The Evolution of Media Devices

By labli
  • 2400 BCE

    Clay Tablets: Personal Insights

    Clay Tablets: Personal Insights
    Personal Insights:
    For me, clay tables around that year was very useful for writing or record keeping as we all know it was so hard to write because in that year it still lack devices that can help them. However, I can see that it is hard to use it, if I were able to use clay tablets I'm pretty sure it will hard for me.
  • 2400 BCE

    Pre-Historic Age: Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia

    Description:
    Clay Tablets were developed in Mesopotamia, it was created around 2100-2000 BC in Southern Iraq, then it was first developed around 3200 B.C. by Sumerian scribes in the ancient city-state of Uruk, in present-day Iraq, as a means of recording transactions, cuneiform writing was created by using a reed stylus to make wedge-shaped indentations in clay tablets. Clay tablets were used used for over 3,000 years. Around 2400 BC it was used for writing and record keeping.
  • 59 BCE

    Pre-Historic Age: Acta Diurna in Rome

    Pre-Historic Age: Acta Diurna in Rome
    Description:
    Acta Diurna is a daily gazette or the daily Roman notices, it recorded official business and matters of public interest. It is the first newspaper that was created around 59 BCE, it was found by Julius Caesar.
  • 53 BCE

    Acta Diurna in Rome: Personal Insights

    Acta Diurna in Rome: Personal Insights
    Personal Insights:
    In my own opinion, the acta diurna is very complicated to understand but still it is very helpful for the people in 53 BCE since they really need a device to help them to have a information, and to be updated.
  • Industrial Age: Typewriter

    Industrial Age: Typewriter
    Description:
    Typewriter is a machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto the paper. It was made in U.S 1868 by Christopher Latham Sholes, Carlos Glidden, and Samuel W. Soule.
  • Typewriter: Personal Insights

    Typewriter: Personal Insights
    Personal Insights:
    Well, I must sat that the typewriter is the best and very easy useful device for communication or for information.
  • Industrial Age: Telegraph

    Industrial Age: Telegraph
    Description:
    Telegraph is a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection, it is where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. It was developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse and by other inventors.
  • Telegraph: Personal Insights

    Telegraph: Personal Insights
    Personal Insights:
    From my point of view, telegraph is very useful and helpful but then I think it is very difficult to use it because the language is in morse code that is very hard to understand.
  • Electronic Age: Television

    Electronic Age: Television
    Description:
    Television was implemented in the U.S (United States) 1941. Electrical engineer Benjamin Adler plated a prominent role in the development of television. It is an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with a sound over a wire.
  • Television: Personal Insights

    Television: Personal Insights
    Personal Insights:
    Personally, if I were to asked, television is my most favorite because it is a entertainment for me because of it's moving images and sounds.
  • Electronic Age: Transistor Radio

    Electronic Age: Transistor Radio
    Description:
    Transistor radio was fist developed in 1948, it had a profound impact on the electronics industry, it is a small radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. The transistors use it to amplify the sound.
  • Transistor Radio: Personal Insights

    Transistor Radio: Personal Insights
    Personal Insights:
    In my opinion, transistor radio do have a very useful communication in the 1948 especially if most of people in that year are needing of a update.
  • Digital Age: Friendster

    Digital Age: Friendster
    Description:
    Friendster was a social network game based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003, this helps people around the world to talk with each other or communicate easily through network. But, unfortunately friendster isn't available in the present year since it was closed because it was overtaken by Myspace and Facebook.
  • Digital Age: Friendster

    Digital Age: Friendster
    Description:
    Friendster was a social network game based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003, this helps people around the world to talk with each other or communicate easily through network. But, unfortunately friendster isn't available in the present year since it was closed because it was overtaken by Myspace and Facebook.
  • Friendster: Personal Insights

    Friendster: Personal Insights
    Personal Insights:
    I must say, friendster is beneficial in 2003 because a lot of people were communicating easily in just one click, Plus, you can meet a lot of people in different countries.
  • Microblogs; Twitter: Personal Insights

    Microblogs; Twitter: Personal Insights
    Personal Insights:
    I believe, nowadays twitter is the most entertaining especially among the teenagers because it have the most entertaining activities, you can communicate worldwide with people, tweet/post about something or anything you want, it also provides a information about anything, that is why it is significant and entertaining.
  • Digital Age: Microblogs; Twitter

    Digital Age: Microblogs; Twitter
    Description:
    Twitter is a service for friends, family, and coworkers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People post Tweets, which may contain photos, videos, links, and text. These messages are posted to your profile, sent to your followers, and are searchable on Twitter search. It was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year.