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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
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. -
Period: 35,000 BCE to 220
Pre-Industrial Age
People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
The 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. -
2400 BCE
Clay tablets in Mesopotamia
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. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna
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. -
220
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. -
Newspaper - The London Gazette
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events and is often typed in black ink with a white and gray background. -
Period: to
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). -
Punch Cards
A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data. -
Motion Picture, Photography/Projection
Motion picture, also called film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. -
Commercial Motion Pictures
Commercial motion-picture animation slumped in the 1960s as cartoons for children migrated to television, Hollywood studios cut back, and theatres. -
Motion Picture with Sound
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. -
Period: to
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
A system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education. -
EDSAC
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator is an early British Computer considered to be stored program electronic computer. -
UNIVAC
The Universal Automatic Computer (UNIVAC) is a set of computers made by the Eckert-Mauchly Computer Company, and later, by Sperry/Rand, in the 1950s. -
Hewlett-Packard 9100A
The Hewlett-Packard 9100A (hp 9100A) is an early programmable calculator first appearing in 1968. -
Apple 1
Apple 1 is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. -
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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. -
Web Browsers
Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. -
Search Engines
Google was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most used web-based search engine. -
Blogs
Blogspot is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries (posts). -
Social Networks
Facebook is an American online social media and social
networking service company based in California. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg. -
Microblogs
Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".
