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3500 BCE
Cave Paintings (35,000 BC)
In prehistoric art, the term "cave painting" encompasses any parietal art which involves the application of colour pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC)
The papyrus of Egypt is most closely associated with writing - in fact, the English word 'paper' comes from the word 'papyrus' - but the Egyptians found many uses for the plant other than a writing surface for documents and texts. Papyrus was used as a food source, to make rope, for sandals, for boxes and baskets and mats, as window shades, material for toys such as dolls, as amulets to ward off throat diseases, and even to make small fishing boats. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)
Clay Tablets -A clay tablet is a more or less flat surface made of clay. Using a stylus, symbols were pressed into the soft clay. It is possible to correct errors on the tablet. The tablet was then baked or left in the sun until dry and hard. Cuneiform was the first writing used on clay tablets. -
500 BCE
Codex in Mayan Region (5th Century)
Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books written by the Pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Meso-Aamerican bark cloth. … The Maya developed their huun-paper around the 5th century, which is roughly the same time that the codex became predominant over the scroll in the Roman world. -
200 BCE
Dibao in China (2nd Century)
Chinese “Dibao” is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world. During West Han time. These offices were called “Di”s. “Di” Officers are selected by the eparchial government. Their responsibilities included collecting the messages announced by the administrative agents or even the empire, then writing them on the bamboo placard or the damask, and deliver them to their shire leaders via the early post station for reading. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC)
(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. -
220
Printing Press using Wood Blocks (220 AD)
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. Prior to the invention of woodblock printing, seals and stamps were used for making impressions. -
Newspaper - The London Gazette (1740)
THE LONDON GAZETTE dated February 14, 1740. This SINGLESHEET issue is 265 years old. Various news from London and other parts of Europe also with some interesting advertisements as well. A complete newspaper measuring about 7 by 11 1/2 inches and is in great condition. Made of rag paper which was used back in the day (no wood pulp). Fine and very early newspaper. Can easily be framed. WOULD MAKE A GREAT UNIQUE GIFT. -
Typewriter (1800)
A typewriter (1800) is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type -
Telegraph (1844)
The electric telegraph was an important invention born out of Joseph Henry’s electromagnetic motor.The idea is to generate a coded electric signal at one location, send it through a wire over a long distance, and decode the message at a distant location. This was first efficiently accomplished by sending electrical pulses that caused an electromagnet to rotate and strike a bell (Bellis "Telegraph"). -
Telephone (1876)
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. -
Motion Picture Photography/Projection (1890)
A motion picture camera is a light tight precision instrument. All professional cameras, with a few exceptions, are operated by an electric motor. The power can be supplied by a battery in the field or ac power in the studio. -
Punch Cards (1890)
A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Digital data can be for data processing applications or, in earlier examples, used to directly control automated machinery. -
Printing Press for Mass Production (1900)
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. It marked a dramatic improvement on earlier printing methods in which the cloth, paper or other medium was brushed or rubbed repeatedly to achieve the transfer of ink, and accelerated the process. -
Commercial motion pictures (1913)
Commercial motion-picture animation slumped in the 1960s as cartoons for children. -
Motion picture with sound (1926)
Motion picture (sound film) A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. -
Television (1941)
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, 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. -
Large Electronic Computers (1946)
ENIAC,in full Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer, the first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer, built during World War II by the United States. -
Transistor Radio (1947)
A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. -
Overhead Projector (1960)
An overhead projector is a machine that has a light inside it and makes the writing or pictures on a sheet of plastic appear on a screen or wall. The abbreviation OHP is also used. -
Portable computers- laptops (1980)
A portable computer was a computerdesigned to be easily moved from one place to another and included a display and keyboard.Not to be confused with Laptop, a microcomputer of any portability for consumer use. The Compaq Portable, one of the first portable IBM PC compatible systems.Modern military-type mobile computer housed in a reinforced case. Contemporary portable computer with three LCD screens. Contemporary portable computer with one 20.1" LCD screen, EATX motherboard -
Smart phones
A smartphone is a handheld personal computer with a mobile operating systemand an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for voice, SMS, and Internet data communication; most, if not all, smartphones also support Wi-Fi. Smartphones are typically pocket-sized, as opposed to tablet computers, which are much larger. -
Mosaic (1993)
NCSA Mosaic,or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet. It was also a client for earlier internet protocols such as File Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol, and Gopher. Mosaic was also the first browser to display images inline with text instead of displaying images in a separate window. While often described as the first graphical web browser. -
Internet Explorer (1995)
Internet Explorer was one of the most widely used web browsers, attaining a peak of about 95% usage share by 2003.This came after Microsoft used bundling to win the first browser war against Netscape, which was the dominant browser in the 1990s. Its usage share has since declined with the launch of Firefox(2004) and Google Chrome (2008), and with the growing popularity of operating systems such as Android and iOS that do not run Internet Explorer. -
Yahoo (1995)
Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. 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. -
Google (1996)
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. Google was founded in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University, California. Together, they own about 14 percent of its shares and control 56 percent of the stockholder voting power through supervoting stock. -
Blogspot (1999)
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. The blogs are hosted by Google and generally accessed from a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be served from a custom domain owned by the user (like www.example.com) by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. -
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. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via profiles and networks. -
Wordpress (2003)
WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little, as a fork of b2/cafelog. WordPress is released under the GPLv2 (or later) license. -
Multiply (2003)
Multiply was a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share media – such as photos, videos and blog entries – with their "real-world" network. The website was launched in March 2004 and was privately held with backing by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Point Judith Capital, Transcosmos, and private investors. Multiply had over 11 million registered users. -
Skype (2003)
Skype (/skaɪp/) is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones. Skype additionally provides instant messaging 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. -
Facebook (2004)
Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. -
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. YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. -
Twitter (2006)
Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message Service (SMS) or mobile-device application software ("app"). Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California, and has more than 25 offices around the world. -
Tumblr (2007)
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private. For bloggers many of the website's features are accessed from a "dashboard" interface. -
Netbooks (2008)
Netbook is a generic name given to a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive laptop computers that were introduced in 2007. Netbooks compete in the same market segment as mobiles and Chromebooks (a variation on the portable network computer). -
Instagram (2010)
The app allows users to upload photos and videos to the service, which can be edited with various filters, and organized with tags and location information. Instagram is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS. -
Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality (2010)
Virtual reality (VR) is an interactive computer-generated this immersive environment can be similar to the real world or it can be fantastical, creating an experience that is not possible in ordinary physical reality. Augmented reality systems may also be considered a form of VR that layers virtual information over a live camera feed into a headset or through a smartphone or tablet device giving the user the ability to view three-dimensional images. -
Tablets (1993)
In 1987, Apple Computer started its tablet project, which considered release of devices of three sizes, with the one eventually released in 1993, Apple Newton, being the smallest (yet it was quite substantial device with 6 inch screen and 800 grams weight).[14] It utilised Apple's own new Newton OS, initially running on hardware manufactured by Motorola and incorporating an ARM CPU, that Apple had specifically co-developed with Acorn Computers. -
Cloud and Big Data
Cloud Storage allows world-wide storage and retrieval of any amount of data at any time. You can use Cloud Storage for a range of scenarios including serving website content, storing data for archival and disaster recovery, or distributing large data objects to users via direct download. -
Wearable technology
Wearable technology, wearables, fashionable technology, wearable devices, tech togs, or fashion electronics are smart electronic devices (electronic device with micro-controllers) that can be worn on the body as implants or accessories.
