Evolution of Media

Cave Paintings

35,000 BCE

►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. They have been found in Europe, Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia. ►Personal Insight: They use cave paintings to let other people what happened on their time.

Stone Tablets

30,000 BCE

►The rounded tablets appear in the Middle Ages, following in size and shape contemporary hinged writing tablets for taking notes. ►Personal Insight: They use stone tablets to write notes and important announcements.

Clay tablets in Mesopotamia

2400 BCE

►Important and private clay tablets were coated with an extra layer of clay, that no one else would read it. This means of communicating was used for over 3000 years in fifteen different languages. Sumerians, Babylonians and Eblaites all had their own clay tablet libraries. ►Personal Insights: They use clay tablet to documents certain happenings.

Smoke Signal

200 BCE

►Smoke Signals were used by many cultures including the Native American Indians as a means to quickly communicate visual messages over long distances. ►Personal Insights: It makes them easier to communicate to others specially in long distances.

Acta Diurna in Rome

130 BCE

►Were daily Roman official notices.They were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places like the Forum of Rome.
►Personal Insight: They use this to let other people know what is the latest news.

Printing Press Using Wood Blocks

220

►The process of printing patterns on textiles, usually of linen, cotton or silk, by means of incised wooden blocks. It is the earliest, simplest and slowest of all methods of textile printing. ►Personal Insights: It is used to print patterns and variety of design on different types of fabrics.

Codex in the Mayan Region

401

►The text on them is short and needs more study. It appears to describe astronomy, almanacs, ceremonies, and prophecies. ►Personal Insights: Use to describe and elaborate what is the real definition of astronomy and prophecies.

Newspaper - The London Gazette

1640

The first newspaper was published in what is now Boston. It was called "Publik Occurences, Both Foreign and Domestick" and was printed by Richard Pierce and edited by Benjamin Harris. Personal Insights: Newspaper makes everyone updated.

Typewriter

1800

►The type writer was invented because people needed a faster way to communicate and tag items for sales and prices. If the typewriter would not have been invented the industrial revolution would not have been as fast and not as effective. ►Personal Insights: Faster way of communication over long distance location.

Punch Card

1801

►The punch cards laid the ground for automatic information processing. For the first time information was stored in binary format on perforated cardboard cards. ►Personal Insight: Used to communicate by using binary format.

Telephone

1876

►The essential idea of this toy was that a diaphragm can collect voice sounds from the air, as in the ear, and a string or wire can transmit such collected voice sounds for reproduction at a distance. ►Personal Insights: Seriously faster and time-efficient type of communication.

Phonograph

1877

►Its device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. ►Personal Insight: Use to record sounds and store them.

Radio

1895

►It is the technology of using radio waves to carry information, such as sound, by systematically modulating properties of electromagnetic energy waves transmitted through space. ►Personal Insight: Use to spread news, by using radio waves to transfer to another radio.

Television

1927

►A telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black-and-white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. ►Personal Insight: Use to entertain people in early days until now.

Large electronic computers- i.e. EDSAC

1949

►Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, EDSAC is an early British computer considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. ►Personal Insight: Used to store information by means of electronics.

Mainframe Computers - IBM 704

1960

►The type 704 Electronic Data-Processing Machine is a large-scale, high-speed electronic calculator controlled by an internally stored program of the single address type. ►Personal Insight: Storing data in high-speed.

Personal Computers

1976

►A multi-purpose electronic computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use. ►Personal Insight: Use to store information

Mobile phones

1979

►It is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area. ►Personal Insight: Use to communicate to other people.

Portable computers - Laptops

1980

►The primary feature that attracts users to laptops over desktops is their portability. ►Used to store data and can be carried everywhere.

Aparnet (known as Internet)

1983

►Is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices worldwide. ►Personal Insight: Use to communicate to other people world wide with much faster speed.

Smart phones

1990

►It is a mobile personal computer with a mobile operating system with features useful for mobile or handheld use. ►Personal Insight: Improved and much easier to use.

Blogs, Websites and Social Networks

Period: 1995 to 2013

•Yahoo (1995)
•Internet Explorer (1995)
• Google (1996)
• Blogs: Blogspot (1999)
•LiveJournal (1999)
•Wordpress (2003)
• Friendster (2002)
• Multiply (2003)
• Skype (2003)
•Facebook (2004)
• Twitter (2006)
•Tumblr (2007)
• YouTube (2005)
•Google Hangouts (2013)

Facebook

2004

►Facebook is a free social networking Web platform that promotes and facilitates interaction between friends, family and colleagues. ►Personal Insight: It is one of the most popular communication and entertainment now a days.