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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The term usually implies prehistoric origin, but cave paintings can also be of recent production: -
Period: 35,000 BCE to
Pre-Industrial Ages
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. Pre-industrial civilization dates back to centuries ago, but the main era known as the Pre-industrial society occurred right before the industrial society. Culture of a given area or history of social and political life. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
The papyrus plant is a reed that grows in marshy areas around the Nile river. In ancient Egypt, the wild plant was used for a variety of uses, and specially cultivated papyrus, grown on plantations, was used to make the writing material. The inside of the triangular stalk was cut or peeled into long strips. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets in Messopotamia
were a medium used for writing. They were common in the Fertile Crescent, from about the 5th millennium BC. 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 until dry and hard, either by leaving it out in the sun, or in a fire. Sun-baked tablets could be moistened and recycled. The ones that survived thousands of years were baked in fire. -
220 BCE
Printing press using wood blocks
(or block 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. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 AD. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurma in Rome
(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. -
5 BCE
Codex in the Mayan region
(singular codex) 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. -
2 BCE
Dibao in China
(ti-pao), 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-The London Gazette
is one of the official
journals of record of the
British government. -
Period: to
Industrial Ages
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, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments. -
Typewriter
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, -
Telegraph
revolutionized long-
distance communication. It worked by transmitting
electrical signals over a
wire laid between stations. -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell’s
Large Box Telephone,
1876.
Apparatus for
transmitting vocal or
other sounds
telegraphically, -
Motion Pictures Photography/Projection
The motion picture camera (see under camera
was developed from simple multi-image devices that, when spun or flipped, displayed the parts of a continuous movement, which, combined with the ocular principle of persistence of vision, produces the illusion of movement. The camera takes a series of photographs on negative film; when the positive is moved through a projector at a speed consistent with that of the camera, they throw a realistically perceived moving image on a wall or screen. -
Punch Cards
Was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states.. -
Printing Press for mass production
is a device for applying
pressure to an inked
surface resting upon a
print medium (such as
paper or cloth), thereby
transferring the ink. -
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 wearable
technology. • Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. We are
now living in the information age. -
Period: to
INFORMATION AGE
Examples:
Web browsers: Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer (1995)
Blogs: Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999), Wordpress (2003)
Social networks: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Facebook (2004)
Microblogs: Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007)
Video : Youtube (2005)
Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality.
• Video chat: Skype (2003),Google Hangouts (2013) Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995) Portable computers- laptops (1980), netbooks (2008), tablets (1993) Smart phones -
Commercial Motion Pictures w/ Sound
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound -
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 , long distance
communication become more efficient. Examples: Transistor Radio Television (1941)
Large Electronic Computer – i.e EDSAC (1949) and UNIVAC (1951)
Mainframe Computer – i.e IBM 704 (1960)
Personal Computer – i.e Hewlett-Packard 9100A (1968) and Apple 1 (1976)
OHP, LCD Projectors -
Television
is a telecommunication
medium used for
transmitting moving
images in monochrome
(black-and-white), or in
color, and in two or three
dimensions and sound. -
Large Electronic Computers
Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was the first electronic general-purpose computer. It was Turing-complete, digital and able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming. ... ENIAC was completed in 1945 and first put to work for practical purposes on December 10, 1945 -
Virtual Reality
the computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors. -
Mainframe Computers
the world’s first mass
produced computer to
feature floating point
arithmetic hardware. -
Personal Computer
The 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. The idea of selling the computer came from Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs -
Laptop
The first "laptop-sized notebook computer" was the Epson HX-20, invented (patented) by Suwa Seikosha's Yukio Yokozawa in July 1980, introduced at the COMDEX computer show in Las Vegas by Japanese company Seiko Epson in 1981, and released in July 1982. -
Augmented reality
(AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. -
Smartphones
a mobile phone that performs many of the functions of a computer, typically having a touchscreen interface, Internet access, and an operating system capable of running downloaded applications -
Mosiac
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. The browser was named for its support of multiple internet protocols. -
Tablet
The history of tablet computers and the associated special operating software is an example of pen computing technology, and thus the development of tablets has deep historical roots. The first patent for a system that recognized handwritten characters by analyzing the handwriting motion was granted in 1914.The first publicly demonstrated system using a tablet and handwriting recognition instead of a keyboard for working with a modern digital computer dates to 1956. -
Yahoo
The "yahoo.com" domain was created on January 18, 1995. The word "yahoo" is a backronym for "Yet Another Hierarchically Organized Oracle" or "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle". The term "hierarchical" described how the Yahoo database was arranged in layers of subcategories. -
Internet Explorer
In July 1995 Microsoft released Internet Explorer 1.0 as an add-on to the Windows 95 operating system. By November the company had produced IE 2.0 for both Apple Inc.'s Macintosh and Microsoft's Windows 32-bit operating systems. 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. -
Google
Google has its origins in "BackRub", a research project that was begun in 1996 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California. ... Both Brin and Page were working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). -
Blogspot
A blogger is a person who writes content in a weblog (called a blog for short). ... Blogger and Blogspot is also a service that allows users to create their own blogs. Blogger was originally started by Pyra Labs on August 23, 1999, and is now owned by Google who acquired the service on February 17, 2003. -
LiveJournal
LiveJournal (Russian: Живой Журнал), stylised as LiveJournal, is a Russian social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary. American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. -
Friendster
Social networking website that connects individuals across the world with the hopes of helping them develop friendships. The Friendster network was launched in 2002 and is considered the predecessor to similar sites Myspace and Facebook. Friendster's popularity has decreased since its inception as more and more social networks with a similar platform are developed. -
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. -
Skype
First released in August 2003, Skype was created by the Swede Niklas Zennström and the Dane Janus Friis, in cooperation with Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn, Estonians who developed the backend that was also used in the music-sharing application Kazaa. ... Skype implements a freemium business model. -
Wordpress
WordPress is a content management system based on PHP and MySQL that is usually used with the MySQL or MariaDB database servers but can also use the SQLite database engine. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to inside WordPress as Themes.
WordPress is most associated with blogging (its original purpose when first created) but has evolved to support other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries. -
Facebook
is a social networking service launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. -
Youtube
In February 2005 three former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, launched the YouTube website for publishing and sharing video files. The first video called "Me at the zoo" was uploaded to YouTube on 23 April, 2005 by one of the co-founders, Jawed Karim -
Cloud and Big Data
Big Data is a phrase used to mean a massive volume of both structured and unstructured data that is so large it is difficult to process using traditional database and software techniques. In most enterprise scenarios the volume of data is too big or it moves too fast or it exceeds current processing capacity. the practice of using a network of remote servers hosted on the Internet to store, manage, and process data, rather than a local server or a personal computer. -
Twitter
was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams, launched in July of that year. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity. In 2012, more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion search queries per day. -
Tumblr
is a blogging site that began in New York City in 2007 by founders David Karp and Marco Arment. The site allows users to post text, images, videos, links, quotes and audio to a short-form blog, called a tumbleblog. Users can follow other users, or choose to make their tumblelog private. -
Netbook
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). -
Google Hangouts
Google Hangouts is a communication software product developed by Google. Originally a feature of Google+, Hangouts became a standalone product in 2013, when Google also began integrating features from Google+ Messenger and Google Talk into Hangouts. -
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.
