Timeline: The Evolutions of Traditional to New Media

35,000 BCE

Pre industrial Ages (Before 1700s) CAVE PAINTING (35,000 BC)

– are drawings painted on the ceilings and walls of caves
– communication purposes
– ceremonial or religious purposes

2500 BCE

Pre industrial Ages (Before 1700s) PAPYRUS IN EGYPT (2500 BC)

– 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 width.
– papyrus roll (scroll)

2400 BCE

Pre industrial Ages (Before 1700s) CLAY TABLETS (2400 BC)

– used for accounting, literary, administrative documents.
– Cuneiform
– written on wet clay with a sharpened stick, or stylus.

401 BCE

Pre industrial Ages (Before 1700s) CODEX IN THE MAYAN (5th Century)

– folding books written

220 BCE

Pre industrial Ages (Before 1700s) PRINTING PRESS USING WOOD BLOCKS (220 AD)

– woodblock printing is a technique for printing texts images or patterns.

130 BCE

Pre industrial Ages (Before 1700s) ACTA DIURMA IN ROME (130 BC)

– "Daily Acts" or "Daily Public Records"
– first newspaper
– carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places.
– earliest and oldest newspaper in the world.

1600

INDUSTRIAL AGES (1700s-1930s) PRINTING PRESS FOR MASS PRODUCTION (19th Century)

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

1640

INDUSTRIAL AGES (1700s-1930s) NEWSPAPER — THE LONDON GAZETTE (1640)

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

1830

INDUSTRIAL AGES (1700s-1930s) TELEGRAPH (1830s-1840s)

– revolutionized long distance communication.
– it worked by transmitting electrical signals over a laid between stations.

1868

INDUSTRIAL AGES (1700s-1930s) 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.

1876

INDUSTRIAL AGES (1700s-1930s) TELEPHONE (1876)

– Alexander Graham Bell's Large Box Telephone, 1876
– Apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically.

1890

INDUSTRIAL AGES (1700s-1930s) MOTION PICTURES PHOTOGRAPHY/PROJECTION (1890)

1890

INDUSTRIAL AGES (1700s-1930s) PUNCH CARDS

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

1913

INDUSTRIAL AGES (1700s-1930s) COMMERCIAL MOTION PICTURES WITH SOUND (1913)

– a sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound.

1941

ELECTRONIC AGE (1930s–1980s) TELEVISION (1941)

– 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.