Timeline: THE EVOLUTION OF TRADITIONAL TO NEW MEDIA

35,000 BCE

CAVE PAINTING (35,000 BC)

These are drawing painted on the ceilings and walls of the caves. They used it for communication, ceremonial or religious purposes.

2500 BCE

PAPYRUS IN EGYPT (2500 BCE)

It is the world’s first paper. The papyrus was limited to a standard size running 47 cm in length at the most (29-33 cm on the average), and 22 cm in a width. It is also called Papyrus Roll/Scroll.

2400 BCE

CLAY TABLETS IN MESOPOTAMIA (2400 BCE)

Used for accounting, literary, administrative documents. It was written in a wet clay sharpened stick, or stylus. The shape of it is cuneiform.

130 BCE

ACTA DIURMA IN ROME (130 BC)

It is the first and oldest newspaper in the world. It was also called “Daily Acts” or “Daily Public Records”.
It was carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places.

220

PRINTING PRESS USING WOODBLOCKS (220)

Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns.

500

CODEX IN THE MAYAN (500)

Are folding books written by pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper.

1600

PRINTING PRESS FOR THE MASS PRODUCTION (1600)

It is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.

1800

TYPEWRITER (1800)

The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

1876

TELEPHONE (1876)

It was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. It was his Large Box Telephone. It is an apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically.

1890

MOTION PICTURES PHOTOGRAPHY/PROJECTION (1890)

Also called as film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light.

1900

TELEGRAPH (1900)

Revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.

1910

PUNCH CARDS (1910)

It was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states.

1913

COMMERCIAL MOTION PICTURES WITH SOUND (1913)

A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound.

1940

NEWSPAPER–THE LONDON GAZETTE (1640)

It is one of the official journals of record of the British government.

1941

TELEVISION (1941)

It is a telecommunications medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black-and-white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound.

1949