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35,000 BCE
CAVE PAINTINGS (35,000BC)
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)-see, for instance, the monochrome images at Chauvet -
2500 BCE
PAPYRUS IN EGYPT (2500BC)
first papyrus was only used in Egypt, but by about 1000 BC 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. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome (130BC)
Acta Diurna were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette. 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. History[edit]. The first form of Acta appeared around 131 BC during the Roman Republic. -
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Dibao In China (2nd Century)
The earliest and oldest newspaper in the world. The country was divided into many eparches and counties. These offices were called “Di”s. Their responsibilities included collecting the messages announced by the administrative agents or even the empire, then writing them on the bamboo placard or the damask, and deliver them to their shire leaders via the early post station for reading. So these placards or damasks with information were called “Dibao”s -
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Codex In The Mayan Region (5th Century)
Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Mayacivilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark cloth. … The Maya developed their huun-paper around the 5th century, which is roughly the same time that the codexbecame predominant over the scroll in the Roman world. -
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Printing Press for mass production (19thCent)
A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses.
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Printing Press using wood blocks (220AD)
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. Prior to the invention of woodblock printing, seals and stamps were used for making impressions. -
Newspaper the London Gazette (1640)
The London Gazette, The Edinburgh Gazette and The Belfast Gazette are published in the United Kingdom and their archives are a useful source of information for finding out about your family history. This article describes a brief history of the Gazettes, where they can be accessed, what they contain, and problems they may raise. The same access information applies to the Edinburgh and Belfast Gazettes.
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PRE – INDUSTRIAL AGE – BEFORE 1700’s
PEOPLE DISCOVERED FIRE, DEVELOPED PAPER FROM PLANTS AND FORGED WEAPONS AND TOOLS WITH STONES, BRONZE, COPPER AND IRON. -
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INDUSTRIAL AGE – 1700’s to 1930’s
The Industrial Age is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments. https://cerjinn.wordpress.com/2017/07/24/the-industrial-age-1700s-1930s/ -
Typewriter (1800)
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although Sholes soon disowned the machine and refused to use, or even to recommend it.
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Telegraph ( 1830s and 1840s)
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors, the telegraphrevolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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Telephone (1876)
Alexander Graham Bell’s Large BoxTelephone, 1876. On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device he called the telephone.
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Motion Pictures Photography/Projection (1890)
This article is about the history of motion–picture technology. For the history of film as an artistic medium, see History of film. Cinématographe Lumière at the Institut Lumière, France. The history of film technology traces the development of film technology from the initial
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INFORMATION AGE – 1900’s to 2000’s
THE INTERNET PAVED THE WAY FOR FASTER COMMUNICATION AND THE CREATION OF THE SOCIAL NETWORK. PEOPLE ADVANCED THE USE OF MICROELECTRONICS WITH THE INVENTION OF PERSONAL COMPUTERS MOBILE DEVICES AND WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY. MOREOVER., VOICES, IMAGE, SOUND AND DATA ARE DIGITALIZED. WE ARE NOW LIVING IN THE INFORMATION AGE. -
Commercial Motion Pictures w/ sound (1913)
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to …. In1913, Edison introduced a new cylinder-based synch-sound apparatus known, just like his 1895 system, as the Kinetophone; … By the mid-1910s, the groundswell in commercial sound motion picture exhibition had subsided.
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ELECTRONIC AGE – 1930’s to 1980’s
THE INVENTION OF TRANSISTOR USHERED IN THE ELECTRONIC AGE. PEOPLE HARMESED OF THE POWER OF TRANSISITOR LEAD TO THE TRANSISTOR RADIO, ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS, AND THE EARLY COMPUTERS. IN THIS AGE, LONG DISTANCE COMMUNICATION BECAME MORE EFFICIENT. -
TELEVISION 1941
Television Programs in 1941. When commercial TV began in July 1941, New York City had three stations on the air. Although NBC had the only commercial license, CBS offered the most programs on a weekly basis.
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large electronic computers EDSAC 1949
It was created at the University of Cambridge in England, performed its first calculation on May 6,1949, and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby." In the picture to the right, is an example of the EDSAC computer. https://www.computerhope.com/jargon/e/edsac.htm -
OHP, LCD PROJECTOR
The overhead projector facilitates an easy low-cost interactive environment for educators. Teaching materials can be pre-printed on plastic sheets, upon which the educator can directly write using a non-permanent, washable color marking pen. This saves time, since the transparency can be pre-printed and used repetitively, rather than having materials written manually before each class.
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Punch Cards (1950’s)
History of the punch card. The standard punched card, originally invented by Herman Hollerith, was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states. After this trial use,punched cards were adopted for use in the 1890 census.
