brendan ortega - Timeline

First ever post stamp.

Telephone research begins

invention to the radio

worlds first television system

introduction to the www and http

first library

First carrier pigeon

invention of google

invention of youtube

invention of iphone

About 25,000 years ago the Sumerians, in southern Mesopotamia, started writing on clay tablets and baking them to preserve the information.

Greeks invented an alphabetic system, which allowed the number of symbols to be reduced to just 24 characters.

With the invention of the printing press by Johannes Gutenberg in the 1450s, book production took off

Modern writing is evolving as we speak (and write). The best selling novels in Japan in 2007 were all written on mobile phones and read more like text messages than the standard chapter format many of us are used to.

A couple of years ago, James Adelman and I (Hills & Adelman, 2015) discovered that the written word in American English has continued to evolve even in the past 200 years.

electric telegraph