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1700 BCE
Pre- Industrial Age
People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron.
Cave paintings (35,000 BC)
*Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)
*Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC)
*Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC) -
Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)
People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press. *Printing press for mass production (19th century)
Newspaper- The London Gazette (1640)
Typewriter (1800)
Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)
Telephone (1876)
Motion picture photography/projection (1890)
Commercial motion pictures (1913)
Motion picture with sound (1926)
Telegraph
Punch cards -
Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)
The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age.
People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio
*Transistor Radio
Television (1941)
Large electronic computers- i.e. EDSAC (1949) and UNIVAC 1 (1951)
Electronic Age (1930s-1980s)
Mainframe computers –
-i.e. IBM 704 (1960)
Personal computers
- i.e. HewlettPackard 9100A (1968), Apple 1 (1976)
OHP, LCD projectors
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Information Age (1900s-2000s)
invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized
*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) YouTube (2005) Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality Video chat: Skype (2003), Google Hangouts (2013) Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995).
