GSTS FINAL TOPIC 1 (YEARS)

3000 bc

summeria writing system used pictorgraphs to represent words

2900 bc

beginnings of egyptian heiroglyphic writing

1300 bc

tortoise shell and oracle bone writing were used

500 bc

papyrus roll was used

220 bc

chinese small seal writing was developed

100 ad

book (parchment codex)

105 ad

woodblock printing and paper was invented by the chinese

1455

johannes gutenberg invented the printing press using movable metal type

1755

samuel johnson’s dictionary standardized english spelling

1802

the library of congress was established. Invention of the carbon arc lamp

1824

research on persistence of vision published

1830s

first viable design for a digital computer. Augusta Lady Byron writes the worlds first computer program

1837

invention of the telegraph in great britain and the united states

1861

motion pictures were projected onto a scream

1876

dewey decimal system was introduced

1877

eadweard muybridge demonstrated high speed photography

1899

first magnetic recordings were released

1902

motion picture special effects were used

1906

lee de forest invented the electronic amplifying tube (triode)

1923

television camera tube was invented by zvorkyo

1926

first practical sound movie

1939

regularly scheduled television broadcasting began in the US

1940

beginning of information science as discipline

1945

Vannevar Bush foresaw the invention of hypertext

1946

ENIAC computer was developed

1948

birth of field of information theory proposed by claude e shannon

1957

Planar transistor was developed by Jean Hoerni

1958

First integrated circuit

1960

library of congress developed I.C MARC (machine readable code)

1969

UNIX operating system was developed which could handle multitasking

1971

intel introduced the first microprocessor chip

1972

optical laserdisc was developed by philips and MCA

1974

MCA and Philips agreed on a standard videodisc encoding format

1975

altair microcomputer kit was released first personal computer for the public

1977

RadioShack introduced the first complete personal computer

1984

Apple Macintosh computer was introduced

Mid 1980s

artificial intelligence was separated from information science

1987

hypercard was developed by Bill Atkinson recipe box metaphor

1991

Four hundred fifty complete works of literature on one CD ROM was released

January 1997

RSA (encryption and network security software) Internet security code cracked for a 48 bit number