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Writing / Palaeography / Calligraphy Timeline Outline

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2,500,000 BCE – 8,000 BCE

Early Attempt to Record Information or Early Art?
(Circa 75,000 BCE – 73,000 BCE)

The Advantages of Orally Transmitted Traditions
(Circa 30,000 BCE)

The Ishango Bone, Possibly One of the Oldest Calendars
(25,000 BCE – 20,000 BCE)

Perhaps the Oldest Map in the World
(10,000 BCE)

In Mesopotamia Neolithic Tokens are Developed for "Concrete" Counting
(Circa 8,000 BCE)

8,000 BCE – 1,000 BCE

The Earliest Known Fermented Beverage
(Circa 7,000 BCE)

In China, Possibly the Earliest Attempt at Writing
(Circa 6,600 BCE)

The Earliest Precursors to Writing in Egypt are Rock Drawings
(Circa 3,750 BCE)

One Theory of the Origins of Egyptian Hieroglyphs
(Circa 3,600 BCE – 3,200 BCE)

<p>Ivory tags from tomb U-j.</p>
The Earliest Known Egyptian Writing
(Circa 3,320 BCE – 3,150 BCE)

Cuneiform Writing in Mesopotomia Begins at Uruk in Association with the…
(Circa 3,200 BCE – 2,900 BCE)

One of the Earliest Surviving Examples of Narrative Relief Sculpture and…
(Circa 3,200 BCE)

The Oldest-Known List of Titles and Occupations
(Circa 3,200 BCE)

<p>Seal impression with the name of Narmer from Tarkhan.</p>
The Earliest Inscription Written in Hieratic
(3,200 BCE)

The Word Bibliography is Derived from a Greek Word for Papyrus
(Circa 3,100 BCE – 3,050 BCE)

A pictographic list of titles and professions in ancient Sumeria (top), with the scribe's signature on the reverse side (bottom.) (View Larger)
The Earliest Autograph Signatures
(Circa 3,100 BCE)

Hammurabi (1792-1750 BCE), the most famous of the early Babylonian kings. (View Larger)
Education in the Bronze Age in the Middle East
(Circa 3,000 BCE – 1,200 BCE)

The Wooden Panels of Hesy-Ra: Government Official, Physician, and Scribe
(Circa 2,600 BCE – 2,500 BCE)

The Sitting Posture of Egyptian Scribes and How They Stored Papyrus Rolls.
(Circa 2,500 BCE)

Pyramid texts located in Teti I's pyramid. (View Larger)
The Oldest Known Religious Texts
(Circa 2,400 BCE – 2,300 BCE)

MS 5106 of the Schoyen Collection, a brick printing block with a large loop handle from the period of Naram-Sîn. (View larger)
The Earliest Printing was Stamped into Soft Clay in Mesopotamia
(Circa 2,291 BCE – 2,254 BCE)

Sides A (left) and B (right) of the Phaistos Disc. (View Larger)
"The World's First Typewritten Document" - James Chadwick
(Circa 2,000 BCE – 1,700 BCE)

Several problems from the Moscow Mathematical Papyrus. (View Larger)
The Older of the Two Best-Known Mathematical Papyri
(Circa 2,000 BCE)

Two Egyptian scribal palettes preserved in the British Museum. (View Larger)
Egyptian Scribal Palettes with Ink Wells and Brushes
(Circa 1,550 BCE – 1450)

In Ancient Egypt Only the "Book of the Dead" Papyri Were Commercially Produced
(Circa 1,550 BCE – 50 BCE)

EA 5645 of the British Museum: the Words of Khakheperresoneb written on a wooden writing board. (View Larger)
Wooden Writing Board Containing Text of the Words of Khakheperresoneb
(Circa 1,500 BCE)

The Proto-Sinaitic Inscriptions, the Earliest Evidence for Alphabetic Writing
(Circa 1,500 BCE)

One of the Earliest Known Examples of Writing in Europe
(Circa 1,490 BCE – 1,390 BCE)

The Ostracon from ‘Izbet Sartah (1200–1000 BCE) showing characters of the Proto-Canaanite alphabet.
The Proto-Canaanite Alphabet
(1,450 BCE – 1,050 BCE)

ME E29785 of the British Museum: A letter from Burnaburiash, a king of the Kassite dynasty of Babylonia, to Amenhotep IV. The tablet is one of the Amarna Letters. (View Larger)
Archive of Egyptian Diplomatic Correspondence Written in the Diplomatic…
(Circa 1,360 BCE – 1,330 BCE)