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large electronic computers (UNIVAC)1951
On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, world’s first commercially produced electronic digital computer. UNIVAC, which stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was developed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, makers of ENIAC, first general-purpose electronic digital computer. These giant computers, used thousands of vacuum tubes for computation, were the forerunners of today’s digital computers. https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/univac-computer-dedicated -
TRANSISTOR RADIO 1954
For the first 50 years after its invention, the radio was essentially a piece of furniture. Families sat huddled around a wooden appliance, which used a large amount of energy and was too fragile to be carried around because of the breakable vacuum tubes inside.
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main frame computers i.e ibm 704 1960
The first mass-produced computer with core memory and floating-point arithmetic, whose designers included John Backus, formerly of IBM Watson Laboratory at Columbia University , as well as Gene Amdahl (who would go on to become chief architect for the IBM 360 and later start his own company to rival IBM). The 704's 6-bit BCD character set and 36-bit word account for FORTRAN's 6-character limit on identifiers.
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PERSONAL COMPUTER: The Hewlett-Packard 9100A (hp 9100A) 1968
an early programmable calculator, first appearing in 1968.Called it a desktop calculator because,as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer,it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. We therefore decided to call it a calculator,and all such nonsense disappeared."
Ad for 9100A in 1968 Science magazine contains earliest documented use (as of 2000) of the phrase personal computer.
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PERSONAL COMPUTER: APPLE 1 (1976)
The Apple I being auctioned by Christie’s was bought by Charles Ricketts from Steve Jobs on July 27, 1976.The computer, officially known as the Ricketts Apple I, was successfully booted up by Apple I expert Corey Cohen in October; he ran the original Apple I operating system, Microsoft BASIC, and an original Apple I Star Trek game to confirm that it’s in full working order.
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AUGMENTED REALITY OR VIRTUAL REALITY
the computer-generated simulation of a three-dimensional image or environment that can be interacted with in a seemingly real or physical way by a person using special electronic equipment, such as a helmet with a screen inside or gloves fitted with sensors. https://whatis.techtarget.com/definition/virtual-reality -
WEB BROWSERS: MOSAIC 1993
NCSA Mosaic was neither the first web browser (first was the WorldWideWeb of Berners-Lee) nor the first graphical web browser(it was preceded by the lesser-known Erwise and ViolaWWW), it was the web browser credited with popularizing the World Wide Web. Its clean, easily understood user interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to making it the application that opened up the Web to the general public.
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WEB BROWSER: INTERNET EXPLORER 1995
Internet Explorer (IE), World Wide Web (WWW) browser and set of technologies created by Microsoft Corporation, a leading American computer software company. After being launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became one of the most popular tools for accessing the Internet. There were 11 versions between 1995 and 2013
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SEARCH ENGINE: GOOGLE 1996 & YAHOO 1995
Search engine is a service that allows Internet users to search for content via the World Wide Web (WWW). A user enters keywords or key phrases into a search engine and receives a list of Web content results in the form of websites, images, videos or other online data. The list of content returned via a search engine to a user is known as a search engine results page (SERP).
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BLOG: BLOGSPOT 1999, LIVE JOURNAL 1999, WORDPRESS 2003
Practically everyone reads blogs now, whether they’re “official” news blogs associated with traditional news media, topic-based blogs related to one’s work or hobbies, or blogs purely for entertainment, just about anyone you ask has at least one favorite blog. https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/03/a-brief-history-of-blogging/ -
SOCIAL NETWORKS: FRIENDSTER 2002, MULTIPLY 2003 & FACEBOOK 2004
Social networking is the use of Internet-based social media sites to stay connected with friends, family, colleagues, customers, or clients. Social networkingcan have a social purpose, a business purpose, or both, through sites such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and Instagram, among others. https://www.investopedia.com/terms/s/social-networking.asp -
VIDEO CHATS: SKYPE 2003 & GOOGLE HANGOUTS 2013
Video chat an online face-to-face, visual communication performed with other Internet users by using a webcam and dedicated software. Video chat is usually used when video-based communication is incorporated into a preexisting service. For instance, when Facebook incorporated Skype video-based communication in 2011, it said that it was adding a video chat.Video chat is also known as video conferencing and video calling.
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YOUTUBE 2005
YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones. https://www.webwise.ie/parents/what-is-youtube/ -
MICROBLOGS: TWITTER 2006, TUMBLR 2007
Microblogging is a combination of blogging and instant messaging that allows users to create short messages to be posted and shared with an audience online. Social platforms like Twitter have become extremely popular forms of this new type of blogging, especially on the mobile web — making it much more convenient to communicate with people compared to the days when desktop web browsing and interaction was the norm.
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Clay Tablets In Mesopotamia (2400BC)
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (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).
