Evolution of Media

Cave Painting

35,000 BCE

They are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, dated to some 40,000 years ago (around 38,000 BCE) in Eurasia.

Papyrus in Egypt

2500 BCE

Papyrus is first known to have been used inancient Egypt (at least as far back as the First Dynasty), as the papyrus plant was once abundant across the Nile Delta.

Clay Tablet in Mesopotamia

2400 BCE

were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. It is more or less a flat surface made of clay

Dibao in China

206 BCE

The Chinese “Dibao” is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world.

Acta Diurna in Rome

130 BCE

were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette. They were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places like the Forum of Rome. They were also called simply Acta.

Printing Press Using Wood Block

220

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper

Newspaper

1640

s a periodical publication containing written information about current events.can cover wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sport and art and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns.

INDUSTRIAL AGE

1700

People use the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products

Typewriter

1800

is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type. A typewriter operates by means of keys that strike a ribbon to transmit ink or carbon impressions onto paper.

Telegraph

1830

is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic (as opposed to verbal or audio) messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not.

Printing Press for Mass Production

1843

A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. This was a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in which the cloth, paper or other medium was brushed or rubbed repeatedly to achieve the transfer of ink, and accelerated the process

Telephone

1876

is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user.

Motion Picture Photography

1890

Motion picture theory is simple and clear-cut. Motion film is composed of a series of still pictures. When the still pictures are projected progressively and rapidly onto a screen, the eye perceives motion, hence they become a motion picture.

Punch Cards

1900

s a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. The information might be data for data processing applications or, in earlier examples, used to directly control automated machinery.

Commercial Motion Picture

1913

is a series of still images that when shown on a screen create an illusion of motion images (due to the phi phenomenon). This optical illusion causes the audience to perceive continuous motion between separate objects viewed rapidly in succession

Motion On Picture With Sound

1926

s a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film.

ELECTRONIC AGE

1930

the invention of the transistor ushered in ten electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistors radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this age long distance communication became more efficient.

OHP Projector

1938

for projecting onto a vertical screen magnified images of graphic material on a horizontal transparency illuminated from below — called also overhead

Television

1941

is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome, or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

Transistor Radio

1947

A portable radio using circuits containing transistors rather than vacuum tubes.

EDSAC

1949

Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, the first full-size stored-program computer, built at the University of Cambridge, Eng., by Maurice Wilkes and others to provide a formal computing service for users

Mainframe Computers

1960

are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing.

Packard 9100

1968

is an early computer (or programmable calculator), first appearing in 1968. HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. Therefore decided to call it a calculator, and all such nonsense disappeared.

Microsoft

1975

s a leading global vendor of computer software; hardware for computer, mobile and gaming systems; and cloud services.

Personal Computers

1980

is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use. PCs are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or technician.

Laptop

1980

often called a notebook or "notebook computer", is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor, an alphanumeric keyboard on the lower part of the "clamshell" and a thin LCD or LED computer screen on the upper part, which is opened up to use the computer.

INFORMATION AGE

1981

The internet pave the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network. People advance the use of microelectronics with the inventions of personal computers, mobile devices, wearable technology. Moreover voice, image, sound, and data are digitalized. We are now living in the digital age.

LCD Projector

1984

a type of video projector for displaying video, images or computer data on a screen or other flat surface. It is a modern equivalent of the slide projector or overhead projector

Mosaic

1993

is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet. It was also a client for earlier internet protocols such as File Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol, and Gopher. The browser was named for its support of multiple internet protocols.

Tablets

1993

is a wireless, portable personal computer with a touchscreen interface. The tablet form factor is typically smaller than a notebook computer, but larger than a smartphone.

Internet Explorer

1995

is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.

Yahoo!

1995

is an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine and a directory of World Wide Web sites organized in a hierarchy of topic categories.

Smartphones

1995

is a cellular telephone with an integrated computer and other features not originally associated with telephones, such as an operating system, Web browsing and the ability to run software applications.

Google

1996

is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware

Livejournal

1999

is a unique place where people share their life stories, give advice and exchange ideas

Blogspot

1999

is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003

Friendster

2002

was a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was originally a social networking service website. Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.

Multiply

2003

was a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share media – such as photos, videos and blog entries – with their "real-world" network.

Skype

2003

is an IP telephony service provider that offers free calling between subscribers and low-cost calling to people who don't use the service. In addition to standard telephone calls, Skype enables file transfers, texting, video chat and videoconferencing

WordPress

2003

is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.[4] To function, WordPress has to be installed on a web server, which would either be part of an Internet hosting service or a network host in its own right

Facebook

2004

is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues.

Youtube

2005

is a video sharing service that allows users to watch videos posted by other users and upload videos of their own.

Twitter

2006

is a free social networking microblogging service that allows registered members to broadcast short posts called tweets. ... Tweets, which may include hyperlinks, are limited to 140 characters, due to the constraints of Twitter's Short Message Service (SMS) delivery system

Tumblr

2007

is a popular micro blogging platform designed for creative self-expression. It is considered a mindful alternative to Facebook and other social media websites

Netbook

2008

is a small, light, low-power notebook computer that has less processing power than a full-sized laptop but is still suitable for word processing, running a Web browser and connecting wirelessly to the Internet. Netbooks fall into a category of what vendors refer to as “small form” computers.

Google Hangouts

2013

is a unified communications service that allows members to initiate and participate in text, voice or video chats, either one-on-one or in a group

Virtual Reality

2016

is an artificial environment that is created with software and presented to the user in such a way that the user suspends belief and accepts it as a real environment. On a computer, virtual reality is primarily experienced through two of the five senses: sight and sound