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2500 BCE
Papyrus In Egypt
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(less breakable, and
not as heavy!). People made
papyrus in small sheets and
then glued the sheets
together to make big. -
1700 BCE
Pre-Industrial Age
people had discovered the
following developments:
❑creating fire
❑making paper out of plants
❑forging weapons and tools
with stone, bronze, copper and Iron -
Industrial Age
people discovered the
following:
❑ using power steam,
❑ developing machine tools,
❑ establishing iron production,
❑ manufacturing various
products, and
❑ publishing books through
printing press. -
Typewriter
Any of various machines for writing characters
similar to those made by printers’ types,
especially a machine in which the characters are
produced by steel types striking the paper
through an inked ribbon with the types being
actuated by corresponding keys on a keyboard
and the paper being held by a platen that is
automatically moved along with a carriage when
a key is struck. -
Telephone
An instrument designed for the
simultaneous transmission and reception of
the human voice. The telephone is
inexpensive, is simple to operate, and offers
its users an immediate, personal type of
communication that cannot be obtained
through any other medium. As a result, it has
become the most widely used
telecommunications device in the world.
Billions of telephone sets are in use around
the world. -
Motion pictures
Also called film or movie, series of
still photographs on film, projected in
rapid succession onto a screen by
means of light. Because of the
optical phenomenon known as
persistence of vision, this gives the
illusion of actual, smooth, and
continuous movement.
The motion picture is a remarkably
effective medium in conveying
drama and especially in the
evocation of emotion. -
Information Age
The era where we now live in, the Information Age, is when the Internet
has opened more opportunities for faster, real-time communication,
including the advent of social network.
Technology users have enjoyed the benefits of microelectronics with
the invention of the following:
personal computers,
mobile devices, and
wearable technology.
Moreover, digitization of voice, images, sound and data is prevalent in
this age with the help of technology. -
Electronic Age
people
paved way for the following
developments:
❑ inventing the transistor
❑improvement of the efficiency
of the long distance
communication
❑ harnessing the power of
transistors that led to the
invention of:
❑ transistor radio
❑ electronic circuits
❑ early computers -
Television
TV is a telecommunication
medium used for transmitting
moving images in monochrome
(black-and-white), or in color, and in
two or three dimensions and
sound. The term can refer to a
television set, a television program
("TV show"), or the medium of
television transmission. Television
is a mass medium for
entertainment, education, news,
politics, gossip, and advertising -
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. -
EDSAC
Electronic Delay Storage Automatic
Calculator (EDSAC) was an early
British computer. The machine,
having been inspired by John von
Neumann's seminal First Draft of a
Report on the EDVAC, was
constructed by Maurice Wilkes and
his team at the University of
Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory
in England. -
OHP (PROJECTOR)
An overhead
projector (OHP)
is a variant of
slide projector
that is used to
display images
to an audience. -
Large Electronic Computers
UNIVAC 1is a line of
electronic digital
stored-program computers
starting with the products of
the Eckert–Mauchly
Computer Corporation. Later
the name was applied to a
division of the Remington
Rand company and
successor organizations. -
Mainframe computers - i.e. IBM 704
The IBM 704, introduced by IBM in 1954, is the first
mass-produced computer with floating-point arithmetic
hardware. The type 704 Electronic Data-Processing
Machine is a large-scale, high-speed electronic calculator
controlled by an internally stored program of the single
address type."the only computer that could handle
complex math." The 704 was a significant improvement
over the earlier IBM 701 in terms of architecture and
implementation. -
Personal Computers i.e. Hewlett Packard 9100A
The 9100A was the first technical
desktop computer introduced by
Hewlett Packard. The 9100 could
also be considered a calculator. It
did not have an alphanumeric
keyboard, and most functions
were effectively "programmed
under" individual keys on the
keyboard, similar to a modern-day
non-programmable trigonometric
calculator. -
Floppy Disk
Floppy disk is a removable magnetic storage medium.
This is used for moving information between
computers, laptops or other devices. Some early digital
cameras, electronic music instruments and older
computer game consoles use floppy disks.