A self-portrait of the scribe Sesh, arms raised in the presentation of a papyrus scroll and possibly a writing palette. Preserved in the Schoyen Collection as MS 1695. (View Larger)
Self-Portrait of an Egyptian Scribe with his Autograph Signature
(Circa 1,292 BCE – 1,069 BCE)

The Earliest Chinese Inscriptions that are Indisputably Writing
(Circa 1,200 BCE – 1,050 BCE)

A bronze guang, or ritualistic wine vessel, of the Shang dynasty. (View Larger)
The Earliest Chinese Inscriptions in Bronze
(Circa 1,200 BCE – 1,045 BCE)

1,000 BCE – 300 BCE

The Oldest Known Evidence of the Phoenician Alphabet
(Circa 1,000 BCE)

A shard of ancient pottery found in the Elah Fortress, bearing Proto-Canaanite script which might compose the earliest known Hebrew inscription. (View Larger)
Possibly the Earliest Hebrew Inscription
(Circa 1,000 BCE)

The Gezer Calendar
(Circa 950 BCE)

The Cascajal Block, the Earliest Precolumbian or Mesoamerican Writing Yet Discovered
(Circa 950 BCE – 600 BCE)

The "Chicago Syllabary"
(Circa 900 BCE)

Perhaps the Oldest Surviving Tablet with an European Alphabet
(Circa 800 BCE)

The First Olympic Games
(776 BCE)

Homer
Standardization of the Homeric Texts Begins
(Circa 750 BCE)

Achilles
The "Fatal Letter" in the Iliad
(Circa 750 BCE)

The ancient Greek wine jug bearing the Dipylon inscription.
One of the Oldest Records of the Greek Alphabet
(Circa 740 BCE)

The Cup of Nestor. (View Larger)
One of the Oldest Known Examples of Writing in Greek
(Circa 740 BCE – 720 BCE)

The earliest Estruscan abecedarium, the Marsiliana d'Albegna tablet, which dates to c. 700 VCE. (View Larger)
The Marsiliana Tablet Abecedarium
(700 BCE)

The Taylor Prism, ME 91032 of the British Library. (View Larger)
The Taylor Prism and the Sennacherib Prism
(689 BCE – 691 BCE)

Knowledge as Power: The Earliest Systematically Collected Library as Distinct…
(668 BCE – 627 BCE)

The God of Writing. . . .
(Circa 646 BCE)

Pieter Bruegel the Elder, The tower of Babel, ca. 1556
Construction of the Etemenanki Ziggurat, Later Known as The Tower of Babel
(604 BCE – 562 BCE)

The Duenos Inscription
(Circa 550 BCE)

The Yinqueshan bamboo strips, the earliest manuscript of Sun Tzu's 'Art of War,' on exhibition in a Chinese museum. (View Larger)
The Oldest Known Work on Military Strategy
(Circa 550 BCE)

The Greek Origin of Monumental Roman Stone Inscriptions
(Circa 550 BCE)

The front side of the Cyrus Cylinder. (View Larger)
The Earliest Known Document in the History of Religious Toleration
(537 BCE)

The Behistun Inscription. (View Larger)
The Rosetta Stone of Cuneiform Script
(522 BCE – 486 BCE)

Paper in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica
(Circa 500 BCE)

How Herodotus Used Writing and Messages in his Histories
(Circa 450 BCE – 420 BCE)

Socrates on the Invention of Writing and the Relationship of Writing to Memory
(Circa 370 BCE)

The Acropolis stone.
The Earliest Example of Shorthand Writing
(Circa 350 BCE)

The Archives of the Athenian Cavalry
(Circa 350 BCE – 250 BCE)

Writing on Lead Tablets in Antiquity
(Circa 350 BCE – 250 BCE)

Probably the Earliest Surviving Papyrus of a Greek Text
(Circa 350 BCE)

The Earliest Datable Appearance of the Serif in Stone Inscriptions
(334 BCE – 330 BCE)

300 BCE – 30 CE

A column of the Copper Scroll found in Cave Three.
The Dead Sea Scrolls
(300 BCE – 68 CE)

A vertical, columnar stone inscription roughly six inches long. Image: Boris Beltrán/Science. (View Larger)
The Earliest Known Examples of Maya Script
(Circa 300 BCE)

