Evolution of Media

Cave Paintings

35,000 BCE

Are type of parietal art, found on the wall or ceilings of caves. The oldest known cave over 40,000 years old.

Newspapers

1640

Is a periodical publication containing written information about current events. Newspapers have traditionally been published in print before they were carved in metal or stone and posted in public places.

Typewritter

1800

Is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing.

Punch cards

1890

Also known as Hollerith cards are paper cards containing several punched or punched by the hand to present.

Commercial Motion Pictures

1913

nd film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. The first known public exhibition of projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900, but it would be decades before reliable synchronization was made commercially practical.

Television

1941

Sometimes shortened to tele or telly is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome or in colour.

Transistor radio

1947

Is a small portable radio that uses transistor based circuity . this became the most popular electronic communication device in history.

Large electronic Computers

1949

The first programmable general-purpose electronic digital computer build during world war II by united states.

Main Frame Computers

1960

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.

Smart phones

1990

Are a class of multipurpose mobile computing device.

Web browsers

1993

Is a software application for accessing information on the world wide web.

Portable Computer

1993

Was a computer designed to easily moved from one place to another included a display and keyboard.

Cloud big Data

1996

Is all about dealing with the massive scale of data whereas cloud computing is about infrastructure.

Google

1996

The Google company was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most widely used web-based search engine. Page and Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm – at first known as "BackRub" – in 1996.

Blogspot

1999

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.What is most interesting about this tidbit will be that I don’t mention it in the Podcast. It was brought to my attention after the weekend recordings were made. Nonetheless, it is what brought us to a Social Network world of today and needed to be talked about.

Social Networks

2002

Is a social structure made up for a set social actors, sets of dyadictics and other social interactions.

Videochats

2003

Video chat is an online face-to-face, visual communication performed with other Internet users by using a webcam and dedicated software.

Youtube

2005

YouTube is a video sharing service that allows users to watch videos posted by other users and upload videos of their own. The service was started as an independent website in 2005 and was acquired by Google in 2006. ... YouTube videos are posted by people from all over the world, from all types of backgrounds.

Microblogs

2006

Is an online broadcast medium that exist as a specific form of blogging.