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Traditional and New Media

  • Period: 35,001 BCE to

    Prehistoric Age

    People come upon fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron.
  • 35,000 BCE

    Cave Painting

    Cave Painting
    Description: The word "cave painting" surrounds any parietal art which involves the application of color pigments on the walls, floors, or ceilings of ancient rock shelters.
    Personal Insight: In cave paintings, they used dirt or charcoal to paint.
  • 2500 BCE

    Papyrus in Egypt

    Papyrus in Egypt
    Description: Papyrus, from which we get the modern word paper, is a writing material made from the papyrus plant, a reed that fattens in the marshy areas around the Nile river.
    Personal Insight: They used the stem of the papyrus plant to make sails, paper and etc.
  • 2400 BCE

    Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia

    Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia
    Description: Clay tablets were a form used for writing. They were recurrent in the Fertile Crescent, from about the 5th millennium BC. A clay tablet is a extra or less flat surface made of clay.
    Personal Insight: Clay tablets are used for writing in cuneiform.
  • 220 BCE

    Printing Press using Wood Blocks

    Printing Press using Wood Blocks
    Description: It is a procedure for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a process 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)

    Dibao in China (2nd Century)
    Description: It is a type of publication issued by central and local governments in imperial China. They have been called "palace reports" or "imperial bulletins".
    Personal Insight: It is used for informing the central and local governments.
  • 130 BCE

    Acta Diurna in Rome

    Acta Diurna in Rome
    Description: The Acta Diurna (also known as Acta Populi or Acta Publica) was a record of official activity and items of public concern that was supposed to date back to before 59 BCE.
    Personal Insight: It is used for recording official businesses and matters of public interest.
  • Period: to

    Industrial Age

    The Industrial Age is delineate by mass production, broadcasting, the rise of the nation state, power, modern medicine and running water. The quality of human life has increased exciting during the Industrial Age.
  • Printing Press for Mass Production (10th Century)

    Printing Press for Mass Production (10th Century)
    Description: 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.
    Personal Insight: It is used for enabled people to share knowledge more quickly and widely.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Description: A telephone is an instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice. Telephones are inexpensive and simple to operate, and they offer an immediate, personal type of communication.
    Personal Insight: It is used for communication with other people in faraway places.
  • Motion Pictures

    Motion Pictures
    Description: The motion picture accomplish the economy in many ways. One way included creating many jobs for people, creating a motion picture industry in Hollywood, California, and creating actors.
    Personal Insight: It is used to simulate experiences that communicate ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, and etc. through the use of moving images.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    Description: Telegraph is sent electric signals over a wire allowing the nation to communicate.
    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 power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and early computers.
  • Television

    Television
    Description: Electronic television requires a cathode ray tube (picture tube) to display the picture, and some sort of electronic camera tube to capture the image.
    Personal Insight: It is used to broadcast programs.
  • Mainframe Computer Large Electronic Computer

    Mainframe Computer Large Electronic Computer
    Description: 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.
    Personal Insight: It is used for E-business, health care, banking and etc.
  • Transistor Radio

    Transistor Radio
    Description: 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 early computers. In this age, long-distance communication became more efficient.
    Personal Insight: It is a transistor radio receiver used to receive and amplify radio sound waves.
  • Apple 1 Computer

    Apple 1 Computer
    Description: The Apple Computer 1, originally released as the Apple Computer and known later as the Apple I.
    Personal Insight: The first unit of Apple 1 Computer is used in high school math class.
  • Apple 2 Computer

    Apple 2 Computer
    Description: The self-contained unit housed electronics, a keyboard, and a power supply, with the BASIC language in permanent memory. A TV served as the display.
    Personal Insight: It is important because it is promoted as an extraordinary computer for ordinary people.
  • Period: to

    New / Information Age

    Is a historical period that began in the mid-20th century, characterized by a rapid epochal shift from the traditional industry established by the Industrial Revolution to an economy primarily based upon information technology.
  • Laptop

    Laptop
    Description: This is a small, portable personal computer with a screen and alphanumeric keyboard.
    Personal Insight: It is used for education, work, and etc.
  • Internet Explorer

    Internet Explorer
    Description: Internet Explorer is a discontinued series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.
    Personal Insight: It is used to allow users to view web pages on the internet. It is also used to access online banking, online marketing over the internet, listen to and watch streaming videos, and many more.
  • Google

    Google
    Description: Search for information about (someone or something) on the internet using the search engine Google.
    Personal Insight: It is used for searching for something that you didn't know.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Description: Defined as an online social networking website where people can create profiles, share information such as photos and quotes about themselves, and respond or link to the information posted by others.
    Personal Insight: It is used to connect with other people, to post something and etc.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Description: It is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google.
    Personal Insight: It is used for watching videos.
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    Description: It is a service for friends, family, and coworkers to communicate and stay connected through the exchange of quick, frequent messages.
    Personal Insight: It is used to tweet your unsaid feelings and thoughts.
  • Instagram

    Instagram
    Description: Is an American photo and video sharing social networking service.
    Personal Insight: It is used for posting pictures.