dates

• 35 000 BCE

  scribbles and symbols
• 3 000 BCE --> cuneiform

  • on tablets of rock
  • drawings
  • middle east
  • only in 19th century strated to excavate them
• 35 000 BCE -->proto-indo-european society

  • poets and singers paid for literature
• 1000 BCE --> bible was written

  • by diff. people (prophets)
  • old and new bible
• 7th -9th century --> woodblocks
• 15th century --> Gutenberg invented a movable stamp
• anglo-saxon litterature 


  1. age of performance (storytelling, poetry, oral)
  2. age of representation (written and physical)
  3. age of connection (worldwide, instant, new)
• 2007 - kindle
• 2003 - laser printer
• 1985 - apple and microsoft
• 1981 - internet
• 1951 - inkjet
• 1829 - braille