Fragments of the Odyssey, most likely copied in Alexandria.
The Beginnings of Philology
(Circa 280 BCE)

The Oxford fragment of the Parian Marble. (View Larger)
The Earliest Surviving Example of a Greek Chronological Table
(Circa 264 BCE)

An example of Lishu, or Clerkly Script, developed by Chinese Bureaucrats to be written with a brush.
Writing on Bamboo and Silk
(Circa 250 BCE)

A Taoist text preserved on silk and discovered in Mawangui in 1973.
The Mawangui Silk Texts
(Circa 175 BCE)

The Earliest Bookbindings
(Circa 100 BCE)

Vindolanda Tablet 122 with Latin shorthand, possibly notae Tironianae, c.90-130 CE. (View Larger)
Possibly the Earliest System of Shorthand
(63 BCE)

Sling-bolts, or bullets, engraved with a winged lightning-bolt on one side, and the words 'take that' on another. Circa fourth century BCE Athens. (View Larger)
Humorous Inscriptions on Lead Sling-Bolts (Sling Bullets; Slingshot) Reflect…
(41 BCE)

The Earliest Surviving Datable Examples of Rustic Capitals
(31 BCE – 79 CE)

30 CE – 500 CE

The Oldest Surviving Substantial Collection of Buddhist Manuscripts: The…
(Circa 50 CE)

The Alexamenos Grafitto. (View Larger)
Probably the Earliest Surviving Image of the Crucifixion: A Graffito
(Circa 50 CE – 250 CE)

Note-Taking Versus "Place Memory" from Antiquity through the Renaissance and Later
(Circa 50 CE – 1700)

The Role of the "Ordinator" and "Sculptor" in Producing Roman Stone Inscriptions
(Circa 50 CE)

The four authors.
Composition of the Four Gospels
(70 CE – 110 CE)

A fresco of a Pompein couple with stylus, wax tablets, and papyrus scroll, preserved in the Museuo Archeologico Nazionale. (View Larger)
Roman Portraits Celebrating Literacy
(Circa 75 CE)

The Last Known Datable Cuneiform Tablet
(75 CE)

An inscription depicting a contemporaneous politician. (View Larger)
Over 11,000 Wall Inscriptions Survived from Pompeii
(79 CE)

The fragment of De Bellis Macedonicis, the oldest suriving remains of a Latin manuscreipt written on parchment rather than papyrus. (View Larger)
The Sole Surviving Example of Roman Literary Cursive script and the Earliest…
(Circa 100 CE)

Vindolanda Tablet 309, an inventory of wooden goods dispatched dispatched by and to civilians working for the military. (View Larger, with translation.)
The Oldest Surviving Handwritten Documents in Britain
(Circa 100 CE)

The Most Famous Example of Roman Square Capitals
(113 CE)

The Earliest Runic Inscriptions
(Circa 150 CE)

A Door-to-Door Bookseller in Egypt, Second Century CE
(Circa 150 CE)

The Vimose Comb. (View Larger)
The Earliest Known Runic Inscription
(Circa 160 CE)

One of the Oldest Papyrus Codices of the New Testament
(Circa 175 CE – 250 CE)

The Diptych Document Format
(198 CE)

The Earliest Stage of Half-Uncial
(Circa 250 CE – 350 CE)

Death of Wei Tan, Discoverer of Ink
(251 CE)

The Transition from Papyrus to Parchment
(Circa 300 CE – 700)

One of the four leaves of the Vergilius Augusteus that resides in the Vatican Library.(View Larger)
Manuscript Example of Roman Square Capitals and the Earliest Large Ornamented…
(Circa 300 CE)

Costs of Professional Writing Measured by the Normal Length of a Line in a Verse of Virgil
(303 CE)

A Sarcophagus Showing a Greek Physician in His Library
(Circa 320 CE)

The Codex Sinaiticus. (View Larger)
The Codex Sinaiticus
(Circa 350 CE)

The Oldest Surviving Manuscript of the Comedies of Terence
(Circa 350 CE – 450 CE)

A bust of Fronto. (View Larger)
"To Fronto Belongs the Unique Distinction of Surviving Solely as the Lower…
(Circa 350 CE – 475 CE)

The Most Widely Used Medieval Grammar
(Circa 350 CE)

One of the Earliest Treatises on Indian Medicine, Written on Birch Bark
(350 CE – 550)

