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35,000 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE (Before 1700's)
The period of human activity between the use of the first stone tools ~3.3 million years ago and the invention of writing systems, the earliest of which appeared ~5300 years ago. 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. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus of Egypt
Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets of Mesopotamia
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. -
907 BCE
Dibao (China)
A type of publications issued by central and local governments in imperial China.They have also been called "palace reports" or "imperial bulletins". They contained official announcements and news, and were intended to be seen only by bureaucrats -
800 BCE
Codex (Mayan Region)
Folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark cloth.. -
220 BCE
Printing Press( Woodblocks)
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. -
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Acta Diurna in Rome
Their original content included results of legal proceedings and outcomes of trials. Later the content was expanded to public notices and announcements and other noteworthy information such as prominent births, marriages and deaths. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE ( 1700's- 1930's)
People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press) Examples: Newspaper- The London Gazette (1640) -
Punchcards
A piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Digital data can be for data processing applications or, in earlier examples, used to directly control automated machinery. -
Newspaper- The London Gazette
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. -
Typewriter
a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and pressing one causes a different single character to be produced on the paper, by causing a ribbon with dried ink to be struck against the paper by a type element similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing. -
Telegraph
It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
Telephone
A telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. -
Motion Pictures Photography
Motion picture, also called film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. -
Printing Press for Mass Production
A device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink -
NEW/INFROMATION AGE (1900's- 2000's)
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. -
Commercial Motion Pictures
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Motion Pictures with Music
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ELECTRONICAL AGE (1930's-1980's)
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. -
Mosaic Web Browser
NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet. -
Blogspot - Blogs
A discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts"). -
Television
A telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. -
Transistor Radio
A small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. -
Large Electronic Computers
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Overhead Projector
A variant of slide projector that is used to display images to an audience. The name is often abbreviated to OHP -
Mainframe Computers
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Laptops- Portable Computers
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LCD Projector
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. -
Augmented Reality
An interactive experience of a real-world environment whose elements are "augmented" by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory, and olfactory. -
Smartphones
A handheld personal computer with a mobile operating system and an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for voice, SMS, and Internet data communication; most, if not all, smartphones also support Wi-Fi. Smartphones are typically pocket-sized, as opposed to tablet computers, which are much larger. -
Tablets- Portable Computer
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Internet Explorer-Web Browser
A series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems -
Google- Search Engine
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 -
Big Data and CLoud
An information technology (IT) paradigm that enables ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable system resources and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a public utility. -
Friendster- Social Networks
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 -
Wordpress- Blog
A free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. -
Skype
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. -
Multiply- Social Networks
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. -
Wearable Technology
Smart electronic devices (electronic device with micro-controllers) that can be worn on the body as implants or accessories. -
Facebook- Social Media
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-Video
It allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. -
Twitter- Microblogs
An online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". -
Tumblr- Microblogs
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. -
Netbooks- Portable Computer
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Instagram- Social Networks
The app allows users to upload photos and videos to the service, which can be edited with various filters, and organized with tags and location information.
