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Tradition dates the script to the seventh century and to Thonmi Sambhota’s study in India, and the earliest surviving inscriptions, on the pillars of Lhasa, are from the following century. The script was standardised in the ninth century along with the language of translation, adapted to the woodblock from the fourteenth, and cast in metal type only in the twentieth. Its move onto the screen, with Unicode in the 1990s and usable fonts a decade later, is the latest chapter.
This page will tell that history with examples from each period.