Title page from the Chronography of 354. (View Larger)
The Earliest Dated Codex with Full-Page Illustrations
(354 CE)

The mentioned diptych, portraying Emperor Honorius in both panels.
The Oldest Surviving Consular Diptych
(406 CE)

500 CE – 600

St. Benedict. (Click to view larger.)
St. Benedict Founds the Abbey at Monte Cassino and Later Formulates his…
(529)

A color plate from Bordier's paleographic study comparing the two separated portions of one of hte earliest suriviving European papyrus codices.
Among the Earliest Surviving European Papyrus Codices
(Circa 550)

An illumination of Christ found in the Rossano Gospels. (Click to view larger.)
One of the Oldest Surviving Illuminated Manuscripts of the New Testament
(Circa 555)

A canon table from Harley 1775, from the British Library. (View Larger)
"Source Z" for the Latin New Testament
(Circa 575 – 599)

Saint Columbanus.
The Monastery and Library at Luxeuil is Founded and Subsequently Sacked,…
(585 – 590)

Folio 129v of the St. Augustine Gospels, depicting Luke. (View Larger)
A Volume Brought by St. Augustine to England in 597
(597)

600 – 700

Tablet 3v of the Springmount Bog Tablets. (National Museum. Dublin, 1914: 2) (View Larger)
The Springmount Bog Wax Tablets
(Circa 600)

A wooden wax tablet with bronze stylus and eraser, originating from Egpyt circa 600. (View Larger)
During the Middle Ages Wax Tablets Are Widely Used
(Circa 610)

Canon 22 of the Council of Nicea II (British Museum, MS Barocci 26, fol. 140b), where the top is written in minuscule and the bottom in unical.(View Larger)
Arab Conquest of Egypt Resulted in Smaller Exports of Papyrus-- A Probable…
(641)

The Oldest Surviving Arabic Papyrus
(642)

The Abbey at Corbie. (View Larger)
Foundation of Corbie Abbey
(659 – 661)

A page from the Ceolfrid Bible. (View Larger)
The Ceolfrid Bible
(Circa 685 – 710)

700 – 800

The First State Libraries in Japan
(702)

The Earliest Surviving Letter Known to Have Been Written from One Englishman to Another
(704 – 705)

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The Earliest Image of a Scribe Using a Writing Table
(Circa 715 – 720)

A painting of St. Benedict drafting the Benedictine Rules, by Herman Nieg, c. 1926. The painting resides in the church of Heiligenkreuz Abbey near Baden bei Wien, Lower Austria. (View Larger)
The Earliest Surviving Copy of St. Benedict's Rules
(Circa 725)

Evidence of the Decline of Literacy Among the Laity in the Early Middle Ages
(Circa 750)

The Earliest Surviving Document of the Christian Book Trade and Stichometry
(Circa 770 – 825)

The Earliest Datable Application of Carolingian Minuscule
(772 – 781)

A page fromt he 'Canones concillorum,' written in both unical and miniscule.(View Larger)
"The Oldest Western European Codex in Private Hands"
(Circa 775)

An example of the Carolingian minuscule, taken from the tenth century Freising manuscripts. (View Larger)
The Educator Alcuin and the Emperor Charlemagne
(780 – 796)

About 7000 Manuscripts and Fragments Survive from the Late 8th and 9th Centuries
(Circa 780 – 875)

The Earliest Example of the Carolingian Illumination Style
(781 – 783)

800 – 900

<p>Example of Carolingian minuscule script.</p>
Adoption of the Carolingian Minuscule
(800 – 830)

<p>The Rök Runestone, believed to be the earliest Sweedish writing, makes reference to Ostrogothic King, Theodoric the Great.</p>
The First Written Swedish Literature
(Circa 800)

A page from the Uspensky Gospels. (View Larger)
The Earliest Surviving Dated Manuscript Written in Greek Minuscule
(815 – 835)

<p>Page from Utretch Psalter.</p>
The Utrecht Psalter
(Circa 816 – 850)

A Studio for Royal Mayan Scribes in the Ninth Century
(Circa 825)

1000 – 1100

Production of Medieval Arabic Manuscripts
(Circa 1025)

More than One Million Charters Survive from the Period of Norman Rule in England
(1066 – 1307)

1100 – 1200

Folio 1 of Codex 2527, preserved at the Austrian National Library. (View Larger)
Medieval Handbook of Applied Arts Including Book Production
(1100 – 1120)

The Earliest Extant Document from Europe Written on Paper
(1109)

Printing in Clay by the Typographic Principle in Germany in 1119
(1119)

Origins of the Paris Book Trade
(Circa 1170)

1200 – 1300

From his book, De arte venandi cum avibus (The art of hunting with birds), a portrait of Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II, flanked by a falcon. (View Larger)
Banning the Use of Paper for Legal Documents
(1231)

The Earliest Surviving German Document Written on Paper
(1246 – 1247)

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139 Professional Scribes Are Working in Bologna
(1265 – 1268)

1300 – 1400

Folio 323r of Codex Manesse: a portrait of Reinmar dictating poetry scribes, one of which bears a wax tablet. (View Larger)
The Use of Manuscript Rolls in the Middle Ages
(Circa 1304 – 1340)

The Oldest Known English Public Advertisement
(Circa 1340)

Zilbaldone
(Circa 1350)

Routine Everyday Messages Inscribed on Rune-Sticks
(Circa 1350)

Scribes in London First Organize
(September 23, 1373)

The Relative Costs of the Components of Medieval Manuscripts
(1374 – 1375)

1400 – 1450

The First Dated Example of Poggio's Humanistic Script
(1408)

1450 – 1500

The first page of Guillelmus Duranti's Rationale divinorum officiorum. (View Larger)
The First Book Set in Fere-Humanistica or Gotico-Antiqua Types
(October 6, 1459)

<p>An engraved portrait of Leon Battista Alberti. Engraved by G. Benaglia and published in the 18th century.</p>
The Alberti Cipher
(1467)

Three Ways that Printing Changed Manuscript Culture
(Circa 1470)

The Earliest Portrait of an Author in a Printed Book
(August 28, 1479)

The Most Complete Pattern Book from Medieval Britain
(Circa 1490)

The Best Medium for Long Term Information Storage
(1494)

1500 – 1550

Pencil 'lead' has never actually contained the metal; its name arrose from a visual similarity between the two substances. (View Larger)
Origins of the Pencil
(Circa 1500 – 1565)

A sample of the humanist script developed by Niccolò de' Niccoli, which became the basis for Francesco Griffo's 'italic' type. (View Larger)
First Book Completely Printed in Italic Type and the First of Aldus's Pocket…
(April 1501)

The First Illustrated Manual on the Art of Writing
(1514)

The 'square table' of abbot Johannes Trithemius’s 'Polygraphiae libri sex. - Clavis polygraphiae' was an example of how a message might be encoded through the use of multiple alphabets. (View Larger)
The First Book on Cryptography
(July 1518)

The First Manual on Humanistic Cursive
(1522 – 1524)

Masterpiece of High Renaissance Manuscript Illumination
(1546)

1550 – 1600

The First Book Printed in Civilité Types
(1557)

Destruction of the Maya Codices
(July 12, 1562)

The Earliest Description of the Printing Process
(1567)

The Vigenere Cipher
(1586)

1600 – 1650

Erasable Paper from 1609
(1609)

The First History of Writing
(1617)

The First Study of Runestones and Runic Inscriptions
(1641)

1650 – 1700

Working Around the English Monopoly on Solid Graphite
(1662)

The First Book on the Detection of Forged Documents
(1666)

The Beginning of Palaeography
(1675)

Foundation of Palaeography and Diplomatics
(1681)

Locke's Method of Indexing Commonplace Books
(1685 – 1706)

1700 – 1750

The Word Palaeography Coined
(1708)

Possibly the Earliest Reference to a Fictional Device that Resembles a Modern Computer
(1726)

The First Book Printed by Muslims Using Movable Type
(1729)

The First Continent-Wide Union Catalogue of Manuscripts
(1739)

1750 – 1800

The First Discovery of Ancient Papyri in Europe
(October 19, 1752 – 1754)

Invention of the Rubber Eraser
(April 15, 1770)

The First English History of Paleography and Diplomatics
(1784)

The First System of Shorthand Used Throughout the English Speaking World
(1786)

The Beginnings of Papyrology
(1788)

Invention of Modern Pencil Lead
(1795)

The Poetry of Homer as a Product of Oral Tradition
(1795)

The Rosetta Stone
(July 15, 1799)

1800 – 1850

Gradual Disappearance of the Long S in Typography
(Circa 1800 – 1820)

Invention of Carbon Paper
(1806)

