The Evolution of Media

Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)

35,000 BCE

Cave paintings

Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)

2400 BCE

Clay tablets in Mesopotamia

Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)

220

Printing press using wood blocks

Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)

1640

Newspaper- The London Gazette (1640)

Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)

1830

Telegraph

Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)

1890

Motion picture photography/projection

Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)

1941

Television

Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)

1951

Large electronic computers- EDSAC and UNIVAC

Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)

1976

Personal computers - Hewlett-Packard 9100A, Apple 1

Information Age (1900s-2000s)

1983

Cloud and Big Data

Information Age (1900s-2000s)

1993

Portable computers- laptops (1980), netbooks (2008), tablets (1993)

Information Age (1900s-2000s)

1995

Web browsers: Internet Explorer

Information Age (1900s-2000s)

1996

Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995)

Information Age (1900s-2000s)

2003

Blogs: Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999), Wordpress (2003)

Information Age (1900s-2000s)

2004

Social networks: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Facebook (2004)

Information Age (1900s-2000s)

2005

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