Evolution of Traditional to New Media

Cave Paintings

38,000 BCE

are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin.
Personal Insight: They use cave paintings to draw series of events

Rock Carving

30,000 BCE

is an activity where pieces of rough natural stone are shaped by the controlled removal of stone.
Personal Insight: They use rock to write what they want to say.

Stone Tablets

30,000 BCE

In recent centuries the tablets have been popularly described and depicted as round-topped rectangles but this has little basis in religious tradition.
Personal Insight: They use stone tablets to write announcements.

Smoke Signal

200 BCE

Is one of the oldest form of long distance communication.
Personal Insight: They use smoke to communicate.

Writing materials

150 BCE

Ancient writers wrote on a variety of other materials besides papyrus, including pottery, animal hides, wood, and even ancient paper.
Personal Insight: They use different writing material they have to communicate.

Traditional Paper

100 BCE

is a "wood" like material primarily used for writing, first invented in ancient China.
Personal Insight: They use wood as their traditional paper

Printing press

1440

is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink.
Personal Insight: They print information for everyone

Newspaper

1605

is a serial publication containing news about current events, other informative articles about politics, sports, arts, and so on, and advertising.
Personal Insight: They use newspaper to gather information

Magazines

1731

is a publication, usually a periodical publication, which is printed or electronically published.
Personal Insight: Same with newspaper but includes more photos

Photography

1826

is the science, art, application and practice of creating durable images by recording light.
Personal Insight: They capture events to remember

Morse Code

1835

is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment
Personal Insight: They have their own codes to communicate

Telegraph

1843

is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic messages.
Personal Insight: They use telegraph for a long distance communication

Typewriter

1874

is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type.
Personal Insight: It is used to type informations

Telephone

1876

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: use to communicate with someone who is far away

Phonograph

1877

is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound.
Personal Insight: Use to record sounds

Radio

1895

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

Television

1927

is 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

Personal Computer

1965

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

Internet

1969

is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices worldwide.
Personal Insight: Use to search information

E-mail

1972

is a method of exchanging messages between people using electronics.

Mobile phones

1979

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

Smart phones

1999

is a mobile personal computer with a mobile operating system with features useful for mobile or handheld use.
Personal Insight: Same with mobile phone but more improved and easier to use

Facebook

2004

is an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service based in Menlo Park, California.
Personal Insight: Use to communicate easier and express feelings