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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
Cave painting is defined as prehistoric picture on the interior of a cave, often depicting animals. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus
Papyrus is a long-lasting, paper-like material made from reeds which was first used by Egyptians. Egyptians made papyrus by pressing layers of reeds together and pounding them into sheets. It could be rolled into scrolls, and Scribes would write on them using brushes and ink. Lotts, J. (2015). Chapter 4 Section 4 Egyptian Achievements?. Retrieved from http://slideplayer.com/slide/4149766/ -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets
Evidence of the first writing on clay tablets has been found in southern Mesopotamia. Clay tablets were used to account everything that took place in society such as agriculture, taxes, etc. The writings were first based on pictograms, and later on developed into cuneiform. pictograph - a pictorial symbol for a word or phrase
cuneiform - denoting or relating to the wedge-shaped characters The British Museum (n.d.). Writing. Retrieved from http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/home_set.html -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna
The first proto-newspaper appeared as early as 131 B.C. It was an ancient Roman daily gazette called Acta Diurna (Daily Acts sometimes translated as Daily Public Records). Acta Diurna informed citizens of political and social happenings in ancient Rome. MessageToEagle (2016). Writing. Retrieved from http://www.messagetoeagle.com/acta-diurna-worlds-first-newspaper-appeared-in-131-b-c/ -
200
Dibao 《邸报》
The Chinese “Dibao” is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world. The reports in the newspaper were written by officers are selected by the eparchial government. Myan (2010). Writing. Retrieved from http://chailibrary.com/dibao-chinese-first-newspapers/ -
220
Printing Press Using Wood Blocks
Johannes Gutenberg is usually cited as the inventor of the printing press. Indeed, the German goldsmith's 15th-century contribution to the technology was revolutionary — enabling the mass production of books and the rapid dissemination of knowledge throughout Europe. However, the history of printing begins long before Gutenberg's time. Palermo (2014). Who Invented the Printing Press?. Retrieved from https://www.livescience.com/43639-who-invented-the-printing-press.html -
500
Codex
Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, written in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican paper, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being the wild fig tree or Amate (Ficus Glabrata), this paper was named by the Mayas Huun, and contained many Glyph and paintings. They are the products of professional scribes working under the patronage of the Howler Monkey Gods. http://www.crystalinks.com/mayancodices.html -
Newspaper - The London Gazette
UK's oldest continuously published newspaper. First published in 1665 in the reign of Charles II when the Great Plague of London forced the King and his court to move to Oxford, from there the Gazette was published to issue official news of events in the kingdom. Then called the Oxford Gazette, it was changed to London Gazette when the King moved back to London. History House (n.d.). The London Gazette. Retrieved from http://www.historyhouse.co.uk/articles/london_gazette.html -
Typewriter
When it became technologically possible to turn the long-standing idea for a writing machine into a reality, prototypes were abundant. But it wasn’t until 1867 that Christopher Latham Sholes of Milwaukee invented the first typewriter, later sold and turned into the successful Remington typewriter. Dugan, B. (2013). A Brief History of the Typewriter. Retrieved from http://mentalfloss.com/article/48912/brief-history-typewriter -
Newspaper in Spanish Period
• Del Superior Govierno - first regularly issued publication; 1811
• First act of censorship
• Del Superior Govierno ceased publication- February 1812
• La Esperanza - first daily newspaper; 1846
• Diario de Manila - 1848
• El Comercio - newspaper with the biggest circulation & longest span during Spanish Regime - 56 yeras
• La Opinion - first opinion paper in the country; 1827 -
Magazines in Spanish Period
• Registro Mercantil de Manila (1824) - products and commerce
• La Illustracion Filipinas (1859) - one of the 1st illustrated journals w/c promoted culture
• El Trovador Filipino (1874) - 1st intellectual journal
• El Bello Sexo (1881) - 1st women's magazine
• Patnubay ng Katolika (1890) - 1st publication entirely in Tagalog
• La Semana Elegante (1884) - satire magazines w/c hit important people then through sarcasm in literary pieces -
Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse. Samuel Morse developed a code (bearing his name) that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. In 1844, he sent the first telegraphic message. History (2009). Morse Code & the Telegraph. Retrieved from http://www.history.com/topics/inventions/telegraph -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the first practical telephone “Mr. Watson,” Alexander Graham Bell said into the mouthpiece, “come here — I want to see you.” Thomas Watson, Bell’s collaborator, heard the words in another room over the receiver. And the world’s first telephone call was complete. OUPBlog (n.d.). Alexander Graham Bell makes world’s first telephone call. Retrieved from https://blog.oup.com/2012/03/alexander-graham-bell-first-telephone-call/ -
Punch Card
Punched card tabulating equipment, invented and developed by Herman Hollerith to process data from the United States Census of 1890, was the first mechanized means for compiling and analyzing statistical information. Engineering and Technology History Wiki. (2015). Early Punched Card Equipment, 1880 - 1951. Retrieved from http://ethw.org/Early_Punched_Card_Equipment,_1880_-_1951 -
Motion Picture Photography/Projection
French brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière are often credited with inventing the first motion picture camera, although others had developed similar inventions at around the same time. What the Lumières invented was special, however. It combined a portable motion-picture camera, film processing unit, and a projector called the Cinematographe. Bellis, M. (2017). The History of Motion Pictures. Retrieved from https://www.thoughtco.com/history-of-motion-picture-4082865 -
Revolutionary Press
• Rose in the latter part of Spanish tule and early part of American occupation (approximately 1890 & 1905)
• La Solidaridad
• Kalayaan
• La Independencia
• El Renacimiento -
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The Era of Modern Media
Movies Period of the Silent Pictures -
Printing Press for Mass Production
[1800] Charles Stanhope - built the first printing press entirely out of iron
[1811] Friedrich Koenig - first to design a non-manpowered machine, using steam power
[1843] Richard M. Hoe - invented the rotary printing press News World Encyclopedia (2015). Printing press. Retrieved from http://www.newworldencyclopedia.org/entry/Printing_press -
Newspapers During American Occupation
Manila Bulletin - oldest existing newspaper -
Advertising
• 1st printed ads in newspapers ("anuncios")
• Manuel Beunaventura - first Filipino to handle advertising accounts
• Philippine Publicity Serbice, Inc. - 1st ad agency
• Philippine Promotions Bureau or Philprom (1945) - 1st all Filipino advertising agency organized after the war; became one of the top ad agencies in the country
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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. Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. We are now living in the information age. -
Commercial Motion Picture
Company displayed the first commercial motion picture machine, the kinetoscope, at the World's Columbian Exposition in 1893. An individual would look through a peephole in a cabinet and watch the film. Allen, W. (2015). History of Film Beginnings to 1941. Retrieved from http://slideplayer.com/slide/7733005/ -
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Rise of Feature Film
• Establishment of Filipino Film Companies
• Talking Pictures
• New Cinema -
Motion Picture With Sound
Eadweard Muybridge and Thomas Edison first experimented on sound cinema. -
Radio
In 1929, radio was introduced to the provinces in 1942 during Japanese Occupation, all radio stations were closed except for KZRH renamed PIAM used by Japanese Occupation. -
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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
Television was not invented by a single inventor, instead of many people working together and alone over the years, contributed to the evolution of television. 1900 - That is where Russian Constantin Perskyi made the first known use of the word "television." 1941- The FCC releases the NTSC standard for black and white TV. Bellis, M. (2017). Learn When the First TV Was Invented. Retrieved https://www.thoughtco.com/the-invention-of-television-1992531 -
Large Electronic Computers
The first general purpose programmable electronic computer was the Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer (ENIAC), built by J. Presper Eckert and John V. Mauchly at the University of Pennsylvania between 1943 and 1945. https://www.phy.ornl.gov/csep/ov/node10.html -
Mainframe computers
IBM developed its first mainframe computer, known as the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator (ASCC), in 1944. It solved addition and multiplication problems in less than six seconds. The ASCC was operated by a system of thousands of vacuum tubes. http://ocw.usu.edu/English/Technology_for_Professional_Writers/chapter3.pdf -
Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality
Virtual reality is considered to have begun in the 1950’s but early elements of it can be traced back to the 1860’s and long before the development of digital technology. https://www.vrs.org.uk/virtual-reality/beginning.html -
Transistor Radio