"Egyptian": The First Commercially Produced Sans-Serif Typeface
(1816)

Foundation of the Ecole nationale des chartes
(February 22, 1821)

Invention of the Mechanical Pencil
(December 20, 1822)

Typing a Letter Takes Longer than Writing by Hand
(1829)

The Penny Post: Perhaps the Greatest Single Stimulus to Written Communication
(1837 – 1840)

Pitman Shorthand, & The First "Correspondence Course"
(1837)

Probably the World's Oldest Picture Postcard
(1840)

The Penny Black
(May 1, 1840)

Invention of Anastatic Printing
(October 1841 – October 25, 1845)

Spencerian Script
(Circa 1848 – 1920)

1850 – 1875

Invention of the Micropantograph
(1852 – 1862)

The First Device to Allow the Operator to Write Faster than a Person Writing by Hand
(1868)

The First QWERTY Keyboard
(1873 – 1874)

1875 – 1900

The Electric Pen
(1875)

Allowing the Typing of Both Upper and Lower Case Letters
(1878)

Edison Describes Future Uses for his Phonograph
(June 1878)

Development of an Efficiently Functioning Fountain Pen
(Circa February 12, 1884)

The Berne Convention
(September 9, 1886)

Gregg Shorthand
(1888)

The Telautograph
(July 31, 1888)

The Palmer Method
(1894)

Lewis Carroll Wrote or Received 98,000 Letters
(January 14, 1898)

1930 – 1940

The First Commercially Successful Ballpoint Pen
(1931 – June 15, 1938)

The First Commercially Successful Electric Typewriter
(1933)

1940 – 1950

Sealing of the Crypt of Civlization
(May 25, 1940)

A Typewriter with Proportional Spacing
(1941)

1950 – 1960

The Bic Pen
(1950)

Chartae Latinae Antiquiores
(1954)

1960 – 1970

One of the Earliest Computer Text Editors
(December 1960)

Precursor of Word Processing and Email
(1961)

The First Word Processing Program
(1961 – 1962)

The Beginning of "Word Processing"
(1964)

One of the Earliest Tablet Computers and the First Reference to Electronic Ink
(August 1964)

TYPESET and RUNOFF: Text Formatting Program and Forerunner of Word Processors
(November 6, 1964)

Email Begins
(1965)

Hypertext, Text Editing, Windows, Email and a Mouse
(December 8, 1968)

Generalized Markup Language is Introduced
(Circa 1969)

1970 – 1980

The @ in Email
(March 1971)

The First Email Management Program
(July 1971)

First Electronic Pagination System, Forerunner of Email and Instant Messaging
(1973)

The First Word Processing Program for a Personal Computer
(1976)

First CRT Based Word Processor
(June 1976)

1980 – 1990

Origins of the Smiley on the Internet
(September 19, 1982)

The Earliest Fictional Treatment of Word Processing by a Prominent Literary Author
(January 1983)

Microsoft Word 1.0
(September 1983)

The First Gateways Between Private E-Mail Carriers and the Internet
(1989)

1990 – 2000

The Unicode Standard: Now 107,000 Charcters in 90 Scripts
(October 1991)

More Email is Sent than Paper Mail
(1996)

Speech Recognition Technology from 6,700 Characters
(1996)

The Average Person Receives 733 Pieces of Paper Mail Each Year, Half of Which is Junk
(1998)

"You've Got Mail"
(1998)

2000 – 2005

High Density Rosetta Archival Preservation Technology
(2001)

Over 500,000 Egyptian Papyri Survive
(2002)

8,000,000 U.S. Blogs
(November 2004)

2005 – 2010

Making Handwritten Manuscripts Searchable
(February 9, 2006)

Google Apps are Introduced
(August 2006)

Web-Footed?
(September 2006)

In 2007 There Were 12,000,000 U.S. Blogs
(February 2007)

An Encyclopedia with More than Ten Million Articles
(October 27, 2008)

Virtual Reunification of the Codex Sinaiticus
(July 6, 2009)

Algorithm to Decipher Ancient Texts
(September 2, 2009)

2010 – 2011

World Texting Competition is Won by Koreans
(January 14, 2010)

2011 – 2013

A Program for Signing and Inscribing Ebooks
(April 2011)

The First Book Stored in DNA and then Read
(August 16, 2012)

2013 – Present

The First 3D Printing Pen; Drawing Enters the Third Dimension
(February 2013)