Evolution of Media

  • 35,000 BCE

    Cave Paintings

    Cave Paintings
    Are a type of parietal art, found on the wall or ceilings of cave. The term usually implies pre-historic origin but cave paintings can also be of recent production.
  • 2500 BCE

    Papyrus in Egypt

    Papyrus in Egypt
    Is first known to have been used in Egypt as the papyrus plant was once abundant across the Nile Delta. It was also throughout the Meditteranean region in the Kingdom of Kush.
  • 2400 BCE

    Clay tablets in Mesopotamia

    Clay tablets in Mesopotamia
    In the Ancient near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing cuneiform, throughout the bronze age and well imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of.
  • 1900 BCE

    Printing Press for Mass Production

    Printing Press for Mass Production
    Is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth) thereby transferring ink.
  • 1800 BCE

    Type writer

    Type writer
    Is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type.
  • 1640 BCE

    Newspaper-The London Gazette

    Newspaper-The London Gazette
    Is one of the official journals of record of the British government and the most important among such official journal in United Kingdom.
  • 500 BCE

    Codex in Mayan Region

    Codex in Mayan Region
    Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books written by the pre-columbian maya civilization in maya hieroghypic script on mesoamerican back paper.
  • 220 BCE

    Printing press using woodblocks

    Printing press using woodblocks
    Is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China.
  • 200 BCE

    Dibao in China

    Dibao in China
    This is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world during West Han time.
  • 130 BCE

    Acta Diurna in Roma

    Acta Diurna in Roma
    Translated as daily Public Records were daily Roman Officials Notice 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.
  • Pre-Industrial Age

    Pre-Industrial Age
    Refers to the social attributes and forms of political and cultural organization.
  • Industrial age

    Industrial age
    Is a period of history that encompasses the charges in economic and social organization that began around 1700 in great britain and later in other countries characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power driven machines.
  • Punch card

    Punch card
    Is a card perforated according to a code for controlling the operation of machine used in voting machine and formerly in programming and entering data into computer.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    Is a national british daily broadsheet newspaper published in london.
  • Virtual reality

    Virtual reality
    Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment. It incorporates mainly auditory and visual feedback, but may also allow other types of sensory feedback like haptic. This immersive environment can be similar to the real world or it can be fantastical. Augmented reality systems may also be considered a form of VR that layers virtual information over a live camera feed into a headset or through a smartphone.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far to be heard directly.
  • Motion Picture Photography/Projection

    Motion Picture Photography/Projection
    Film or movie series of still photograph on film,projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light.
  • Social network

    Social network
    A social network is a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. The social network perspective provides a set of methods for analyzing the structure of whole social entities as well as a variety of theories explaining the patterns observed in these structures.[1]
  • Information age

    Information age
    The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a historic period in the 21st century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology. The onset of the Information Age is associated with the Digital Revolution, just as the Industrial Revolution marked the onset of the Industrial Age.[1]
  • commercial motion pictures

    commercial motion pictures
    Art of motion pictures feels that the greatest films are the artistic and personal expression of strong directions comprises the technological and commercial institution of filmmaking.
  • Electronic Age

    Electronic Age
    The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the radio, electronic circuits and early computers
  • Motion picture with sound

    Motion picture with sound
    Is a motion picture iwth sychronized sound or sound technologically coupled to image as opposed to a silent film.
  • Television

    Television
    is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television program ("TV show"), or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment and news.
  • Transistor radio

    Transistor radio
    is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions[1] manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • Large Electronic computers

    Large Electronic computers
    ENIAC was designed and primarily used to calculate artillery firing tables for the United States Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory,[5][6] its first program was a study of the feasibility of the thermonuclear weapon.
  • Main frame computers

    Main frame computers
    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. They are larger and have more processing power than some other classes of computers: minicomputers, servers, workstations, and personal computers.
  • HP, LCD projectors

    HP, LCD projectors
    The technology was invented in the 1960s with the aid of George H. Heilmeier and John A. van Raalte, electrical engineers who worked at Radio Corporation of America. When RCA announced their invention in May of 1968, the following day the New York Times wrote, “Among the benefits that might ultimately result from the development are: A thin television screen that can be hung on the living-room wall like a painting.
  • Personal computers

    Personal computers
    is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use.[1] PCs are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or technician. Computer time-sharing models that were typically used with larger, more expensive minicomputer and mainframe systems, to enable them be used by many people at the same time, are not used with PCs.
  • Video

    Video
    Video is an electronic medium for the recording, copying, playback, broadcasting, and display of moving visual media.
    Video was first developed for mechanical television systems, which were quickly replaced by cathode ray tube (CRT) systems which were later replaced by flat panel displays of several types.
  • Web browser

    Web browser
    A web browser (commonly referred to as a browser) is a software application for accessing information on the World Wide Web. Each individual web page, image, and video is identified by a distinct URL, enabling browsers to retrieve and display them on the user's device.
  • Mosaic

    Mosaic
    NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, 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.[3] Its intuitive interface, reliability, Microsoft Windows port and simple installation all contributed to its popularity within the web, as well as on Microsoft operating systems.[4
  • Yahoo

    Yahoo
    Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.
  • Internet explorer

    Internet explorer
    Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year.
  • Blog

    Blog
    A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog")[1] is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page.
  • Google

    Google
    Google LLCis an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. Together they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock.
  • Live journal

    Live journal
    LiveJournal (Russian: Живой Журнал)[4], stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary.
  • Blogspot

    Blogspot
    Blogger 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. The blogs are hosted by Google and generally accessed from a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be served from a custom domain owned by the user (like www.example.com) by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers.
  • Friendster

    Friendster
    Friendster was a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was originally a social networking service website.[3][4] Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.[5] The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies.
  • Wordpress

    Wordpress
    WordPress (WordPress.org) is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.[4] Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It is most associated with blogging, but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores. Used by more than 60 million websites.
  • Skype

    Skype
    Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones.Skype additionally provides instant messaging services. Users may transmit both text and video messages, and may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    YouTube, LLC is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    Twitter, Inc. (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean.[13] Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message Service.
  • Tumblr

    Tumblr
    Tumblr (stylized as tumblr) is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc.The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private.For bloggers many of the website's features are accessed from a "dashboard" interface.
  • Google hangouts

    Google hangouts
    Google Hangouts is a communication platform developed by Google which includes messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP features. It replaces three messaging products that Google had implemented concurrently within its services, including Google Talk, Google+ Messenger (formerly: Huddle), and Hangouts, a video chat system present within Google+. Google has also stated that Hangouts is designed to be "the future" of its telephony product, Google Voice, and has already integrated.
  • Micro blogs

    Micro blogs
    micro.blog is a microblogging and social networking service created by Manton Reece. It was launched on April 24, 2017, after a Kickstarter campaign that reached its funding target within one day.[1][2] Micro.blog is the first large multi-user social media service to support the Webmention and Micropub protocols standardized by the World Wide Web Consortium.[3]