Timeline of the Evolution of Traditional to New Media

  • 38,000 BCE

    Cave Paintings

    Cave Paintings
    Cave painting. Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times. Rock paintings have been made since the Upper Paleolithic, 40,000 years ago. -Science Daily
  • Period: 38,000 BCE to 500

    Pre-Industrial Age

    People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron.
  • 2500 BCE

    Papyrus (Egypt)

    Papyrus (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. -University of Michigan Library
  • 2400 BCE

    Clay tablets (Mesopotamia)

    Clay tablets (Mesopotamia)
    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. -Wikipedia
  • 206 BCE

    Dibao (China)

    Dibao (China)
    The Chinese “Dibao” is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world. During West Han time, Han government carried out the “Jun xian zhi” 郡县制, the eparch and county system which is helpful in concentrating the central power. The country was divided into many eparches and counties but governed by the central government as a whole. -Wordpress
  • 130 BCE

    Acta Diurna (Rome)

    Acta Diurna (Rome)
    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. They were also called simply Acta. -Wikipedia
  • 500

    Codex (Mayan Region)

    Codex (Mayan Region)
    Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, written in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican paper, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being the wild fig tree or Amate (Ficus Glabrata), this paper was named by the Mayas Huun, and contained many Glyph and paintings. -Wordpress
  • Period: to

    Industrial Age

    People used the power of team, developed machine tools, established iron protection, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press)
  • The London Gazette

    The London Gazette
    The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. -Sutori
  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    The concept of a typewriter dates back at least to 1714, when Englishman Henry Mill filed a vaguely-worded patent for "an artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another." -xavier.edu
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    A "telegraph" is a device for transmitting and receiving messages over long distances, i.e., for telegraphy. The word "telegraph" alone now generally refers to an electrical telegraph. -Wikipedia
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell is the father of the telephone. After all it was his design that was first patented, however, he was not the first inventor to come up with the idea of a telephone. Antonio Meucci, an Italian immigrant, began developing the design of a talking telegraph or telephone in 1849. -America's Library
  • Motion picture photography/ projection

    Motion picture photography/ projection
    Motion picture, also called film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. -Britannica
  • Printing press for mass production

    Printing press for mass production
    The printing press is a device that allows for the mass production of uniform printed matter, mainly text in the form of books, pamphlets and newspapers. Created in China and revolutionizing society there, the press was further developed in Europe in the 15th Century. -HISTORY.com
  • Period: to

    Information Age 1900s-present

    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, and sound data are digitalized. We are now living in the information age.
  • Commercial Motion Picture

    Commercial Motion Picture
    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 it would be decades before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical. -New World Encyclopedia
  • Period: to

    Electronic Age

    The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. in this age, log distance communication became more efficient.
  • Television

    Television
    Television Programs in 1941. When commercial TV began in July 1941, New York City had three stations on the air. Although NBC had the only commercial license, CBS offered the most programs on a weekly basis. -Television Obscurities
  • Transistor

    Transistor
    A transistor is a device that regulates current or voltage flow and acts as a switch or gate for electronic signals. Transistors consist of three layers of a semiconductor material, each capable of carrying a current. -WhatIs.com
  • Transistor radio

    Transistor radio
    A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s. -Wikipedia
  • Mainframe computers

    Mainframe computers
    Big businesses with big needs required big computers. Economies of scale also favored large, consolidated computer systems. This demand for big computers, just when “second generation” transistor-based computers were replacing vacuum-tube machines in the late 1950s, spurred developments in hardware and software. Manufacturers commonly built small numbers of each model, targeting narrowly defined markets. -Computer History Museum
  • Laptop

    Laptop
    Compaq Armada laptop from the late 1990s. Apple MacBook Air, an ultraportable laptop weighing under 3.0 lb (1.36 kg) Lenovo's ThinkPad business laptop, originally an IBM product. Asus Transformer Pad, a hybrid tablet, powered by Android OS. Microsoft Surface Pro 3, 2-in-1 detachable. -Wikipedia
  • Mosaic (Web Browser)

    Mosaic (Web Browser)
    Mosaic Browser. NCSA Mosaic was neither the first web browser (first was the WorldWideWeb of Berners-Lee) nor the first graphical web browser (it was preceded by the lesser-known Erwise and ViolaWWW), but it was the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. -history-computer.com
  • Tablet

    Tablet
    A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single thin, flat package. -Wikipedia
  • Internet Explorer

    Internet Explorer
    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. -Wikipedia
  • Google

    Google
    Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple and Facebook. -Wikipedia
  • Friendster

    Friendster
    Friendster was a U.S. social networking site based in Mountain View, CA, founded in 2003 by Jonathan Abrams. The company was sold in 2015 and became a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was originally a social networking service website. -Wikipedia
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Friendster was a U.S. social networking site based in Mountain View, CA, founded in 2003 by Jonathan Abrams. The company was sold in 2015 and became a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was originally a social networking service website. -Wikipedia
  • Netbook

    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). -Wikipedia