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Period: 36,000 BCE to 220
Pre-Industrial Age
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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
The earliest form of human communication started on cave walls before the first word was written. Cave paintings goes back since the Ice Age which is 40,000 years ago. -
3200 BCE
Clay Tablet
The earliest form of writing invented by the Sumerians using inscriptions is called Cuneiform. It is carved on claytablets using ancient languages called Akkadian and Sumerian -
3000 BCE
Papyrus
Papyrus is a writing medium derived from the papyrus plant, a reed that thrives in the marshy areas surrounding the Nile River. Papyrus was employed as a writing material in ancient Egypt as early as 3,000 BC and was still utilized to some extent until approximately 1100 AD. -
220
Woodblock Printing
Woodblock printing, also known as block printing, is a technique for printing text, pictures, or patterns that originated in China in antiquity as a means of printing on fabrics and subsequently paper. The oldest known instances of printing on fabric from China come from before 220 AD -
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Industrial Age
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Newspaper
The London Gazette is one of the official publications of record or Government gazettes of the United Kingdom's Government, and the most significant among such official publications in the United Kingdom, where certain statutory notifications are obliged to be published. -
Printing Press
Printing press, a machine that uses ink to transfer text and images to paper or other medium. Although moveable type and paper were invented in China, it was in Europe that printing became automated. -
Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine that produces characters similar to those generated by moveable type in a printer. A typewriter works by striking a ribbon with keys to transfer ink or carbon imprints onto paper. On each key push, a single character is typically printed -
Telegraph
Telegraph, any device or system that allows the transmission of information by coded signal over distance. Many telegraphic systems have been used over the centuries, but the term is most often understood to refer to the electric telegraph, which was developed in the mid-19th century and for more than 100 years was the principal means of transmitting printed information by wire or radio wave. -
Motion Picture Projection
A movie projector is a device that continuously moves film along a path so that each frame of the film is stopped for a fraction of a second in front of a light source. The light source provides extremely bright illumination that casts the image on the film through a lens onto a screen. -
Motion Picture with sound
A sound film, as opposed to a silent film, is a motion picture with synchronized sound or sound that is technologically connected to the visual. The first documented public presentation of projected sound films occurred in Paris in 1900, but it took decades for sound motion pictures to become commercially viable. -
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Electronic Age
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Television
The United States introduced 525-line television in 1941. Benjamin Adler, an electrical engineer, was a key figure in the creation of television. In 1944, the Soviet Union developed the world's first 625-line television standard, which became a national standard in 1946. -
Large Electronic Computer (ENIAC)
The first programmable, electrical, general-purpose digital computer was ENIAC. Through reprogramming, it was Turing-complete and capable of solving "a broad class of numerical problems." -
Transistor Radio
Transistor radios are still widely used in automobiles. Between the 1950s and 2012, it is believed that billions of transistor radios were sold globally. Transistor radios' pocket size prompted a shift in popular music listening habits, allowing individuals to listen to music wherever they went. -
Large Electronic Computer (UNIVAC I)
The UNIVAC I was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer designed in the United States for corporate applications. It was primarily designed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the ENIAC's creators. -
Mainframe Computers
A mainframe computer, often known as a big iron or a mainframe, is a computer used largely by large companies for essential applications such as bulk data processing for censuses, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing. -
Personal Computers
A personal computer is a general-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and initial purchase price make it suitable for individuals, and which is designed to be operated directly by an end-user without the intervention of a computer operator. A personal computer might be a desktop, laptop, netbook, tablet, or portable PC. -
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Information Age
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Portable Computers
A portable computer is a computer designed to be easily transported from one location to another, with a display and keyboard connected by a single connection, similar to later desktop computers known as all-in-ones, which combine the system's internal components into the same casing as the display. -
Web Browsers
Browsers are programs that allow devices to connect to the internet. These browsers date from 1990 to the present and include Google, Safari, Firefox, Lynx, Mosaic, Opera, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge. -
Smart Phones
A smartphone is a type of cell phone that can do more than just make phone calls and send text messages. Smartphones, like computers, can access the Internet and run software programs. Smartphones allow consumers to interact with them via a touch screen. There are thousands of smartphone applications that operate on the phone, including games, personal-use, and business-use programs. -
Advanced Wearable Tech
Wearables are things that contain electronic technology or gadgets that can be comfortably worn on the body. These wearable gadgets are used to collect data in real time. They have motion sensors that record your daily activities and sync them with mobile devices or laptop computers. It was first invented during the late 1970s and became part of the new information age as it started to become more advanced. The picture is an example of today's wearable tech called Samsung Watch. -
Summary
As days gone by, our world continues to grow and develop. Things will start from hard to as easy as breathing. Like the timeline of media, we started from sticks and stones and from there we started to develop and make communication much easier. From the pre-industrial age, which is mostly composed of sticks and stones, came the industrial age where new forms of media was invented like the printing press, typewriter, telegraph, and motion pictures. -
Summary
From the Industrial age, came the Electronic age wherein things from the past became more advanced and made things more easier for people. With the power of electricity, people were able to develop even more types of media. Now with the creation of Television, Large Electronic Computers, Transistor Radios, Personal Computers, Mainframe Computers, people are able to access information much easier. -
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After the Electronics age, came the Information Age wherein the things from the Electronics Age became much more advanced and helpful to people. With the creation of Portable Computers, Web Browsers, Smart Phones, and Wearable Tech, people are able to interact much easier even when they are apart from each other. The power of media was able to change the lives of people in this age, as media has become a part of society and the lives of many.
