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2400 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE Clay Tablets In Mesopotamia
Clay tablets or Akkadian ṭuppu 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). -
1650 BCE
INDUSTRIAL AGE Typewriters
Media included stone, shell, clay, metal, papyrus, cloth, paper. Until recently, good penmanship was considered an important indicator of literacy. The typewriter initiated changes in that perception. -
1650 BCE
INDUSTRIAL AGE Sound storage
Thomas 1Edison used a vibrating stylus connected to a sound collecting horn to record sound vibrations as a vertical pattern of waves on the surface of a rotating tinfoil cylinder. The tinfoil was soon replaced by wax, and the cylinders, which were hard to produce economically, evolved into the familiar, and less expensive, phonograph disks -
1600 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE Cave Paintings
In prehistoric art, the term “cave paintings” encompasses any parietal art which involves the application of colour pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters. A monochrome cave paintings is a picture made with only one colour (usually black) -
1600 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE Papyrus in Egypt
people all over West Asia began buying papyrus from Egypt and using it, since it was much more convenient than clay tablets(less breakable, and not as heavy!). People made papyrus in small sheets and then glued the sheets together to make big pieces. -
131 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE Acta Diurna in Rome
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. -
ELECTRONIC AGE Teleprinter
an electromechanical device that can be used to send and receive typed messages through various communications channels, in both point-to-point and point-to-multipoint configurations. -
ELECTRONIC AGE Telegraph sounder
It was invented by Alfred Vail after 1850 to replace the previous receiving device, the cumbersome Morse register and was the first practical application of the electromagnet. When a telegraph message comes in it produces an audible "clicking" sound representing the short and long keypresses – "dots" and "dashes" – which are used to represent text characters in Morse code. A telegraph operator would translate the sounds into characters representing the telegraph message. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE Punced cards
Punch cards used a variety of formats and sizes developed by various manufacturers in addressing their data storage needs throughout time. European systems, represented by the smaller Powers-Samas card shown here, tended to be more compact than American cards. -
ELECTRONIC AGE Phonograph
The phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. In its later forms, it is also called a gramophone -
ELECTRONIC AGE Telephone
a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE Jacquard Loom Punch cards and Sample Weaving
This model, constructed in 1985, is a replica of the machine used in early programmed loom designs. Note that the punch cards controlling the loom's operation are fastened together to keep them in order, an effective method of defeating certain types of program "bugs". -
INFORMATION AGE Google
The Google company was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. -
INFORMATION AGE Facebook
Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies along with Amazon, Apple, and Google. -
INFORMATION AGE Yahoo!
Yahoo! is an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine and a directory of World Wide Web sites organized in a hierarchy of topic categories. As a directory, it provides both new and seasoned Web users the reassurance of a structured view of hundreds of thousands of Web sites and millions of Web pages. It also provides one of the best ways to search the Web for a given topic. -
REFERENCES
- Pre-Industrial Age https://cerjinn.wordpress.com/2017/07/20/first-blog-post/
- Industrial Age http://www.moah.org/brains/industrial.html
- Electronic Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_media
- Information Age https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Facebook https://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+youtube&rlz=1C1GCEB_enPH854PH854&oq=what+is+youtube&aqs=chrome.0.0l6.19079j0j4&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube
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INFORMATION AGE Youtube
YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to playlists, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos.