The first transistor radio hit the consumer market on October 18, 1954. The Regency TR-1 featured four germanium transistors operating on a 22.5-volt battery that provided over twenty hours of life. The unit weighed eleven ounces and cost $49.95. http://www.regencytr1.com/ -
Cloud and Big Data
The idea of an “intergalactic computer network” was introduced in the 1960s by JCR Licklider, who was responsible for enabling the development of the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network (ARPANET) in 1969. Mohamed, A. (2009). A history of cloud computing. Retrieved from http://www.computerweekly.com/feature/A-history-of-cloud-computing -
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Industrial Age
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Personal Computers
The first personal computers, introduced in 1975, came as kits: The MITS Altair 8800, followed by the IMSAI 8080, an Altair clone. Both used the Intel 8080 CPU. That was also the year Zilog created the Z-80 processor and MOS Technology produced the 6502. Bill Gates and Paul Allen wrote a BASIC compiler for the Altair and formed Micro-soft. Knight, D. (2014). Personal Computer History: The First 25 Years. Retrieved from http://lowendmac.com/2014/personal-computer-history-the-first-25-years/ -
Wearable Technology
As for smart watches, the technology isn’t exactly new, however, as it got its start back in the 1970s with the release of the first calculator watch. The calculator watch, first released in 1975 under the Pulsar brand, became a widely popular tool for science geeks and math nerds everywhere. http://www.redorbit.com/reference/the-history-of-wearable-technology/ -
Portable Computers
Thirty years ago, the Osborne 1 made its debut as the world's first portable PC, weighing nearly 24 pounds. Horn, L. (2011). First Portable Computer Debuted 30 Years Ago. Retrieved from https://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2383022,00.asp -
Phil. Mass Media before Martial Law
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Video Chat
In the 1990s something revolutionary was developed. IP based cam chat was developed and along with it more efficient video compression. This allowed video chat using you personal computer. Mag, A. (n.d.). How Video Chat Started. Retrieved from http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/125981/computers/how_video_chat_started.html -
Search Engines
The first search engine created was Archie, created in 1990 by Alan Emtage, a student at McGill University in Montreal. The original intent of the name was "archives," but it was shortened to Archie. ... Essentially Archie became a database of web filenames which it would match with the users queries. http://www.searchenginehistory.com/ -
Smart Phones
People didn't start using the term "smartphone" until 1995, but the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM more than 15 years before Apple released the iPhone. Tweedie, S. (2015). The world's first smartphone, Simon, was created 15 years before the iPhone. Retrieved from http://www.businessinsider.com/worlds-first-smartphone-simon-launched-before-iphone-2015-6 -
Web Browsers
The first widely used web browser was NCSA Mosaic. The Mosaic programming team then created the first commercial web browser called Netscape Navigator, later renamed Communicator, then renamed back to just Netscape. The Netscape browser led in user share until Microsoft Internet Explorer took the lead in 1999 due to its distribution advantage. https://www.livinginternet.com/w/wi_browse.htm -
Blogs
It’s generally recognized that the first blog was Links.net, created by Justin Hall, while he was a Swarthmore College student in 1994. Of course, at that time they weren’t called blogs, and he just referred to it as his personal homepage. WebdesignerDepot Staff. (2011). A Brief History of Bloggin. Retrieved from https://www.webdesignerdepot.com/2011/03/a-brief-history-of-blogging/ -
Social networks
The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users. In 1999, the first blogging sites became popular, creating a social media sensation that's still popular today. Hendricks, D. (2013). Complete History of Social Media: Then And Now. Retrieved from https://smallbiztrends.com/2013/05/the-complete-history-of-social-media-infographic.html -
Video
The first organized group of online video enthusisasts solified in New York City on 22th January 2005. Youtube was founded in February. The first video was puplished in April. Branckaute, F. (2010). History of Online Video. Retrieved from https://www.blogherald.com/2010/10/27/history-of-online-video/ -
Microblogs
Microblogging—the term given to short status messages reporting on the details of one’s life—arrived on the scene as a major communication channel in March 2007 when Twitter became the hit of the South by Southwest Conference in Austin, Texas. Makice, K. (2007). A brief history of microblogging. Retrieved from http://www.blogschmog.net/2007/11/17/a-brief-history-of-microblogging/ -
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Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)
People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron.
