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36,000 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE (BEFORE 1700)
People discovered fire,
developed paper from
plants, and forged weapons
and tools with stone,
bronze, copper and iron. -
35,000 BCE
CAVE PAINTINGS
The exact purpose of the Paleolithic cave paintings is not known. Some theories hold that cave paintings may have been a form of communication, while other theories ascribe them a religious or ceremonial purpose.
Humans had not learned to write during the prehistoric time period. -
2400 BCE
CLAY TABLETS IN MESOPOTAMIA (2004)
Clay tablets In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (Akkadian ṭuppu) were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform
Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). -
1900 BCE
PRINTING PRESS USING WOOD BLOCKS
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. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC)
Acta Diurna: World’s First Newspaper Appeared In 131 B.C It was an ancient Roman daily gazette called Acta Diurna (Daily Acts sometimes translated as Daily Public Records). Acta Diurna informed citizens of political and social happenings in ancient Rome. -
500
C ODEX IN MAYAN REGION
C Odex refers to an old type of book made with pages bound together
A codex is a manuscript and there are three Maya Codices named for the places they are currently located, Madrid, Dresden, and Paris. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE (1700's TO 1930's)
People used the power of steam,
developed machine tools,
established iron production, and the
manufacturing of various products
(including books through the printing
press). -
TELEGRAPH
The electric telegraph was an important invention born out of Joseph Henry’s electromagnetic motor. The idea is to generate a coded electric signal at one location, send it through a wire over a long distance, and decode the message at a distant location. This was first efficiently accomplished by sending electrical pulses that caused an electromagnet to rotate and strike a bell (Bellis "Telegraph"). -
TYPEWRITER
A machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto the paper. -
PRINTING PRESS
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. ... Gutenberg's most important innovation was the development of hand-molded metal printing matrices, thus producing a movable type based printing press system. -
ELECTRONIC AGE ( 1930'S TO 1980'S)
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 the
early computers. In this age, long
distance communication became
more efficient. -
TRANSISTOR RADIO
A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s. -
MAIN FRAME COMPUTERS
Mainframe computers 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. -
APPLE COMUTER 1
Apple Computer 1, also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. -
APPLE II
The Apple II is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak -
PORTABLE COMPUTERS
A portable computer was a computer designed to be easily moved from one place to another and included a display and keyboard. -
MOSAIC
Mosaic was an early Web browser, released in 1993, which is credited with rapidly expanding the popularity of the World Wide Web. Mosaic is usually described as being the first graphics web browser: due to it being able to display text and images on the same page, instead of each image being loaded in a separate page. -
NEW/ 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, voice,
image, sound and data are digitalized. We
are now living in the information age. -
SMARTPHONES
A smartphone is a cellular telephone with an integrated computer and other features not originally associated with telephones, such as an operating system, web browsing and the ability to run software applications. -
FRIENDSTER
Friendster was created in 2002 by Peter Chin, Jonathan Abrams and Dave Lee. The group wanted to find a way for people to meet new friends on the Internet, keep in contact with already existing friends and to expand personal networks in a safe manner. -
TWITTER
Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled for all languages except Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message Service (SMS) or mobile-device application software ("app").
