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The city of Ugarit was formed, and they wrote Mesopotamian cuneiform on clay tablets. They also developed a cosmopolitan civilization, along with Aegean, Anatolia, Mesopotamis, and Egypt, and their own alphabetical order
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The Ugarit branch of the alphabetic family died out after Ugarit fell.
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The Aramaeans introduced the "mothers of reading" in 9th century BC. The mater lectionis was their version of the long vowel, and they became known around the eleventh-tenth centuries BC.
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The Carthaginian dialect of the Phoenician script spread all over Europe, and although Carthage was destroyed in 146BC, it was still spoken until the 5th century AD.
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The oldest printed book dates back to 880BC and it discussed Buddha's opinions.
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The Egyptians invented papyrus in 500BC.
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The first newsletters and subscriptions were sent out by the Romans with the start of their postal service in the 4th century.
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This library was constructed in the third century, contained 40,000 volumes and was destroyed in the fifth century. It held all historic works, and only a few copies were found in the remains.
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The Chinese started to use plant and animal fibers to produce paper; the actual product was invented by Ts'ai Lun.
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The Ugarit script was modified to include vowels, be written left to write, and it was used for Semitic languages like Amharic and Tigrinya.
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The first Altaic people to write back in the sixth century AD. Their oldest inscriptions date back to the eighth century, found in Mongolia. Their script was written from right to left.
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Originally made out of reeds, animal horns, and bones, the quill evolved into a metal pen around AD500. Metal pens were even found in the ruins of Pompeii.
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The Chinese invented the first printing technology that transferred pictures and text from wood to parchment.
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The Phoenicians made changes to the script, and now it regularly ran from right to left. They all faced the same direction, and were pushed down to 22.
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There's evidence of manuscripts written on Ts'ai Lun's invention dating back to 1050.
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The Incans used quipus to record keep. They were knotted strings that kept track of records, and are similar to the binary system of the common computer.
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Invented by Johannes Gutenberg in 1439, it produced a movable type-based printing system.
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Gutenberg created his 42-line bible on the printing press.
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The first English Bible was created by William Tyndale.
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The concept of the typewriter was patented by Henry Mill in 1714.
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Thomas Edison patented the first electric typewriter by the end of the 1800s
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The first penny newspapers were released in the 1830s by the New York Sun and the New York Herald. They created news media for the masses that shared stories of a scandalizing or commercial nature.
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The telegraph was invented to make it possible to communicate over long distances by Morse code, which was created by Samuel B. Morse.
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With demand for news, the Pony Express was invented, so mailman carried saddlebags of mail to their destinations. The transcontinental railroad was also used to transport mail.
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The first keyboard to have the QWERKY layout was the Sholes and Glidden typewriter. It was sold for $125, and the only flaw was that the user basically typed blindly.
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Alexander Graham Bell invented the first phone, giving people the ability to communicate at long distances.
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After realizing that the quill's ink was messy, Lewis Edson Waterman invented the first fountain pen.
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Invented in 1884, Albert Dick created the first machine that copied documents.
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Invented by J.J Loud, this pen could only be used on hard surfaces.
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The Underwood Typewriter revolutionized typing. It gave typists more visibility when typing, and it outsold the Sholes typewriter. This typewriter increased demand in office jobs, led to Mark Twains first typed manuscript "Life on the Mississippi," and it led to women having more jobs.
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Invented by Konrad Zuse, and it was the first functional computer.
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Lazlo Josef Biro patented the first ballpoint pen, his name actually became synonymous for ballpoint pen.
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Invented by Marcel Bich in 1950, which led to the crystal version in 1958.
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The first stylus used on a tablet, invented by Tom Dimond.
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Created by Chester Carlson, the first photocopier was sold in 1959 and revolutionized the copying of the printed page.
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First typewriter to use magnetic tape that was reusable.
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W.F. Albright deciphered 23 correct phonemic letters of protoCanaanite. Although, people were still skeptical of his deciphering.
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The Dynabook concept was created and was way before its time. It acted as though it was paper and pencil, an easel, typewriter, and musical instrument in one, but it wasn’t able to be created.
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Touchscreens were invented by Dr. G Samuel Hurst, which led to the idea behind the stylus.
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The Declaration of Independence was the first ebook released during Project Gutenberg.
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Martin Cooper invented the first cell phone in 1973 while working for Motorola.
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Word-processing was in demand, so Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, WordStar and Apple Writer II were created. Also, email was created and the first message was sent using ARPAnet's mail system... the email said "QWERTYUIOP."
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The first laptop was invented in 1981 and it was called Osborne 1.
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The Grid Compass was the next step in the laptop industry, but it was really bulky and ugly.
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The Voyager company released ebooks on CD-ROMs, including Jurassic Park
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Mac joined the laptop with the first portable Mac computer, called the Macintosh Portable, and it was deemed one of the worst products ever.
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The earliest samples of alphabetic writing were found in the 1990s in the "Valley of Terror" in Egypt. The scripts contained two inscriptions that dated around 1900-1800BC during Egypt's golden age.
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The Personal Digital Assistant, called Apple Newton, was released by Apple and was created to take notes on the go and keep track of events
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There were 50 digital books on floppy disk offered by Digital Book Inc.
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Toshiba released their Libretto and it was the first subnotebook ever because it was so small.
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Danielle was brought into the world on August 18, 1996.
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Created by five companies: Ericsson, Intel, Nokia, Toshiba, and IBM. It's now possible to transmit things wirelessly.
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Google was found by Larry Page and Sergey Brin.
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The first ebook readers were launched (called the rocket ebook) and librarys provided free ebooks for the public through their websites.
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The first Microsoft tablet was released and Bill Gates claimed it had no limits.
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Amazon Kindle, books were now more available digitally and the kindle made it possible to carry them everywhere.
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The first iPad was released with iBooks, which sold half a million ebooks in less than a month, then Google ebooks launched, and Amazons ebook sales outnumbered their hardcopy sales.
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Microsoft Surface was released, but is considered more as a tablet than a laptop with an adjustable kickstand and keyboard.
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More ebooks were sold than hardcopies for the first time ever.
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A company called QwerkyToys created the first typewriter-inspired bluetooth keyboard, nearly 150 years after the typewriter was invented.
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The iPencil was released by Apple alongside the iPad Pro; it can be used as though it's an actual pencil.
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Apple released the first iPad Pro in 2015, it offered more technology than all the other iPads and was compatible with the new iPencil.
