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38,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
(also known as "parietal art") are
painted drawings on cave walls or
ceilings, mainly of prehistoric
origin, dated to some 40,000 years
ago (around 38,000 BCE) in
Eurasia -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
first manufactured in Egypt as far
back as the fourth millennium BCE.
The papyrus rolls describe the last
years of building the Great Pyramid
of Giza. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia
Sumerians lived in Mesopotamia, a land crossed by two rivers and rich in marshes and mud. They found it handy to use clay tablets (a fine grain mud) for writing -
220
Printing press using wood blocks
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. -
500
Codex in the Maya region
folding books stemming from the preColumbian Maya civilization. These codices
were written in Mayan hieroglyphic script on
Mesoamerican paper, made from the inner
bark of certain trees -
News Paper
a publication that appears regularly and
frequently, and carries news about a wide
variety of current events. Newspapers began
circulating in the 17th century. The first real
newspaper in England was printed in 1665.
The first successful daily newspaper in
Britain was printed in 1702 -
Typewriter
a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type. A typewriter operates by means of keys that strike a ribbon to transmit ink or carbon impressions onto paper -
Telegraph
a communications system in which information i
s transmitted over a wire through a series of elect
rical current pulses, usually in the form of Morse
code. -
Telephone
a telecommunications device that permits two or
more users to conduct a conversation when they are
too far apart to be heard directly. A telephone
converts sound, typically and most efficiently the
human voice, into electronic signals suitable for
transmission -
Television
Television or 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. -
Punch Cards
Punch cards also known as Hollerith cards and
IBM cards are paper cards containing several
punched holes that were punched by hand or
machine to represent data -
Motion Picture Photography
Motion picture photography, dating from the
1890s, is one of the oldest of modern imaging,
technologies that remains current today.Motion
picture theory is simple and clear-cut -
Printing Press for Mass Production
which text and images are transferred to paper
or other media by means of ink. Although
movable type, as well as paper, first appeared
in China, it was in Europe that printing first
became mechanized -
UNIVAC -I
First-generation computer was characterized by
a very prominent feature on the ENIAC, vacuum
tubes. -
Transistor Radio
is a small portable radio receiver that
uses transistor-based circuitry -
Apple 1
also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is
a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer
Company (now Apple Inc.) It was designed
and hand-built by Steve Wozniak.
overhead -
Laptops
a small, portable personal computer with a
"clamshell" form factor, an alphanumeric
keyboard on the lower part of the "clamshell"
and a thin LCD or LED computer screen on the
upper portion, which is opened up to use the
computer.
PERSONAL INSIGHT: Laptops lets us have a computer
on the go. We can bring and use
it anywhere. It also works just as
fine as a desktop computer.
Laptops are a great help to office
workers, and especially for us
students. -
Smartphone
Smart·phone performs
many of the functions of a computer, typically
having a touchscreen interface, Internet access,
and an operating system capable of running
downloaded applications.
PERSONAL INSIGHT:Through smartphones, we can
communicate with other people,
search for information, visit social
media, or even play mobile games. -
Yahoo
a web services provider, wholly owned by
Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. and
headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. -
Internet Explorer
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.
Personal Insight: It is a great tool in our studies
especially in this modern era.
Whatever it is that we want to
find or look info on the Internet,
we can acquire answers easily
through a fast web search using
different web browsers -
Google
The most popular search engine, was
invented by the Soviet born Sergey Brin and
American Larry Page in 1998. They named it
Google, after the Googol. The Googol is the
term for the number 1 followed by 100 zeros. It provides
thousands of information related
to the keywords we entered in
diff. formats: videos, images,
texts (news, websites).
PERSONAL INSIGHT:
We use Google in researching for our
assignments or anything we are
curious about. -
Blogspot
It’s generally recognized that the first
blog was Links.net, created by Justin Hall. At
that time they weren’t called blogs, and he just
referred to it as his personal homepage.
It serves as an outlet to us as a
human with different experiences
and wants to share the reflections,
opinions, and lesson we learned. It
also improves our creative writing
skills through short stories, poems
and etc. -
Friendster
A feature that showed how you were connected
to strangers made meeting people less
intimidating and highly addictive. It was also
considered a safe way to meet potential dates
online. -
Skype
An instant messaging app that provides online text
message and video chat services. Users may transmit
both text and video messages and may exchange
digital documents such as images, text, and video.
Skype allows video conference calls.
PERSONAL INSIGHT:
Skype has been a great help for us
ever since. It connected us with our
relatives/ loved ones outside the
country. It makes us feel that we're
talking face to face, forgetting for a
brief moment that we're miles apart -
Facebook
Mark Zuckerberg, 23, founded Facebook while
studying psychology at Harvard University. A
keen computer programmer
The most accessible SNS we use.
PERSONAL INSIGHT:
Facebook let's us connect with our
friends and families. Facebook
makes us updated with the trending
issues, and lets us share videos and
pictures. -
Youtube
Was invented by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and
Jawed Karim out of a garage in Menlo Park. Users
can upload and share video clips on
www.YouTube.com and YouTube enables video
embedding that allows YouTube videos to be placed
on non-YouTube pages.
PERSONAL INSIGHT:
YouTube offers us to watch
educational videos we need at
school. It also serves as an
entertainment every time we want
to spend pur leisure time watching
funny and trending videos -
Twitter
An online news and social networking service
where users post and interact with messages,
"tweets", restricted to 140 characters.
PERSONAL INSIGHT:
Let's us join "tweeting" what's
trending locally or even national.
It also enables us to "tweet" our
opinions/reactions to a certain
topic. -
Netbooks
A generic name given to a category of small,
lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive laptop
computers.
PERSONAL INSIGHT:
these are the smaller and lighter
version of laptops. It just missed
out some features but still have
the important functions -
Tumblr
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.
PERSONAL INSIGHT:
An entertaining blog were we can
also download photos/videos. We
can post frequent brief messages
about personal activities. -
Hangouts
A communication platform developed by Google
which includes instant 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
