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Pre-Colonial Traces
-the existence of a language system in pre-colonial Philippines was already in place in the form of the written word. -
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Alibata or Baybayin
-it is the most notable discovery whose form was image-based types of characters of our Asian neighbors -
The Print Industry and Filipino Freedom
-ancient colonizers brought books, magazines and newspapers in the Philippines, mostly printed in a language that not everybody in the archipelago could speak. There was a glaring of social class divide that was borne out of the citizens' access to early printed materials. -
"Zarzuela"
- stage theater originated musical shows such as the "zarzuela"
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Del Superior Govierno
-the first newspaper in the country, it was intended for the Spaniards only so it was written in Spanish. -
Noli Me Tangere(1887) and El Felibusterismo (1891)
-National Hero, Jose Rizal's two of the most famous novels that criticized the Spanish Rule. This proves that pen could also be mightier than the sword, and both could work together to topple an aggressive regime. -
La Solidaridad
-the most popular of these nationalistic newspapers -
The European Film Import
-two years after successfully launching cinema, Lumiere brothers' cinematographe film camera projector invention made its way to Philippines shores via the effort of a Spanish soldier named Carlo Naquera. With the cinematographe, he brought several Spanish-language short films and showed them to select audiences. -
Short films
-short films from America were soon imported and shown in the early theaters in Manila which results in early 1900s film-watching became a popular entertainment. -
The Broadcast Industry
-during the colonial Spanish period of the late 1800s, the British company Eastern Extension was granted permission to place submarine telegraph cables from Hong Kong to Manila via the province of Bolinao in Pangasinan. Local colonial government during the early 1900s. Radio broadcasts experiments thus began in the 1920s. -
Local Online Media
-Philippines officially connected to the world of the internet on March 1994 through the efforts of PHNET of Philippines Network Foundation, 1994 of August was the first commercial internet service provider was launched by Mosaic Communiction or MasCom, making it possible for Filipinos to go online.
