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200,000 BCE
Pre-Historic Age
Anything prior to the first written accounts of history is prehistoric, including earlier technologies. About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, and bury their dead. Examples of Pre-Historic media would include:
Writing Materials
Carving Materials
Traditional Paper -
Industrial Age
The Industrial Age 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 Examples of Industrial Age media would include:
Books,
Typewriter,
Printingpress -
Electronic Age
Electronic media are media that use electronics or electromechanical audience to access the content. This is in contrast to static media (mainly print media), which today are most often created electronically, but do not require electronics to be accessed by the end user in the printed form. Examples of Electronic Age media would include:
Telegraph
Telephone
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Digital Age
The digital age, also called the information age, is defined as the time period starting in the 1970s with the introduction of the personal computer with subsequent technology introduced providing the ability to transfer information freely and quickly. Examples of Digital Age media would include:
Personal Computers
Smartphones
Wearable Technology
Digital Books
Television
