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The paintings inside the caves date back to about 30,000 years

ago and are for the most part painting of animals.

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Earliest cave paintings of animal discovered in Indonesia, dating back 40,000 years

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At this time, the alphabet was not yet created. People were representing what they knew by painting on the inside of the caves (most of the time it was animals). This was the first written technology.

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25,000 years later, in southern Mesopotamia: Sumerians wrote on clay tablets and baked them. These tablets contained pictographs that represent the object of communication.

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I've documented my process of making a clay tablet. Watching this will be a lot like spending three minutes watching a cat clean itself. Yawn.

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These clay tablets allowed for individuals to record who and what was significant. It helped social interactions, because people would be able to interact with other human beings on these tablets.

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Around 3000 BCE, Cuneiform was invented. It is a system where words represent concepts.

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This system reduces the number of possible symbols a person has to interpret, which facilitates the writing and reading process.

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By 2000BCE, this writing was becoming a full alphabet and people were starting to depict their ideas.

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full script of cunieform

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By this time, a full alphabet was being created. This would eventually allow for full communication by means of the written technology. People would now be able to express their feelings, emotions by writing them down.

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By 1000 BCE , a person would be able to write a love letter to another person.

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This technology changed social communications because now people were able to talk to their loved ones by sending letters, and it was an easier way to communicate. It changed social interaction because there was another way that people were able to talk to their partners rather than talking face-to-face.

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In the year 700BCE, the Greeks invented an alphabetic system, which reduced the symbols to 24 characters.

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Greek Language History and Origin - World History for Kids | Educational Videos by Mocomi

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The greek alphabet has been used since 900 BC to write the Greek Language . It is the first writing system using a separate symbol for each vowel and consonant and the oldest alphabetic system that is still in use. Greek Letters are an important technology used for writing modern greek and symbols in mathematics and science.

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By the years 1200-1299, the invention of space between words has been used by many people who would write texts.

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Line spacing was an important technology because it helped people better read texts or even letters. This helped the social interactions, because people would be able to read faster and to understand better as well.

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By the fourteenth century, paragraphs and chapters were invented.

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This technology plays an important role in the organization of books, which are important resources for knowledge and entertainment

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By the 1450's, the printing press was invented by Johannes Gutenberg, this also created an increase in the production of books.

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The printing press was an important technology because people were able to get information on the streets more efficiently. It helped social interactions because people would be able to print faster, and therefore be able to communicate with a lot more people.

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In 1941, Fraktur (or Blackletter), a difficult to read calligraphic font, was officially considered Judenlettern (Jewish letters). This determined how easy or not a text was to read which affects how the information was processed (standardization).

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We use this written technology  mostly for decorative typesetting (i.e. traditional German newspapers such as the Frankfurter Allgemeine). The use of this Latin script for German language will also promote its infestation with foreign words.

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For thousand of years Chinese characters remained logographic. As well as the Roman alphabet.

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These two types of characters the Chinese characters and roman alphabet used by the ancient Romans as well as the Chinese characters as called Hanzi. It is known for the system of writing.

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The first smart phone was invented in 1992 by IBM. A smart phone is a mobile phone that can work as a computer but are mobile devices.

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In 2007, electronic books were being written on this new medium for the first time in history. The majority of the human population owns a cellphone thus have access to books.

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Smart phones are important because they allow individuals to connect with other people at all times. With its computer function, it allows people to gain knowledge and further their resources.

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In 2015, James Adelman and Hills discovered that the written word in American English continued to evolve in the past 200 years.

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The evolution of the English language over the last centuries.