My Media Timeline

  • 36,000 BCE

    PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE

    people discovered fire ,developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools wit stone, bronze, copper and iron
  • Period: 36,000 BCE to 1700 BCE

    Pre-industrial Age

    People discover fire, developed paper from plants, and forge weapon and tools with stone, bronze, copper, and iron.
  • 35,000 BCE

    Cave Painting

    Cave Painting
    Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves.
    INSIGHT
    Cave painting is a beautiful art during pre industrial age. They use it to show symbols and to communicate.
  • 2500 BCE

    Papyrus in Egypt

    Papyrus in Egypt
    Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge.
    INSIGHT
    Papyrus can also refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined together side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book.
  • 2400 BCE

    Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia

    Clay Tablets in 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.
    Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen).
    INSIGHTS
    They are using clay tablets as their writing medium.
  • 200 BCE

    Dibao in China

    Dibao in China
    The Chinese “Dibao” is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world. During West Han time, Han government carried out the “Jun xian zhi”, the eparch and county system which is helpful in concentrating the central power. The country was divided into many eparches and counties but governed by the central government as a whole.
    INSIGHT
    It is the oldest news paper used to spread news and information.
  • 130 BCE

    Acta Diurna in Rome

    Acta Diurna in Rome
    Acta Diurna (Latin: Daily Acts sometimes translated as Daily Public Records) were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette. They were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places like the Forum of Rome. They were also called simply Acta.
    INSIGHT
    They are using Acta Diurna as early newspaper to spread news and information.
  • INDUSTRIAL AGE

    People use the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products.
  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    A typewriter is 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.
    INSIGHT
    A typewriter is essential in producing and sharing important information.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    A telephone or phone, is 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 that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user.
    INSIGHT
    Telephone is very important to us, it helps us to easily communicate from a far.
  • Newspaper(The London Gazette)

    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.
    INSIGHT
    The Gazette is not a conventional newspaper offering general news coverage. It does not have a large circulation, also, it is one of the oldest English news paper.
  • Printing Press for Mass Production

    Printing Press for Mass Production
    A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
    INSIGHT
    Printing press helps us to share and spread information.
  • Commercial Motion Pictures

    Commercial Motion Pictures
    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.
    INSIGHT
    motion pictures feel that the greatest films are the artistic and personal expression of strong directors.
  • ELECTRONIC AGE

    In this age, People invented the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this age, long distance communication became more efficient.
  • Television

    Television
    Television systems have influenced many aspects of human society enormously, including communications, entertainment, education, the arts, sports, politics, economics, science, technology, and has greatly contributed to the process of globalization.
    INSIGHTS
    Television has fulfilled the dream of instantly viewing distant objects and events. It helps us to easily informed about news and to be updated.
  • Transistor Radio

    Transistor Radio
    A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s.
    INSIGHT
    It is easy to bare and essential to us.
  • Large Electronic Computers (EDSAC)

    Large Electronic Computers (EDSAC)
    Short for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, EDSAC is an early British computer considered to be the second stored program electronic computer, after the SSEM. It was created at the University of Cambridge in England, performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949.
    INSIGHT
    It is a large-scale electronic calculating machine used for storage of orders and numbers.
  • Personal Computer(Apple 1)

    Personal Computer(Apple 1)
    It is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. Tthe units were used in a high school math class.
    INSIGHT
    It is very essential especially for the students because it helps them to store information they are needed.
  • INFORMATION AGE

    This is were the Internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network. People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. We are now living in the information age.
  • Personal Computer

    Personal Computer
    A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use. Personal computers are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or technician.
    INSIGHT
    At first, I don't know how to use it, but luckily, they taught me and it really helps me a lot.
  • Printer

    Printer
    A printer is an external hardware output device that takes the electronic data stored on a computer or other device and generates a hard copy of it.
    INSIGHT
    It is helpful especially for the students who are needed to print copies from computers.
  • Laptop

    Laptop
    A laptop computer (also shortened to just laptop; or called a notebook computer) is a small, portable personal computer (PC) with a "clamshell" form factor, typically having a thin LCD or LED computer screen mounted on the inside of the upper lid of the clamshell and an alphanumeric keyboard on the inside of the lower lid.
    INSIGHT
    It is a useful device used to store and gain information easily.
  • Search Engine(Google)

    Search Engine(Google)
    Google Custom Search is a platform provided by Google that allows web developers to feature specialized information in web searches, refine and categorize queries and create customized search engines, based on Google Search.
    INSIGHT
    It is very useful and helps us to easily browse and be updated anytime.
  • Social Network (Facebook)

    Social Network (Facebook)
    A social network is a website that allows people with similar interests to come together and share information, photos and videos. People engaged in social networking may be doing so as a personal or a business endeavor.
    INSIGHT
    Facebook helps people to easily communicate and be friends with people.
  • Cellphones

    Cellphones
    A mobile phone, cellphone, or hand phone, sometimes shortened to simply mobile, cell or just phone, is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area.
    INSIGHT
    Cellphone is very essential to all people, it helps us to quickly communicate for our love ones from a distance.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos.
    INSIGHT
    Youtube is essential to to us, it is used to play, watch and update videos.
  • Cave painting

    Cave painting
    Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, but cave paintings can also be of recent production: In the Gabarnmung cave of northern Australia, the oldest paintings certainly predate 28,000 years ago, while the most recent ones were made less than a century ago.
  • Cave painting

    Cave painting
    Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, but cave paintings can also be of recent production: In the Gabarnmung cave of northern Australia, the oldest paintings certainly predate 28,000 years ago, while the most recent ones were made less than a century ago.