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Paint made from mud or charcoal combined with spit or animal fat was used to decorate the walls of sheltered caves by ancient people. -
The Prehistoric Age is defined by the usage of the first stone tools and the invention of writing systems.
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Papyrus is a writing substance manufactured from the papyrus plant, a reed that grows in the marshy areas of the Nile river. Papyrus was employed as a writing material in ancient Egypt as early as 3000 BC, and it was used to some extent until around 1100 AD. -
Clay tablets were employed as a writing medium throughout the Bronze Age and far into the Iron Age, especially for cuneiform writing. Cuneiform characters were inscribed with a reed stylus on a wet clay tablet. The symbols on this tablet usually represent the quantities of barley rations for laborers. -
The codex is an old manuscript book with handwritten contents. A codex, like a modern book, is bound by stacking the pages and fixing one set of edges in a manner similar to modern bookbinding, which has been done in a variety of ways throughout history. -
Dibao was the only official government newspaper produced by the ancient Chinese central government in successive dynasties, and it was issued by central and local governments in imperial China. -
The world's first newspaper was known as Acta Diurna. Acta Diurna was developed by Augustus Caesar to keep the Romans informed about developments around the empire, and it was sometimes published four times a day when news was current and urgent. -
The oldest known printed text originated in China during the first millennium A.D. However, in Europe, the printing press did not appear until 150 years after Wang Chen’s innovation. Goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France in 1440. -
The Industrial Age is a period defined by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machinery such as the power loom and the steam engine, as well as the concentration of industry in big institutions.
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A telegraph is a communication device that allows you to send and receive information over long distances. People seeking a faster and easier way to convey and receive information soon welcomed the use of the telegraph during this era. -
A typewriter is a character-typing machine that can be mechanical or electromechanical. A typewriter usually contains a number of keys, each of which produces a single character on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectively against the paper with a type element. -
A telephone is a type of telecommunications device that allows two or more people to communicate when they are too far apart to hear each other directly. A telephone translates sound, most commonly human voice, into electronic signals that are conveyed via cables and other communication channels to another telephone, which then reproduces the sound for the receiving user. -
In 1891, inventors Thomas Edison and William Dickson came up with the kinetoscope, a device that would become the precursor to the motion picture projector. A motion picture is a quick succession of photos projected on a screen with objects exhibited in slightly different positions to create the optical appearance of a continuous picture in which the objects move. -
A Television is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in black-and-white or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. Television was the primary medium for shaping public opinion in the 1950s. Color broadcasting was introduced in the United States and most other developed countries in the mid-1960s. -
The transistor's invention signaled the beginning of the electronic age. People began to utilize the transistor's power, which resulted in communication being more efficient.
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ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer) was the first large-scale computer to function at electronic speed without being impeded by mechanical parts, and it was created between 1943 and 1945. It was acclaimed as "an astonishing gadget that for the first time uses electronic speeds to mathematical tasks that were previously too complex and laborious to solve." -
A transistor radio is a compact portable radio receiver that is built around transistors. The Regency TR-1 was the first commercial transistor radio, produced in 1954, following the creation of the transistor in 1947, which transformed the area of consumer electronics by introducing small yet powerful, handy hand-held devices. -
A mainframe computer is a computer that is typically used by large businesses for mission-critical applications such as censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing.
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This marks the start of technical developments in communication and information systems which had a significant impact on our daily lives and have been the driving force behind social progress.
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In 1975, Eastman Kodak engineer Steven Sasson created the first true digital still camera. It used a digital cassette tape to record black-and-white images, and Sasson and his colleagues had to create a customized screen to view them. -
A personal computer (PC) is a digital computer designed for single-user operation. A typical personal computer assemblage includes a central processing unit (CPU), two types of computer memory, and various peripheral devices, such as a display screen, keyboard and mouse, and printer. -
Most historians consider the Osborne 1 to be the first real mobile or laptop computer. A laptop computer is a small portable computer with its main components (processor, screen, and keyboard) built into a single unit capable of battery-powered operation, weighing between 2 and 8 pounds, depending on dimensions, materials, and other variables. -
The World Wide Web (WWW) is a hypertext document management system that can be accessed via the Internet. It has since grown to become the world's most popular software platform. -
IBM invented the first smartphone called the Simon Personal Communicator (SPC) in 1992, and it was available for purchase in 1994. Despite its lack of compactness and elegance, the gadget included some features that would become standard in subsequent smartphones. -
One of the early web browsers was NCSA Mosaic. By including multimedia such as text and images, it helped popularize the World Wide Web and the Internet in general. -
Amazon is a massive Internet-based company that sells books, music, movies, housewares, electronics, toys, and a variety of other items directly or as an intermediary between other shops and Amazon's millions of customers. -
Larry Page and Sergey Brin founded Google Inc. in 1998 to market Google Search, which has now become the most popular web-based search engine. -
Friendster was a social networking game established by Jonathan Abrams in Mountain View, California, and launched in March 2003. The company then evolved into a social game platform based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. Friendster allowed users to connect with other members, retain those contacts, and share online material and media with those friends until it was redesigned. -
Facebook is an American online social media and social networking website. I personally use Facebook to exchange text, photographs, and multimedia with other users who have consented to be my "friend". -
YouTube is a Google-owned online video sharing and social media network based in the United States. I personally use YouTube to watch videos for education and entertainment purposes. -
Twitter is a microblogging and social networking website that allows users to send and receive messages known as "tweets." I personally use Twitter as a platform to share my thoughts as well as interact with other users and be updated with several personalities. -
The iPhone was also the first gadget to provide a full, undiluted internet experience. Consumers could browse the web on the original iPhone just like they could on a desktop computer. -
Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking site. I personally use this app to share media publicly and browse other users' posts. -
TikTok is a popular social networking site that allows users to record, watch, and share 15 to 180-second videos using their smartphones. I use the app to browse through content on my feed and engage with users with similar interests.
