STS

• Sumerian writing system used pictographs to represent words

  3000 BC
• Beginnings of Egyptian hieroglyphic writing

  2900 BC
• Tortoise shell and oracle bone writing were used

  1300 BC
• Papyrus roll was used

  500 BC
• Chinese small seal writing was developed

  220 BC
• Book (parchment codex)


  100 AD
• Woodblock printing and paper was invented by the Chinese

  105 AD
• Johannes Gutenberg invented the printing press using movable metal type


  1455
• Samuel Johnson's dictionary standardized English spelling

  1755
• The Library of Congress was established

  1802
• Invention of the carbon arc lamp

  1802
• Research on persistence of vision published


  1824
• First viable design for a digital computer

  1830s
• Augusta Lady Byron writes the world's first computer program

  1830s
• Invention of the telegraph in Great Britain and the Unites States

  1837
• Motion pictures were projected on a screen


  1861
• Dewey Decimal system was introduced


  1876
• Eadweard Muybridge demonstrated high-speed photography


  1877
• First magnetic recordings were released

  1899
• Motion picture special effects were used


  1902
• Lee DeForest invented the electronic amplifying tube (triode)


  1906
• Television camera tube was invented by Zvorkyn


  1923
• First practical sound movie

  1926
• Regularly scheduled television broadcasting began in the US

  1939
• Beginnings of information science as a discipline

  1940s
• Vannevar Bush foresaw the invention of hypertext


  1945
• ENIAC computer was developed

  1946
• Birth of field-of-information theory proposed by Claude E. Shannon


  1948
• Planar transistor was developed by Jean Hoerni


  1957
• First integrated circuit


  1958
• Library of Congress developed LC MARC (machine-readable code)


  1960s
• UNIX operating system was developed, which could handle multitasking


  1969
• Intel introduced the first microprocessor chip


  1971
• Optical laserdisc was developed by Philips and MCA


  1972
• MCA and Philips agreed on a standard videodisc encoding format


  1974
• Altair Microcomputer Kit was released: first personal computer for the public


  1975
• RadioShack introduced the first complete personal computer

  1977
• Apple Macintosh computer was introduced


  1984
• Artificial intelligence was separated from information science

  Mid 1980s
• Hypercard was developed by Bill Atkinson recipe box metaphor


  1987