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Period: 35,001 BCE to
Pre-Industrial Age
People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. -
35,000 BCE
Cave Painting
Description: Cave paintings might possibly be the oldest known form of communication that exists today. Cave paintings back to a period of time called the Paleolithic Age.
Personal Insight: Cave painting was used by ancient humans to recall or record a sequence of events in their life. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
Description: Papyrus is like a water plant that can be found in the region of Egypt, Nile. One of the example of this is the plant of Ancient Egyptians.
Personal Insight: Before papyrus, writing was a talent restricted for a tiny group of people, and it usually took the shape of a few phrases scribbled on a shard of clay or a piece of leather. -
2400 BCE
Clay tablets in Mesopotamia
Description: Clay tablets, can be used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform (were imprinted on a wet clay), throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age.
Personal Insight: They used the stem of the papyrus plant to make sails, paper and etc. -
220 BCE
Printing press using wood blocks
Description: Woodblock printing, it is the technique for printing text, images or patterns widely throughout the East Asia and originated in China in ancient as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
Personal Insight: It is used for spreading religious text and books regarding beliefs. -
200 BCE
Dibao in China (2nd Century)
Description: Dibao, is the first newspaper in the world and literally means that it is the report from the residence of China.
Personal Insight: It is used for informing the central and local governments. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome
Description: Acta Diurna, they were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places like the Forum of Rome.
Personal Insight: It is used for recording official businesses and matters of public interest. -
Period: to
Industrial Age
The Industrial Age is defined by mass production, broadcasting, the rise of the nation state, power, modern medicine and running water. The quality of human life has increased dramatically during the Industrial Age. -
Printing press for mass production (10th century)
Description: Allows us to share large amounts of information quickly and in huge numbers.
Personal Insight: It is used for enabled people to share knowledge more quickly and widely. -
Telephone
Description: A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
Personal Insight: It is used for communication with other people in faraway places. -
Motion Pictures
Description: Emphasized reproducing human motion.
Personal Insight: It is used to simulate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, and etc. through the use of moving images. -
Telegraph
Description: A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.
Personal Insight: It is used for long-distance communication. -
Period: to
Electronic Age
The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this age, long distance communication became more efficient. -
Television
Description: A telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in mono chrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound.
Personal Insight: It is used to broadcast programs. -
Mainframe Computer Large Electronic Computer
Description: Used primarily by large organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics. Enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing.
Personal Insight: It is used for E-business, health care, banking and etc. -
Transistor Radio
Description: A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry.
Personal Insight: It is a transistor radio receiver used to receive and amplify radio sound waves. -
Apple 1 Computer
Description: First apple computer that originally sold for $666.66.
Personal Insight: The first unit of Apple 1 Computer is used in high school math class. -
Apple 2 Computer
Description: An 8-Bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products.
Designed primarily by Steve Wozniak.
Personal Insight: It is important because it is promoted as an extraordinary computer for ordinary people. -
Period: to
New/Information Age
The internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network. People advance 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. -
Portable Laptop
Description: A laptop, laptop computer, or notebook computer is a small, portable personal computer with a screen and alphanumeric keyboard.
Personal Insight: It is used for education, work, and etc. -
Tablet
Description: 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 and flat package.
Personal Insight: It is used for entertainment, communicating with other people and many more.. -
Internet Explorer
Description: Internet Explorer is a deprecated series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.
Personal Insight: Internet Explorer is a free web browser, commonly called IE or MSIE, that allows users to view web pages on the internet. -
Google
Description: Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, a search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
Personal Insight: to look for text in publicly available documents hosted on web servers, rather than other types of data like photos or database data. -
Friendster
Description: Friendster was a social network game based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams and launched in March 2003.
Personal Insight: it was simply a social networking site, and its main purpose was to provide opportunities for people to make new friends and to stay in touch with old ones -
Skype
Description: Skype is a proprietary telecommunications application that specializes in providing VoIP-based videotelephony, videoconferencing and voice calls.
Personal Insight: Skype is used by millions of people and companies to make free video and audio one-to-one and group conversations, exchange instant messages, and share files with others. -
Facebook
Description: Facebook, Inc. is an American multinational technology company based in Menlo Park, California.
Personal Insight: social media with nearly 2.5 billion monthly users, Facebook is hands down the largest social media site in the world. -
Youtube
Description: Is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google.
Personal Insight: It is used to share or upload a video and earn a money. -
Twitter
Description: Twitter is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
Personal Insight: Is a type of platform that you can communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages. People post Tweets, which may contain photos, videos, links, and text. -
Instagram
Description: Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service founded by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger.
Personal Insight: it is an online photo-sharing application and social network platform that allows users to edit and upload photos and short videos through a mobile app.