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Writing Project
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14 Nov 2019
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First Art discoveries: Art proceeded writing by about 25,000 years
23,000 B.C. Gravettian Period, sculptures of women found throughout southern France built similarly showing established communication
7500 B.C. In Mesopotamia it began with the token system, small clay tokens were used to symbolize traded objects
2700-2600 BC, Writing is starting to be used for things other than accounting
Tokens accompanied by the envelope they came in, est 3300 bc, shows the beginning of shifts to 2d representations
105 CE paper is first used in China using plant and animal fibers. It was invented by Ts'ai Lun, and the Chineese elite wanted to keep it's manufacturing process secret.
1050 CE: Europeans begin using paper
500 CE: Quill was discovered and became the preferred method for over a thousand years after
1888: Ballpoint pen invented by American J.J. Loud
1950: The Bic pen is invented
1714: Patent is submitted in britain for a text imprinting machine
1874: Sholes and Glidden typewriter is invented and uses the QWERTY keyboard
1844: Samuel B.Morse sends first telegraph using morse code, he famously said, “What hath God wrought”
Cuneiform tablet from between 3100 and 2900 BC, represents earlier phases in the development of cuneiform, these tablets had no grammar with symbols representing objects and adjectives. These still played a very economic role
Clay tablets from 3100 bc, found in Iran. Shows 33 jars of oil, use of 2d figures in combination with abstract numbers to represent large amounts of goods
1969: First message is sent from computer to computer
1992: First SMS message is sent
1997: First emojis used
1962: IBM Selectric is released.
1983: Microsoft Word Invented
2006: Google Docs Released
221 BC: Fur brushes were created, early precursor to the pencil.
1500s: Crude pencils are developed
Mid 1800s: Mass Production of Pencils
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Pre Writing: Art v Writing
Early Writing
Paper, Pen, and Pencil
Mechanical Writing
Development and proliferation of Word Processors
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