Evolution of Media

Cave Painting

35,000 BCE

also known as parietal art, are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, beginning roughly 40,000 years ago (around 38,000 BCE) in Eurasia.

Papyrus

2500 BCE

is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface.

Clay Tablets

2400 BCE

were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age.

Acta Diurna

130 BCE

were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places like the Roman Forum beginning about 130 BCE.

Newspaper

1640

is a periodical publication containing written information about current events.

Pre-industrial Age

1700

refers to social attributes and forms of political and cultural organization that were prevalent before the advent of the Industrial Revolution, which occurred from 1750 to 1850. Pre-industrial is a time before there were machines and tools to help perform tasks en masse.

Industrial Age

Period: 1700 to 1930

is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.

Typewriter

1800

is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type.

Telephone

1876

is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.

Motion Picture

1890

also called film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light.

Electronic Age

Period: 1930 to 1980

the electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use.

Television

1941

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

Large Electronic Computers - EDSAC

1949

was the first practical general purpose stored program electronic computer.

Apple

1976

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.

Information Age

Period: 1980 to 2000

is a historic period in the 21st century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology.

Portable Computers - Tablets

1993

is a portable personal computer, typically with a mobile operating system and LCD touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single thin, flat package.

Web Browsers - Internet Explorer

1995

is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995.

Video Chat - Skype

2003

is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones.

Social Networks - Facebook

2004

is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California.

Micro blogs - Youtube

2005

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.