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38,000 BCE
Drawings in Caves
Communication began as drawing.
It is a painted drawings on walls or ceilings mainly of prehistoric origin.
The paintings are remarkably similar around the world, with animals being common subjects that give the most impressive images. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age.
Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). -
2000 BCE
Punch Cards
A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. The information might be data for data processing applications or, in earlier examples, used to directly control automated machinery. -
1440 BCE
Johannes Gutenberg, Printing Press
The first printing press that changed the world of printing was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg, based on existing screw presses.
But have been established in 242 cities in various countries mostly in Western Europe around 1500 according to the scholars and considered as the first medium for the masses.
It altered the church, science, arts, and politics, accelerating developments that would see its pinnacle in Industrial Revolution of 17th century. -
500 BCE
Codex
A book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials, with hand-written contents invented by the Christians.
A document which can be rightfully referred as the prototype of book. It this time, it was already bound together for easy reading and flipping the pages. -
300 BCE
Papyrus
Papyrus was produced in Egypt, and in ancient Greece and Rome. which was woven from papyrus plants.
It transmit ideas, messages and scriptures like for churches activities. -
220 BCE
Printing Press 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. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 AD, and woodblock printing remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna
A daily papyrus newspaper, the Acta Diurna (Daily Events), was distributed in locations in Rome and around the Baths. Its motto was “Publicize And Propagate.” Probably the low-grade saitic or taenotic papyrus was used for daily publishing, no doubt one of the reasons that no scraps of the Acta Diurna have ever been found. -
1455
First Printed Bible
Johann Gutenberg holds the distinction of being the inventor of the movable-type printing press. Gutenberg produced what is considered to be the first book ever printed: a Latin language Bible, printed in Mainz, Germany. -
1500
Movable Type Machine
The revolution of printing took place and invented the printing technology. Johann Gutenberg is acknowledged as the first to invent a system and technology of printing and typography that uses movable components to reproduce the elements of a document usually on the medium of paper. -
Doctrina Cristiana
The Doctrina Christiana was an early book on the Roman Catholic Catechism, written by Fray Juan de Plasencia, and is believed to be one of the earliest printed books in the Philippines.
He derived its name from the Latin term Doctrina Christiana meaning the “teachings of the church” . -
Telegraph
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic (as opposed to verbal or audio) messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message. Thus semaphore is a method of telegraphy, whereas pigeon post is not.
Telegraphy requires that the method used for encoding the message be known to both sender and receiver. -
Adversarial Press
A press that had the ability to conduct dialogue and even argue with the government..
It was triggered by the imposition of taxes on a paper by the British empire, so it could generate the much- needed revenues to finance its wars.
The income of the printers were severely affected by this development, so they openly denounce this colonial policy of taxation. -
Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type. A typewriter operates by means of keys that strike a ribbon to transmit ink or carbon impressions onto paper. Typically, a single character is printed on each key press. The machine prints characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing. -
La Esperanza
La Esperanza was the first daily newspaper edited by Felipe Lacorte and Evaristo Calderon and was published in the country. -
La Solidaridad
One of the famous newspaper in the history and was published in Spain. The aims of the newspaper expanded and drew the attention on politicians and even Spanish ministers.
It consist not only articles and essays about the economic, cultural, political, and social conditions of the country, but also current news, both local and foreign, and speeches of prominent Spanish leaders about the Philippines. -
Ang Kalayaan
Pulished as the official newspaper and medium of the Kataastaasang Kagalang galangang Katipunan ng mga Anak ng Bayan (KKK). -
Vitascope
Edison Vitascope was on public debut in New York, where it showed a film " Rough Sea at Dover" by Robert Paul.
It was such a novelty and large screen projection enabled massive audiences to watch and at the same time starkly different practice from the newspaper that was helsdby a single reader, and perhaps, passed on to the next individual who expressed interest to read the current news. -
Steam- powered Cylinder Press
The development of the steam engine which dramatically lowered the cost and demand of newspaper.
Such advance in the technologies of scale and the rise of the working class transformed the newspaper into a truly mass medium. -
Television
Television was already used in magazine called the " Scientific American ".
The first telecast of a television program took place transmitting from the experimental studio of General Electric in New York. -
Electronic Scanning
A much improved technology from the mechanical scanning introduced earlier.
A type of phased array antenna, that is a computer-controlled array antenna in which the beam of radio waves can be electronically steered to point in different directions without moving the antenna.
By the 1939, President Franklin Roosevelt became the first president to appear on the tube. -
Alto Broadcasting System
When James Linderberg able to team up with Antonio Quirino, they would establish the Alto Broadcasting System where he would serve as the general manage.
The group owns and operates the ABS-CBN and ABS-CBN Sports+Action national television networks as well as the Radyo Patrol and My Only Radio regional radio networks. -
Transmitter
James Lindenberg, an American engineer began assembling transmitters in Bolinao, Pangasinan but he failed at not fully successful to attempt to establish a television station. -
Transistor Radio
The invention of the transistor radio signaled the development of semi- conductor devices, considered the foundation of modern electronics, as it led to the invention of integrated circuits, a technology that will be critical in the development of the computer. -
EDSAC
The electronic delay storage automatic calculator (EDSAC) was an early British computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the machine was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England. -
UNIVAC
UNIVAC is the name of 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. UNIVAC is an acronym for Universal Automatic Computer. -
IBM 701
IBM has already shipped its first electronic computers called 701 in the industry. The IBM 701, known as the Defense Calculator while in development, was announced to the public and was IBM’s first commercial scientific computer. -
Mainframe Computer
Mainframe computers (colloquially referred to as "big iron") are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing. -
Packard
Packard Bell is a Dutch-based computer manufacturing subsidiary of Acer. The brand name originally belonged to an American radio manufacturer, Packard Bell, founded by Herbert "Herb" A. Bell and Leon S. Packard in 1933. Some websites use 1926 as the founding date when Herbert Bell was an executive with Jackson Bell Company, Los Angeles, California. -
ARPANET
The ARPANET was created and considered as the predecessor of the internet. It was a large area- wide network created by the US military, specially the US Defense Advanced Research Agency (ARPA) to serve a ground for networking technologies that will link the military to various federal agencies.
It enables the development and unabated the growth of the new media because it democratized the platform for creating, producing, and disseminating information. -
Apple 1
Apple Computer 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. -
Laptop
A laptop, often called a notebook or "notebook computer", is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor, an alphanumeric keyboard on the lower part of the "clamshell" and a thin LCD or LED computer screen on the upper portion, which is opened up to use the computer. Laptops are folded shut for transportation, and thus are suitable for mobile use. -
Bulletin Board System
A computer running software that allows uses to connect and exhange messages and information using a terminal program.
It was started to operate this time using software that ran on an IBM XT Clone PC, with a modem that ran on 1200 bpm. -
Mosaic Browser
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. The browser was named for its support of multiple internet protocols. Its intuitive interface, reliability, Windows port and simple installation all contributed to its popularity within the web, as well as on Microsoft operating systems. -
World Wide Web
Sir Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web and finally launched in the Philippines.
It is information system on the Internet that allows documents to be connected to other documents by hypertext links, enabling the user to search for information by moving from one document to another. -
Philippines, Internet
The Philippines was formally connected to the internet using the PLDT network center in Makati City. -
First Smartphone
A refined version was marketed to consumers in 1994 by BellSouth under the name Simon Personal Communicator. The Simon was the first commercially available device that could be properly referred to as a "smartphone", although it was not called that in 1994. -
Livejournal, Blogs
It is a Russian (originally American) social networking service where users can keep a blog, journal or diary. A wide variety of political pundits also use the service for political commentary.
As with many other social networks, a wide variety of public figures use the network.
LiveJournal was started on April 15, 1999 by American programmer Brad Fitzpatrick as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities. -
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. -
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. -
Twitter
Twitter is an online news and social networking service where users post and interact with messages, "tweets", restricted to 140 characters. Registered users can post tweets, but those who are unregistered can only read them. -
Netbook
Netbook is a generic name given to a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive laptop computers that were introduced in 2007. Netbooks compete in the same market segment as tablet computers and Chromebooks (a variation on the portable network computer). -
Google
Google is an American multinational technology company specializing in Internet-related services and products. These include online advertising technologies, search, cloud computing, software, and hardware.
