Evolution of Media

  • 35,001 BCE

    Pre - Industrial Age (Before 1700s)

    People use the power of fire, stones, woods and even mud to create Clay Tablets, Cave paintings and other communication tool in this age.
  • 35,000 BCE

    cave paintings

    cave paintings
    Humans had not learned to write during the prehistoric time period. There are three theories that the prehistoric man might have painted animals on the walls of the caves. Perhaps the cave man wanted to decorate the cave and chose animals because they were important to their existence.
  • 2500 BCE

    Papyus

    Papyus
    It was also used throughout the Mediterranean region and in the Kingdom of Kush. Apart from a writing material, ancient Egyptians employed papyrus in the construction of other artifacts, such as reed boats, mats, rope, sandals, and baskets.
  • 2400 BCE

    Clay-tablet

    Clay-tablet
    Clay tablets were a medium used for writing. They were common in the Fertile Crescent, from about the 5th millennium BC. A clay tablet is a more or less flat surface made of clay. Using a stylus, symbols were pressed into the soft clay. It is possible to correct errors on the tablet. The tablet was then baked or left in the sun until dry and hard.
  • 220 BCE

    Printing press using wood blocks

    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.
  • 206 BCE

    Dibao discovered in China

    Dibao discovered in China
    They contained official announcements and news, and were intended to be seen only by bureaucrats (and a given Dibao might only be intended for a certain subset of bureaucrats). Selected items from a gazette might then be conveyed to local citizenry by word of mouth and/or posted announcements. Frequency of publication varied widely over time and place.
  • 130 BCE

    Acta Diurna

    Acta Diurna
    Acta Diurna informed citizens of political and social happenings in ancient Rome.
    News of events such as military victories, gladiatorial bouts and other games, births and deaths and even human-interest stories were inscribed on metal or stone and posted in areas with heavy foot traffic, such as the Roman Forum where free citizens met to discuss ideas, philosophy and politics.
  • Industrial Age (1700s -1930s)

    To be able to communicate or to spread such news, people in Industrial age developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products including books through the printing press
  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type.
  • Motion picture (photography/projection)

    Motion picture (photography/projection)
    Cinematography, the art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves such techniques as the general composition of a scene; the lighting of the set or location; the choice of cameras, lenses, filters, and film stock; the camera angle and movements; and the integration of any special effects.
  • commercial motion picture

    commercial motion picture
    Most connoisseurs of the art of motion pictures feel that the greatest films are the artistic and personal expression of strong directors. The cinema exists, however, for many social functions, and its “art” has served many types of film that do not set out to be artistic. In practical terms these functions divide films into what are usually termed “modes,” including the documentary, the experimental, and the fictional.
  • Motion picture with sounds

    Motion picture with sounds
    A sound 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 decades passed before sound motion pictures were made commercially practical.
  • newspaper

    newspaper
    Newspapers can cover a wide variety of fields such as politics, business, sports and art, and often include materials such as opinion columns, weather forecasts, reviews of local services, obituaries, birth notices, crosswords, editorial cartoons, comic strips, and advice columns.
  • Television

    Television
    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, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment and news.
  • Information Age (1900-2000)

    information age is where all the technology are fully develop. where it really makes everyone easy in their daily life in getting such information.
  • Large electronic Computers EDSAC

    Large electronic Computers EDSAC
    is an early British computer considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. It was created at the University of Cambridge in England, performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949, and was the computer that ran the first graphical computer game, nicknamed "Baby." In the picture to the right, is an example of the EDSAC computer.
  • Large electronic Computers UNIVAC 1

    Large electronic Computers UNIVAC 1
    The UNIVAC I (UNIVersal Automatic Computer I) was the first commercial computer produced ... With a sample of just 1% of the voting population it famously predicted an ... the high cost of manually converting large quantities of existing data stored on cards.
  • IBM 704 - manufacturers of computers

    IBM 704 - manufacturers of computers
    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.
  • Hewlett Packard

    Hewlett Packard
    The Hewlett-Packard 9100A is an early computer first appearing in 1968. HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. We therefore decided to call it a calculator, and all such nonsense disappeared.
  • Electronic Age (1930-1980)

    Electronic age where the electronic starts to invade people. by helping them not to struggle in life by getting information
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly.
  • Apple

    Apple
    Apple was founded by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne in April 1976 to develop and sell Wozniak's Apple I personal computer. It was incorporated as Apple Computer, Inc. in January 1977, and sales of its computers, including the Apple II, saw significant momentum and revenue growth for the company.
  • laptop (portable Computer)

    laptop (portable Computer)
    Laptops are computers that you can take everywhere with you without hassle. They can take up very little space and be used for hours without access to power.
  • Tablet

    Tablet
    A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and LCD touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single thin, flat package. Tablets, being computers, do what other personal computers do, but lack some I/O capabilities that others have. Modern tablets largely resemble modern smartphones,
  • internet explorer (web browser)

    internet explorer (web browser)
    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
  • Yahoo (search engine)

    Yahoo (search engine)
    It was globally known for its Web portal, search engine Yahoo! Search, and related services, including Yahoo! Directory, Yahoo! Mail, Yahoo! News, Yahoo! Finance, Yahoo! Groups, Yahoo! Answers, advertising, online mapping, video sharing, fantasy sports, and its social media website.
  • Google (search engine)

    Google (search engine)
    Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware
  • blogspot (web browser)

    blogspot (web browser)
    Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. The blogs are hosted by Google and generally accessed from a subdomain of blogspot.com.
  • Friendster (social networks)

    Friendster (social networks)
    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
  • Multiple (social networks)

    Multimedia is content that uses a combination of different content forms such as text, audio, images, animations, video and interactive content. Multimedia contrasts with media that use only rudimentary computer displays such as text-only or traditional forms of printed or hand-produced material.
  • Skype (video chat)

    Skype (video chat)
    Skype allows these registered users to communicate through both instant messaging and voice chat. Voice chat allows telephone calls between pairs of users and conference calling and uses a proprietary audio codec.
  • Facebook (social networks)

    Facebook (social networks)
    Facebook is a popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues.
  • youtube (social networks)

    youtube (social networks)
    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.
  • micro blogs (twitter)

    micro blogs (twitter)
    is an 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 for all languages except Japanese, Korean, and Chinese.
  • micro blogs (tumblr)

    micro blogs (tumblr)
    The description box in your Tumblr blog's sidebar allows you to display a static summary about yourself and your blog to your visitors. All Tumblr themes include Tumblr's proprietary markup code that enables you to quickly change the text in your sidebar's description without needing any coding experience.
  • Netbooks (portable computer)

    Netbooks (portable computer)
    a netbook is a small, light, low-power notebook computer that has less processing power than a full-sized laptop but is still suitable for word processing, running a Web browser and connecting wirelessly to the Internet. Netbooks fall into a category of what vendors refer to as “small form” computers.
  • google hangouts (video chat)

    google hangouts (video chat)
    Google Hangouts is a communication platform developed by Google which includes messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP features