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Period: 36,000 BCE to
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE
People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. -
35,000 BCE
CAVE PAINTINGS
In prehistoric art, the term "cave painting" encompasses any parietal art which involves the application of color pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters. -
2500 BCE
PAPYRUS (EGYPT)
The ancient Egyptians used the stem of the papyrus plant to make sails, cloth, mats, cords, and, above all, paper. Paper made from papyrus was the chief writing material in ancient Egypt, was adopted by the Greeks, and was used extensively in the Roman Empire. -
2400 BCE
CLAY TABLETS (MESOPOTAMIA)
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. A clay tablet is a more or less flat surface made of clay. Using a stylus, symbols were pressed into the soft clay. -
500 BCE
CODEX (MALAYAN REGION)
Maya codices (singular: codex) are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The pages of the codices usually depict a deity and include a series of glyphs describing what the deity is doing. -
220 BCE
PRINTING PRESS USING WOOD BLOCKS
Woodblock printing (or block 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. In woodblock printing, an image is carved in reverse on a piece of wood, leaving the image's outline on the wood, and the block is then inked and printed on a substance like paper or fabric. -
200 BCE
DIBAO (CHINA)
Dibao (ancient Chinese gazette) was the only official government newspaper published by the ancient Chinese central government in successive dynasties, and it was issued by central and provincial governments in imperial China. Dibao was originally published as early as the Han Dynasty (206 BCE–220 CE), making it one of the world's earliest newspapers. -
130 BCE
ACTA DIURNA (ROME)
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. -
NEWSPAPER - THE LONDON GAZETTE
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record or Government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. As a publication, The Gazette consists largely of statutory notices. -
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INDUSTRIAL AGE
People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press). -
TYPEWRITER
A typewriter is a character-typing machine that can be mechanical or electromechanical. A typewriter usually contains a number of keys, each of which produces a single character on paper by striking an inked ribbon selectively against the paper with a type element. -
TELEPHONE
Alexander Graham Bell received the first US patent in 1876 for a system that produced plainly comprehensible reproduction of the human voice at a second device. Many others improved on this device, and it quickly became indispensable in industry, government, and households. -
MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY / PROJECTION
In 1890 Dickson unveiled the Kinetograph, a primitive motion picture camera. In 1892 he announced the invention of the Kinestoscope, a machine that could project the moving images onto a screen. In 1894, Edison initiated public film screenings in recently-opened "Kinetograph Parlors." -
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INFORMATION AGE
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. -
COMMERCIAL MOTION PICTURES
The Kinetoscope is an early motion picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope was designed for films to be viewed by one individual at a time through a peephole viewer window at the top of the device. -
MOTION PICTURE WITH SOUND
Vitaphone, as this system was now called, was publicly introduced on August 6, 1926, with the premiere of Don Juan; the first feature-length movie to employ a synchronized sound system of any type throughout, its soundtrack contained a musical score and added sound effects, but no recorded dialogue—in other words, it had been staged and shot as a silent film. -
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ELECTRONIC AGE
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. -
TELEVISION
In 1941, the United States implemented 525-line television. Electrical engineer Benjamin Adler played a prominent role in the development of television. The world's first 625-line television standard was designed in the Soviet Union in 1944 and became a national standard in 1946. -
EDSAC - LARGE ELECTRONIC COMPUTER
EDSAC, in full Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, the first full-size stored-program computer, built at the University of Cambridge, Eng., by Maurice Wilkes and others to provide a formal computing service for users. -
UNIVAC 1 - LARGE ELECTRONIC COMPUTER
UNIVAC, the first commercially produced digital computer, is produced. On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the first commercially produced electronic digital computer in the United States. UNIVAC, which stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was developed by a team of engineers led by J. -
IBM 704 - MAINFRAME COMPUTERS
The IBM 704 Data Processing System was a large-scale computer designed for engineering and scientific calculations. Its predecessor was the 701, and its sister computers were the 702 and 705 Data Processing Systems, designed primarily for commercial applications. -
PERSONAL COMPUTER - Hewlett Packard 9100A
The Hewlett Packard 9100A (hp 9100A) is an early programmable calculator (or computer), introduced in 1968. It was the first totally self-contained programmable unit of its kind, which could fit on a desk. -
PERSONAL COMPUTER - APPLE 1
The Apple-1 is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. It was designed by Steve Wozniak. The idea of selling the computer came from Wozniak's friend and co-founder Steve Jobs.The Apple-1 was the first Apple product to be sold. It marked the start of the personal computer industry. It was the first personal computer that came with a warranty. -
MOSAIC - WEB BROWSER
In 1993, the world's first freely available Web browser that allowed Web pages to include both graphics and text spurred a revolution in business, education, and entertainment that has had a trillion-dollar impact on the global economy. Mosaic, the progenitor of modern browsers such as Microsoft Internet Explorer and Netscape, emerged at NCSA through research funded by NSF’s Computer and Information Science and Engineering (CISE) directorate. -
WEB BROWSER - INTERNET EXPLORER
Internet Explorer (or IE) is a free graphical browser maintained by Microsoft for legacy enterprise uses. Microsoft Edge is currently the default Windows browser. Microsoft first bundled IE with Windows in 1995 as part of the package called "Microsoft Plus!". -
SEARCH ENGINE - YAHOO
In 1995, they introduced a search engine function, called Yahoo! Search, that allowed users to search Yahoo! Directory. it was the first popular search engine on the Web, despite not being a true Web crawler search engine. They later licensed Web search engines from other companies. -
SEARCH ENGINE - GOOGLE
Google was launched as a research project by founders Larry Page and Sergey Brin in 1996, and despite trying to sell the idea for less than a million dollars in 1999, it has grown to become the world's most preferred way to search the internet, and one of the most valuable companies in the world. -
BLOGS - BLOSPOT
Pyra Labs launched a program called “Blogspot” in 1999 that would let people run their own blogs. The program was bought by Google in 2003, and changed to Blogger in 2006. -
BLOGS - LIVEJOURNAL
LiveJournal (Russian: Живой Журнал), stylised as LiVEJOURNAL, is a Russian-owned social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal, or diary. American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. -
FRIENDSTER - SOCIAL NETWORK
Friendster was founded by Jonathan Abrams, a Canadian computer programmer, in March 2002. The site started in a basement with ten friends and went live that same month. It grew to several hundred users within a few weeks and grew to over 3 million users by early 2003. -
BLOGS - WORDPRESS
WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, American developer Matt Mullenweg and English developer Mike Little, as a fork of b2/cafelog. WordPress is a free, open-source website creation platform -
SKYPE - VIDEO CHAT
The foremost voice-over-IP service was launched in August 2003. Skype actually stands for “Sky Peer to Peer.” The original Skype application permitted voice calls from PC to PC and little else. -
FACEBOOK - SOCIAL NETWORK
On February 4, 2004, a Harvard sophomore named Mark Zuckerberg launches The Facebook, a social media website he had built in order to connect Harvard students with one another. The original purpose of Facebook, or "The Facebook" as it was known then, was to allow Harvard students to use their ". edu" email addresses and photos to connect with other students at the school. Then-student Mark Zuckerberg foresaw a way of bringing the existing social experience of college onto the Internet. -
YouTube
The website had some pretty basic functions including tabs leading to one's profile, direct messages, uploaded videos, favorited videos, and a homepage that prompted for a screen name and password. -
TWITTER - MICROBLOGS
Twitter is a free social networking microblogging service that allows registered members to broadcast short posts called tweets. On July 15, 2006, the San Francisco-based podcasting company Odeo officially releases Twttr—later changed to Twitter—its short messaging service (SMS) for groups, to the public.