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38,000 BCE
Clay Tablet
Clay tablets were also used to write stories using the first writing system- the cuneiform, which emerged during the metal age. -
Period: 38,000 BCE to
Pre-Industrial Age
Prehistoric technology is technology that predates recorded history. History is the study of the past using written records. Anything prior to the first written accounts of history is prehistoric, including earlier technologies. About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, and bury their dead. -
100 BCE
Paper
The earliest extant paper fragment was unearthed at Fangmatan in Gansu province of China, and was likely part of a map. The papers started by Cai Lun, an eunuch official, were made of berries and fine fibers that makes them less expensive compared to silk. -
Printing Press
Woodblock printing is 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. -
Codex
book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials, with hand-written contents -
Acta Diurna
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. -
Period: to
Industrial Age
The Industrial Age is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments -
Newspaper
A printed publication (usually issued daily or weekly) consisting of folded unstapled sheets and containing news, feature articles, advertisements, and correspondence. -
Typewriter
An electric, electronic, or manual machine with keys for producing print like characters one at a time on paper inserted around a roller. -
Photograph
Louis Daguerre went on to develop the daguerreotype process, the first publicly announced and commercially viable photographic process. It was commercially introduced in 1839, a date generally accepted as the birth year of practical photography. Robert Cornelius, self-portrait, October or November 1839, an approximately quarter plate size daguerreotype. On the back is written, "The first light picture ever taken". -
Telegraph
A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection. -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell invented and patented the first telephone that did work reliably. The first successful telephone call happened on March 10, 1876 wherein Alexander told his assistant, Thomas Watson: "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you." -
Period: to
Electronic Age
Understand the changing relationships between media, telecommunications and computing industries, while investigating the practices of electronic publishing. This unit provides you with an understanding of key developments in traditional media such as book, print and broadcasting, while building your awareness of the social and political implications of communications in the electronic age. -
First Computer
The first ever electrical binary programmable system was created by Konrad Zuse and his parents in their home living room. This has shaped our media greatly as computers control next to everything we use in our society today. Computers are used to edit, and develope televison, and movies, as well as record music. They are the main source from which people today gain their media and information from, and have shaped our industrial lives greatly. -
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. The term can refer to a television set, a television program ("TV show"), or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip, and advertising. -
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[1] manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s. Their pocket size sparked a change in popular music listening habits, allowing people to listen to music anywhere they went. -
VHS Player
The Sony company engineers developed this invention which again shaped our media. The VHS player changed the movie industry as suddenly movies were no longer things that could only be seen at a cinema. Movies could now be purchased, and watched over and over again within the comfort of ones own home. This was before unheard of, and it goes without saying it changed the movie world, as it allowed many more people to be able to enjoy the medium. -
Personal Computers
The 9100A was the first technical desktop computer introduced by Hewlett Packard. The 9100 could also be considered a calculator. It did not have an alphanumeric keyboard, and most functions were effectively "programmed under" individual keys on the keyboard, similar to a modern-day non-programmable trigonometric calculator. -
Period: to
Information Age
People advances the use of microelectronics in the invention of personal computers,mobile devices and wearable technology, In this age the internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of social network, moreover, voice, image sound and date digitalized. -
Web Browsers
Mosaic (1993)
NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is a discontinued early web browser. It has been credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier protocols such as File Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol,and Gopher. Its intuitive interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to its popularity within the web, as well as on Microsoft operating systems -
Search Engines
Yahoo! is a web services provider, wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and President of Yahoo until June 2017. -
Blogs
This search Engine is dedicated to all those who love Blogspot blogs and want to search blogs on blogspot.Search the world's best blogs on this blogspot blog search engine that helps you exactly find blogger blogs that you are looking for on blogpsot. This search engine only focuses on the blogs that are made on blogspot and gives you search results from all the blogger blogs that are available online by searching the blogspot blogs . -
Social Networks
Friendster (2002)
Friendster was a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was originally a social networking service website. Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts.The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies. It is considered one of the original and even the "grandfather" of social networks. -
Video Chat
Skype (2003)
Skype is 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. -
Video
Youtube (2005)
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees – Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim – in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. -
Microblogs
Twitter (2006)
Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, SMS or a mobile device app. Twitter Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, United States, and has more than 25 offices around the world. -
Portable Computers
Laptops (1980), Netbooks (2008), Tablets (1993)
A portable computer is a personal computer that is designed to be easily transported and relocated, but is larger and less convenient to transport than a notebook computer. The earliest PCs designed for easy transport were called portables. As the size and weight of most portables decreased, they became known as laptop computer and later as notebook computer. Most of these are special-purpose computers. -
Smart phones, Wearable technology and Cloud and Big Data
2000 up to the present 2017
Wearable technology, wearables, fashionable technology, wearable devices, tech togs, or fashion electronics are smart electronic devices (electronic device with microcontrollers) that can be worn on the body as implant or accessories. The designs often incorporate practical functions and features.
