My favorite piece of tecnology: ἀλφάβετον

I want to talk about the alphabet. A greek name to letters, if you mix them with sense, you can make words.
The greek took it from the fenician in a place who was known like Biblos, and they transformed it, they change the direction of write of some letters, others became in vowels, and they also generalized the writting from the left to the right.
About the latin alpabeth... the etruscans took it from the greek, but in many years they appropiated it, they changed many letters and in the first century of our era, with the Roman Empire expantion and then the christianism, 23 letters conquered the mediterranean lands, every Europe, and finally, all the occidental world.
The spanish alphabet is build with 27 letters. The visigods took it from the latin alphabet, and with Alfonso X, the wise, King of Castilla in medieval times, use the spanish romance language to speak and write and the castillan law, and also for the translation of many books from antiques times.
It came to the life of the life to the Viewer at the age of 5, when she was a little girl, and she used it every day, and right now. She learnt about the importance of it only when was 18, in a History class, then she realized about her life as she know it, with out the alphabet, it could be almost impossible. That's why she thought write about it as a simple tribute.
Finally, is necessary to say, that this invention who was born in Mesopotamia about 1500 years before Christ, for the need to count things who exist, it was a revolution to handle information, the communication and to make visible things in an abstract sense and easy way. and also let it for the Human History.