Evolution of Media

  • 1700 BCE

    Pre-Industrial Period

    Pre-Industrial Period
    Papyrus was only used in Egypt but later on was used also by those who are in west Asia because it is much more convenient than clay tablets.
  • 1700 BCE

    Pre-Industrial Period

    Pre-Industrial Period
    In the Ancient Near East, Clay Tablets were used as a medium of writing, especially for cuneiform writing, throughout the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters are printed on a wet clay tablet with a style often made of reed (reed pen).
  • 1700 BCE

    Pre-Industrial Period

    Pre-Industrial Period
    Cave paintings are hand stencils and simple geometric shapes, the oldest incomparable examples of symbolic cave paintings are relatively younger, close to 35,000 years old. A study in 2018 stated an age of 64,000 years for the oldest examples of non-figurative cave art on the Iberian Peninsula.
  • Industrial Age

    Industrial Age
    Typewriters were much more comfortable than writing in hand. This helped the industrial revolution by allowing people to write manuals for the workers and mass produce them much more easier. Now days, the evolved form of typewriters are computers which have many more functions that a type writer.
  • Industrial Age

    Industrial Age
    Motion pictures were initially exhibited as a fairground novelty and developed into one of the most important tools of communication and entertainment in the 20th century.
  • Electronic period

    Electronic period
    Television
    -invented in 1927
    -telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome or in color and in two or three dimensions and sound
    - it provides informations to people
  • Industrial Age

    Industrial Age
    The industrial printing press was one of the most influential inventions of the Age of Revolution. It allowed thousands of copies of all types of written texts and images to be printed quickly and cheaply. In the early 1800s, the German inventor William Koenig moved to London, where he patented his design.
  • Electronic Period

    Electronic Period
    Transistor
    -released in 1954
    - small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry.
    -it's useful for communicating people through the radio
  • Electronic period

    Electronic period
    Personal Computer
    -invented in 1974
    -it is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use.
    -It's useful for storing files
  • Digital Period

    Digital Period
    A laptop is a small portable personal computer, typically having a thin LCD or LED computer screen mounted on the inside of the upper lid of the clamshell and an alphanumeric keyboard on the inside of the lower lid.
  • Digital Period

    Digital Period
    • Originally known as BackRub. The company is currently based out of Mountain View, California. Google is a search engine that started development in 1996 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page as a research project at Stanford University to find files on the Internet.
  • Digital Period

    Digital Period
    • Skype is software that enables the world's conversations. Millions of individuals use Skype to make free video and voice one-to-one and group calls, send instant messages and share files with other people on Skype.