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1500
Printing Press using wood blocks
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.
Reflection: People during this stage are not just creative, ingenious but crafty. -
1500
Cave Paintings
In prehistoric art, the term "cave painting" encompasses any parietal art which involves the application of colour pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters.
Reflection: At an early age, people during this time are creative to do some paintings on caves to store information. -
1500
Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia
According to Mesopotamian beliefs, writing is considered to be a gift of the gods, and as such, writing means both power and knowledge.Mesopotamian scribes recorded on clay tablets - daily events, trade, the numbers of sheep, cattle, crops, laborers in the workforce, because trade and economic necessities were likely the biggest motivators for writing.
Reflection: During this time, people in Mesopotamia are ingenious for they make wedge shaped marks in the clay. -
Period: 1500 to
Pre-historic Age
Prehistory is the period of human activity between the use of the first stone tools. About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, cut food, and bury their dead. -
Printing Press for Mass Production
A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium thereby transferring the ink. It is so significant that it has come to be known as one of the most important inventions of our time. It drastically changed the way society evolved.
Reflection: Most of us tend to take printed materials for granted, but imagine life today if the printing press had never been invented. We would not have books, magazines or newspapers would not exist. -
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Industrial Age
The Industrial Age is a period of history that characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments. -
Newspaper
Newspapers developed in the 17th century, as information sheets for businessmen. By the early 19th century, many cities in Europe, as well as North and South America, published newspapers. Reflection: This invention sparked a revolution in communication methods as it offered a lot of efficient ways to spread information. -
Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type.
Reflection: It is very nice to think that the people living in this time are very deviceful for inventing a typewriter. -
Telegraph
Telegraph was a revolutionary method of communication. The idea is to generate a coded electric signal at one location, send it through a wire over a long distance, and decode the message at a distant location.
Reflection: Inventions there , inventions everywhere, what an inventive people they are. -
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Electronic Age
The Electronic age is the invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistor that led to the transistor communication became more efficient. The invention of transistor, electronic circuits and early computers. -
Transistor Radio
A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry.
Reflection: Sharing of information is convenient to the people. -
Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
Reflection: Information is easily shared because during this time it is more productive and inventive for creating a television that serves as a means of sharing information. -
Personal Computers
In 1975 Ed Roberts coined the term personal computer when he introduced the Altair 8800. Although the first personal computer is considered to be the Kenback-1, which was first introduced for $750 in 1971. The computer relied on a series of switches for inputting data and output data by turning on and off a series of lights.
Reflection: As of now, computers had played a big role in our society for it is one of the greatest invention during this time. -
Web Browser
A web 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.
Reflection: Inventions during this time became more dynamic and helpful to the people. -
Period: to
Information Age
Digital Age or Informational Age is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information computerization.The internet paved the way advanced the used of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, devices wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sounds, and data are digitalized. -
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.
Reflection: Social network really helps the people to connect with one another and know each other better. -
Smartphones
A smartphone is a handheld personal computer. It possesses extensive computing capabilities, including high-speed access to the Internet using both Wi-Fi and mobile broadband if not all smartphones also are built with support for Bluetooth and satellite navigation.
Reflection:Smartphones have become part of our daily life, offer unlimited possibilities such as access to social networking media, stream videos and gather news and information effortlessly.
