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  • paleolithic cave art
    10,000 BCE

    paleolithic cave art

    Paleolithic cave paintings demonstrate early humans' capacity to give meaning to their surroundings and communicate with others
  • cuneiform
    3500 BCE

    cuneiform

    denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters used in the ancient writing systems of Mesopotamia, Persia, and Ugarit, surviving mainly impressed on clay tablets.
  • Egyptian hieroglyphic
    3100 BCE

    Egyptian hieroglyphic

    hieroglyph, a character used in a system of pictorial writing, particularly that form used on ancient Egyptian monuments
  • handwriting/ illuminated manuscript
    3100 BCE

    handwriting/ illuminated manuscript

    Illuminated manuscripts are hand-written books with painted decoration that generally includes precious metals such as gold or silver
  • printing press
    1440 BCE

    printing press

    The printing press is a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter, main
  • telephone

    telephone

    A telephone is an instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice.
  • telephone

    telephone

    The telephone came about because they were trying to improve the capabilities of the telegraph
  • radio

    radio

    Radio is sound communication by radio waves, usually through the transmission of music, news, and other types of programs from single broadcast stations to multitudes of individual listeners equipped with radio receivers
  • television

    television

    an electronic system of transmitting images with sound over a wire or through space by devices that change light and sound into electrical waves and then change these back into light and sound
  • computers

    computers

    Early computers were meant to be used only for calculations. Simple manual instruments like the abacus have aided people in doing calculations since ancient times
  • gaming system

    gaming system

    A games console is a computer device used to play virtual, or 'video' games, on a screen
  • internet

    internet

    It connected the world in a way that made it much easier for people to get information, share, and communicate.
  • artificial intelligence

    artificial intelligence

    makes it possible for machines to learn from experience, adjust to new inputs and perform human-like tasks