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1750 BCE
Pre Industrial Era
Pre-industrial society refers to social attributes and forms of political and cultural organization that were prevalent before the advent of the Industrial Revolution, which occurred from 1750 to 1850. Pre-industrial is a time before there were machines and tools to help perform tasks en masse. -
1650 BCE
Industrial Era
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. -
CODEX
A codex, plural codices, is a book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials, with hand-written contents. -
CLAY TABLETS
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). -
PRINTING PRESS USING WOOD BLOCKS
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 pape -
PAPYRUS
Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. -
CAVE PAINTINGS
Cave paintings (also known as "parietal art") are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, dated to some 40,000 years ago (around 38,000 BCE) in Eurasia. -
ACTA DIURNA
Acta Diurna 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. -
DIBAO
Dibao, sometimes called headmen or constables, were local officials in Qing and early Republican China, typically selected from among the prominent landowners. Working in communities of around 100 households, they were charged with overseeing boundaries and land disputes. -
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 printlike characters one at a time on paper inserted around a roller. -
TELEGRAPH
A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection -
TELEPHONE
A system that converts acoustic vibrations to electrical signals in order to transmit sound, typically voices, over a distance using wire or radio. -
Electronic Age
Electronic forms of media are media that use electronics or an electromechanical audience to access the content. This is in contrast to static media (mainly print media), which today is most often created electronically, which does not require electronics to be accessed by the end user in the printed form. -
TELEVISION
A system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education -
LARGE ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS
Was amongst the earliest electronic general-purpose computers made. It was Turing-complete, digital and able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming -
MAINFRAME COMPUTERS
Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing. -
Informational Media
The Information Age began around the 1970s and is still going on today. It is also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age. This era brought about a time period in which people could access information and knowledge easily. -
PERSONAL COMPUTERS
Apple Computer 1, also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. -
PORTABL COMPUTERS
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. -
WEB BROWSERS
Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. -
BLOGS
A regularly updated website or web page, typically one run by an individual or small group, that is written in an informal or conversational style. -
WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
Wearable technology (also called wearable gadgets) is a category of technology devices that can be worn by a consumer and often include tracking information related to health and fitness. Other wearable tech gadgets include devices that have small motion sensors to take photos and sync with your mobile devices. -
SOCIAL NETWORK
A dedicated website or other application that enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc. -
MICROBLOGS
A social media site to which a user makes short, frequent posts.
