How to play the Techonological Innovations timeline game

Techonological Innovations is a free timeline game you can play right in your browser, with no sign-up and nothing to install. Every card hides a value on the same scale, release years and dates, so the whole run is really one big sorting puzzle. The first card comes up face up. After that you slot each new card into the spot where you think it belongs, and its value only shows once it lands. Guess wrong three times and the run ends with whatever you had down.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 18 of the 18 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

Telephone Alexander Graham Bell: "Mr Watson--come here--I want to see you"
Telegraph Samuel Morse: "What hath God wrought"
Printing Press Johannes Gutenberg: printed the Bible using moveable type
Radio Guglielmo Marconi: sent the letter "S" in Morse code across the Atlantic
Television Philo T Farnsworth: transmitted a horizontal line
Movies Lumiere Brothers: first public screening of films
First Digital Computer John Atanasoff: Iowa State
First Arcade Videogame Atari: Pong
Arpanet 2 computers talk to each other, one at Stanford, one at UCLA
Atari 2600 The first console with joysticks, multi colored games, and interchangeable game cartridges
iPhone Not the first smart phone, but wildly popular
Gameboy Nintendo: popularized handheld gaming. Tetris!
iPod Not the first portable mp3 player, but the most popular one.
CDs Only plays one album, but no ads and no subscription fees!
Cassette tapes Analog magnetic tape that you can record and play back music
Phonograph Thomas Edison: Crank it to record and play music
LP (record) CBS produced the first 12 inch, 33-PRM vinyl record.
World Wide Web Tim Berners-Lee turns the World Wide Web over to the Public Domain