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THE EVOLUTION OF TRADITIONAL TO NEW MEDIA

  • 2500 BCE

    Papyrus in Egypt

    Papyrus in Egypt
    was first manufactured in Egypt as far back as the fourth millennium BCE. The earliest archaeological evidence of papyrus was excavated in 2012 and 2013 at Wadi al-Jarf, an ancient Egyptian harbor located on the Red Sea coast. These documents date from c. 2560–2550 BCE (end of the reign of Khufu). The papyrus rolls describe the last years of building the Great Pyramid of Giza.
  • Period: 1700 BCE to 1850 BCE

    PRE INDUSTRIAL

    People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, coppers, iron.
  • 500 BCE

    Codex in the mayan region

    Codex in the mayan region
    are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. ... 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.
  • 130 BCE

    Acta diurna in rome

    Acta diurna in rome
    Acta Diurna, also called Acta Populi, Acta Publica and simply Acta or Diurna, in ancient Rome was a sort of daily government gazette, containing an officially authorized narrative of noteworthy events at Rome
  • Newspaper- the london gazette

    Newspaper- the london gazette
    The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. 
  • Period: to

    INDUSTRIAL AGE

    People used the power of steam developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products.
  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type. Typically, a typewriter has an array of keys, and pressing one causes a different single character to be produced on the paper, by causing a ribbon with dried ink to be struck against the paper by a type element similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing
  • Motion picture photography/Projection

    Motion picture photography/Projection
    also called film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement.
  • Period: to

    INFORMATION AGE

    The internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network. People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and technology moreover, voice image, sound and data are digitalized.
  • Period: to

    ELECTRONIC AGE

    The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistor that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this age long distance communication become more efficient.
  • Television

    Television
    Television Programs in 1941. When commercial TV began in July 1941, New York City had three stations on the air. Although NBC had the only commercial license, CBS offered the most programs on a weekly basis
  • Transistor Radio

    Transistor Radio
    is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry,became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions 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.
  • Mainframe computers- Ibm 704

    Mainframe computers- Ibm 704
    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.
  • Web browsers: mosaic

    Web browsers: 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.
  • Blogs: blogspot

    Blogs: blogspot
  • MICROblogs: twitter

    MICROblogs: twitter