Technology Timeline

(-) negative as BC

(+) positive as AD

-3500

Sumerians developed Cuneiform writing.

-1500

Phoenicians developed alphabet.

Name origin of alphabet is first 2 greek letters: Alpha+Beta=Alphabet.

ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ.

-105

Tsai Lun invented paper. Paper was made from the tree trunks.

+200

Chinese Abacus was the first counting machine in the world.

+1454

The first printing machine was created.

+1793

The telegraph line was invented, the first telegraph line called morse code.

+1839

Cameras was invented.

+1876

The first telephone was introduced.

+1889

Nintendo Co., Ltd. was founded. During that year, Nintendo was founded as a card company.

+1925

TV was made known to public.

+1941

Harvard University create the first computer, MARK-1.

+1951

Presper Eckert and Wilian Mauchly build the UNIVAC.

UNIVAC: Universal Automatic Computer.

+1956

Transistors were invented by John Bardeen, Walter Houser Brattain and William Sockley.

+1958

The first photocopier machine was invented.

+1963

The first communication satellite was introduced.

+1969

ARPANET is the first known internet.

+1971

The first processor, Intel 4004 was introduced by Intel Corporation.

+1972

The first computer game, Pong was introduced.

+1993

PDA was introduced.

+1995

Microsoft Corporation developed Internet Explorer.

Between late +2006 to early +2007

Latest products are widely developed in between Late 2006 to Early 2007.

Such as: Windows Vista, Microsoft Office 2007, Nintendo DS Lite, Pokémon Diamond and Pearl, Nintendo Wii, Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, Adobe Flash Player 9, Windows Media Player 11, Mozilla Firefox 2.0, Windows Live Messenger, Game Maker 7, HD DVD, Blu-Ray Disc, Internet Explorer 7, Intel Core 2 Duo, Intel Core 2 Extreme and so many more.

+2008

USB 3.0 was introduced. They are 10× faster than USB 2.0.

+2011

The earliest autostereoscopic 3D vision product, NINTENDO 3DS was introduced.

+2012

The desktop operating system which like tablet OS was released, called Windows 8.