Want to know technology? Let me tell you the history of technology!
Technology dates back 3 million years! Lots of technology has been developed, from stone axes to mobile phones nowadays. 3 million years ago it started from sharp bits of rock to hunt animals. And finally 2 million years later, 1 million years ago an important thing was made, namely fire. During those 1 million years, we don’t know what technology was made, for sure it was 20-15 thousand years ago that the Neotilic revolution occurred.
This revolution changed humans whose food source was only hunting, but now humans can farm, humans now gather in one place, and clothes from woven fabrics. From 6000-1200 BC there were very revolutionary innovations, irrigation, sailing, iron. By sailing humans can start looking for new islands, new places to live. Iron production is increasing because the number of sources is very large and easy to process. In 950, the windmill was finally invented. Windmills may seem like an ordinary thing, but they could be used in future technology. The year 1044 the compass was invented, with this navigation even easier.
In 1250-1300 invented one of the important things of technology, the mechanical clock. Mechanical clocks are easier and simpler than sundials. In 1445, printing was invented by Johannes Gutenberg with the world’s first printing of the Bible. 320 years later, the steam engine was invented. Although it can make pollution, but the world of machines will rule the world. This innovation was followed by trains using steam engines and steamships. The world of photography was born in 1826/27 with the first photos made by Nicephore Niepce. The telegraph was born in 1844. With this, long-distance communication required an easier time than riding a horse to the desired location.
1876, surviving millions of years, a new means of communication was born, the telephone. Goodbye telegraph and welcome telephone, with this telephone communication is much easier. 1879, the electric light was born which would illuminate the world thousands of years later. The car was born in 1885, with this we don’t need horse transportation. In 1901, radio was born, with this, the Indonesian proclamation could be heard throughout Indonesia.
In 1903, the airplane was born, with this long-distance inter-island transportation was born. The rocket is the most expensive means of transportation, and the most complicated of all, it took years to make it and with the aim to the moon in 1926. Exactly one year later, television was born, if radio has satisfied you, then television will make you much more satisfied, because with this you don’t just hear. But can see and hear too!. 1937 was the birth of the computer, with this computer we can create websites like this! But computers would become personal computers in 1974 by Apple. And that same year the internet was born. Until 2023, AI is starting to become something that everyone needs.
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