It’s no secret that technology rules much of our modern lives. How many of us would be lost without our smartphones or helpless at home without basics like electricity and running water? But before our modern luxuries, technology played a huge role in shaping our very society. Here are three of the many inventions that forever changed the world and shaped it into the one we live in today.
The printing press. Just about anything imaginable, any human endeavour you can dream of, requires some form of communication. In 1448 Johann Gutenberg invented the printing press and made mass communication a possibility for the first time. Prior to the invention of the printing press books were hand printed rarity, severely restricting the spread of ideas.
The telegraph. The 1830s and 1840s saw the development of efficient and expedient long distance communication thanks to Samuel Morse and his invention of the telegraph and Morse code. Near instantaneous communication would prove to be a game changer and the basis of all communication to come.
The internet. While the internet was definitely a collaborative effort, it’s thanks largely to the contributions of Vincent Cerf and Robert Kahn, who invented the TCP/IP protocols adopted by ARPANET in 1983, that we owe the backbone of our modern internet. Used primarily by the US government until its commercialization in the 1990s.
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