From Cave Paintings to the Internet: 50,000 years of Information Technology

THE DESIRE to promulgate with one another has been a driving beautiful force throughout a time upon earth. As a medium of countenance evolved a message went mobile as well as traveled through worlds both earthy as well as digital.

Prehistoric Cave Art ~ 50,000 20,000 BC

One of a earliest methods of information technology which survives today is a paleolithic cavern paintings left by a antiquated ancestors. Hunting scenes, internal flora as well as fauna as well as palm imprints are usual themes of these early artistic expressions. Photo by Historias de Cronopios

Pictographs ~ 5000 BC

Found upon all corners of a globe as well as still in use between non-literate societies today, pictographs discuss it stories, leave instructions as well as etch internal life. A poignant step towards denunciation as well as art, pictographs served humans need for information exchnage for thousands of years. Photo by Molas

Clay Tablets ~ 4000 BC

In early Mesopotamian societies a clay tablet was a equivalent of a a iPad. It was portable, as well as unlike pictographs, as well as tablets could be dripping in water as well as be reused. It didnt have a DVD expostulate either, but a Sumerians done do. Photo by listentoreason

Hieroglyphs ~ 3000 BC

Many cultures have used graphical figures to promulgate from a Greeks to a Olmecs. The meaning of Egyptian hieroglyphs were a mystery until a early 1800s when a Rosetta Stone was detected as a p! ass to d ecoding a very old language. Photo by mild_swearwords

Papyrus ~ 3000 BC

A precursor to modern paper, papyrus sheets were fashioned from a heart of a papyrus plant, found extravagantly upon a Nile. Indispensable to very old Egypt, papyrus was used to make boats, mattresses, mats, rope, sandals, as well as baskets.


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