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30,000 BCE
Cave Drawings
Communication began as drawings on walls of caves, carvings on barks of trees.
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100
Scroll
A scroll, also known as a roll, is a roll of papyrus, parchment, or paper containing writing. It is usually divided up into pages, which are sometimes separate sheets of papyrus or parchment glued together at the edges, or may be marked divisions of a continuous roll of writing material. Scrolls were the first form of editable record keeping texts, used in Eastern Mediterranean ancient Egyptian civilizations. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scroll) -
100
Codex
A codex is a book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials, facing one another that were bounded together for easy reading. It is a document which can be rightfully referred to as the prototype of a book which was invented by Christians. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex) -
1500
Printing Press
Printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink. It was invented by Johann Gutenberg.
A revolution in printing took place when he invented the printing technology called Movable Type Machine which made the production of multiple copies at a time possible. The Bible was one of Gutenberg’s earliest and most famous creations. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing_press) -
1500
The Spread of Printing Press
Around 1500, printing presses have been established in 242 cities across countries, mostly in Western Europe. Gutenberg’s printing process launched the first medium designed for the masses. The printed materials altered the people’s churches, sciences, arts, and politics, accelerating developments in the Industrial Revolution of the 17th century. Doctrina Cristiana was the first book printed in the Philippines. -
Newspapers
Through the Gutenberg printing press, newspapers were produced. The term newspaper, then, became common in the 16th century. The first newspapers were patronized by merchants. As perennial travelers, they were very interested on what was going on in various parts of the world, both economically and politically. The German-language Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, printed from 1605 onwards by Johann Carolus in Strasbourg, was the first newspaper. -
Free Press
The idea of free press emerged as a strong rhetoric against authoritarian states. -
Adversarial Press
Turow (2009, 300) noted the rise of adversarial press. It is a press that had the ability to conduct dialogue and even argue with the government. An adversarial press is that subset of the free press which not on -
Steam-powered Cylinder Press
Development of steam engine gave rise to the steam-powered cylinder press invented by Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Bauer. This dramatically lowered the cost of newspapers which transformed newspapers into a truly mass medium accompanied with the rise of the working class. -
Kodak Company
George Eastman invented the film and built the Kodak Company. The Eastman Kodak Company (referred to simply as Kodak) is an American technology company that produces imaging products with its historic basis on photography. -
Motion Pictures
Thomas Edison and William Dickson turned the use of the photographic film into a material that can be moved in front of a lens at a constant speed to result several photographs which took the form of Kinetograph. The Kinetoscope with William Dickson’s motion picture film introduced a basic approach that would become the standard for all cinematic projection before the advent of video. (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinetoscope) -
Film Projectors
From Kinetoscope, Louis and Auguste Lumière brothers began trying to figure out how to combine film recording and projection into a single device. In 1895, Louis Lumière came up with Cinématographe which projects film onto a screen, where many people could view it at the same time rather that Kinetoscope which only shows a motion picture to one individual viewer.
More on: (http://www.history.com/news/the-lumiere-brothers-pioneers-of-cinema) -
Edison Vitascope
Thomas Edison still improved the technology developed by the Lumiẻre bothers with large screen projecting and came up with Edison Vitascope, a large electrically-powered projector that uses light to cast images. Edison vitascope was on a public debut in New York and showed a film entitled Rough Sea at Dover by Robert Paul. -
Television
The word “television” was already used in a magazine called Scientific American. -
First Television Telecast
Philo Farnsworth demonstrates his image dissector camera and "oscillite" tube receiver for the press, with the transmission of motion picture clips, described by a reporter as "a queer looking little image in bluish light now, one that frequently smudges and blurs." It is the first public demonstration of an all-electronic television system -
Electronic Scanning Television
Radio Corporation of America introduced electronic scanning. -
1st Regular Electronic Television Service
Nazi authorities in Germany operated the world’s first regular television service as a platform for propaganda. Broadcasting from the Fernsehsender Paul Nipkow, it used a 180-line system, and was on air for 90 minutes, three times a week. -
Transistor Radio
Invention of the transistor radio took place that signaled the development of semi-conductor devices, considered as the foundation of modern electronics as it led to the invention of integrated circuits, a technology critical in the development of computers. -
Electronic computers
IBM (International Business Machines Corporation) shipped its first electronic computers called 701. -
ARPANET
ARPANET was created and considered as the predecessor of the internet. The Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) was an early packet switching network and the first network to implement the protocol suite TCP/IP. Both technologies became the technical foundation of the Internet. -
ARPANET to Internet
Transition from ARPANET to Internet commenced to serve more purposes other than catering the military. TCP/IP architecture was the first innovation proposed by Stanford University which was considered as the standard protocol by which networks communicate. -
TCP/IP
TCP/IP architecture was universally adopted.The Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) is one of the main protocols of the Internet protocol (IP) suite. It originated in the initial network implementation in which it complemented the Internet Protocol. -
First local Bulletin Board System (BBS)
The first local Bulletin Board System (BBS) started and operated using a software that ran on IBM XT Clone PC. It is a computer system running a software that allows users to connect and exchange messages and information using a terminal program. -
Internet in the Philippines
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Inter-BBS Connectivity
Inter-BBS connectivity was enabled through Philippine FidoNet exchange. -
E-mail and Services
The e-mail gateways and services broadened -
Launching of PhilNet Project
The PhilNet project was launched with the support from the Industrial Research Foundation (IRF). -
The PhilNet Project and DOST.
The PhilNet project scaled up with the full funding from the DOST. -
PLDT and Launching of World Wide Web
The Philippines was formally connected to the Internet using the PLDT network center, formerly known as the Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company, in Makati City. Dr. John Brule announced that the PhilNet connection successfully linked up with the global Internet on the First International E-mail Conference held at the University of San Carlos in Cebu. World Wide Web was launched in the Philippines.