The first 8-inch floppy disk had a storage capacity of
about 80 kilobytes. By 1986, IBM introduced the 3-1/2
inch floppy disk with 1.44 megabytes of storage space. -
Personal Computers Apple 1
Also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1,
is a desktop computer released by the
Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.)
in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by
Steve Wozniak. Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs
had the idea of selling the computer. The
Apple I was Apple's first product, and to
finance its creation. -
WALKMAN
originally used
for portable
audio cassette
players. -
Web Browsers: Mosaic
NCSA Mosaic,or simply Mosaic, is a
discontinued early web browser. It has
been credited with popularizing the World
Wide Web. It was also a client for earlier
protocols such as File Transfer Protocol,
Network News Transfer Protocol,and
Gopher. Its intuitive interface, reliability,
Windows port and simple installation all
contributed to its popularity within the web,
as well as on Microsoft operating systems. -
Internet Explorer
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. -
Search Engine: Yahoo
Yahoo! is a web services provider, wholly
owned by Verizon Communications
through Oath Inc. and headquartered in
Sunnyvale, California. The original
Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry
Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and
was incorporated on March 2, 1995.
Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the
early Internet era in the 1990s Marissa
Mayer, a former Google executive,
served as CEO and President of Yahoo
until June 2017. -
Google
Google is an American
multinational technology
company that specializes in
Internet-related services and
products. These include online
advertising technologies, search,
cloud computing, software, and
hardware. Google was founded
in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey
Brin. -
Blogs: Blogspot
This search Engine is dedicated to all those who love
Blogspot blogs and want to search blogs on blogspot.
Search the world's best blogs on this blogspot blog search
engine that helps you exactly find blogger blogs that you
are looking for on blogpsot. This search engine only
focuses on the blogs that are made on blogspot and gives
you search results from all the blogger blogs that are
available online by searching the blogspot blogs. -
LiveJournal
LiveJournal is a Russian 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.In January 2005,
American blogging software
company Six Apart purchased
Danga Interactive, the company
that operated LiveJournal, from
Fitzpatrick. -
Social networks: Friendster
Friendster was a social gaming site based in
Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was originally a
social networking service website. Before
Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed
users to contact other members, maintain
those contacts, and share online content and
media with those contacts. -
WordPress
WordPress (WordPress.org) is a
free and open-source content
management system (CMS). It is
most associated with blogging
but supports other types of web
content including more
traditional mailing lists and
forums, media galleries, and
online stores. WordPress was
released on May 27, 2003, by
its founders, Matt Mullenweg
and Mike Little . -
Multiply
Multiply (2003)was a social
networking service with an
emphasis on allowing users
to share media – such as
photos, videos and blog
entries – with their
"real-world" network. -
Video chat: Skype
Skype is an instant messaging
app that provides online text
message and video chat
services. Users may transmit
both text and video messages
and may exchange digital
documents such as images, text,
and video. Skype allows video
conference calls. -
Facebook
Facebook is an American for-profit
corporation and an online social
media and social networking
service based in Menlo Park,
California. The Facebook website
was launched on February 4, 2004,
by Mark Zuckerberg, along with
fellow Harvard College students
and roommates, Eduardo Saverin,
Andrew McCollum, Dustin
Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. -
Video: YouTube
YouTube is an American video-sharing
website headquartered in San Bruno,
California. The service was created by
three former PayPal employees – Chad
Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim – in
February 2005. Google bought the site in
November 2006 for US$1.65 billion;
YouTube now operates as one of
Google's subsidiaries.YouTube allows
users to upload, view, rate, share, add to
favorites, report, comment on videos, and
subscribe to other users. -
Microblogs: Twitter
Twitter is an American
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 to 280
for all languages except
Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean. -
Tumblr
Tumblr is a microblogging and social
networking website founded by David
Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc.
The service allows users to post
multimedia and other content to a
short-form blog. Users can follow other
users' blogs. Bloggers can also make
their blogs private. For bloggers, many
of the website's features are accessed
from a "dashboard" interface.As of June
1, 2017, Tumblr hosts over 349.3 million
blogs.