewriter-production-began#:~:text=In%20the%20U.S.%2C%20one%20of,patent%20in%201878%20US%20207%2C559%20). -
An American, John J Loud, received the first patent for a ballpoint pen back in 1888.
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On 3 April 1973, Martin Cooper, a Motorola researcher and executive, made the first mobile telephone call from handheld subscriber equipment.