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Period: 1700 BCE to
Period: Jan 2, 1700 to Jan 1, 1930 INDUSTRIAL AGE
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Period: Jan 1, 1600 to Jan 1, 1700 PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE
People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. -
1700 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. -
1700 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. -
1700 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. -
1700 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). -
1700 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 paper. -
1700 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. -
1700 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. -
1876 TELEPHONE
A system that converts acoustic vibrations to electrical signals in order to transmit sound, typically voices, over a distance using wire or radio. -
1890 PUNCH CARDS
A card perforated according to a code, for controlling the operation of a machine, used in voting machines and formerly in programming and entering data into computers. -
Period: to
Period: Jan 1, 1900 to Jan 1, 2000 INFORMATION/DIGITAL AGE
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1913 COMMERCIAL MOTION PICTURE
A film, also called a movie, motion picture, theatrical film, or photoplay, is a series of still images which, when shown on a screen, creates the illusion of moving images due to the phi phenomenon. -
1926 MOTION PICTURES WITH SOUND
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but decades passed before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical. -
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Period: Jan 2, 1930 to Jan 1, 1980 ELECTRONIC AGE
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1941 TELEVISION
A system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education. -
1960 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. -
1976 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. -
1980 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. -
1995 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. -
1995 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. -
2000 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. -
2004 SOCIAL NETWORK
A dedicated website or other application that enables users to communicate with each other by posting information, comments, messages, images, etc. -
2006 MICROBLOGS
A social media site to which a user makes short, frequent posts.
