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100
First known media
39985 BCE - First currently known cave paintings -
100
Stone Carvings
20000 BCE - First stone carving currently known. Stone carvings were originally just 2D, but evolved into statues. -
100
Language/Oration
Between 10000 - 30000 BCE - First oral languages emerge. -
100
Song/Music/Dance
Between 10000 - 30000 BCE - Song and dance used to communicate feelings/ info. -
100
Body Art
Between 10000 - 30000 BCE - The first early forms of tattoos and piercings emerge. -
100
Jewellery
Between 10000 - 30000 BCE - First typical "jewellery" created. -
100
Mythology
Between 10000 - 30000 BCE - First religious mythology created. Originally, it was passed on by word of mouth, but most myths were originally written down. -
100
Cave Painting
Between 10000 - 30000 BCE - Cave paintings date back all the way to before the common era, first date not known. -
100
Pottery
140000 BCE - Pottery and making useful trinkets out of wet clay begins at this time. -
100
Sculpture
Between 10000 - 30000 BCE - Sculpting of rock evolves out of 2D stone carving. -
100
Megalithic Arcitecture
4000 BCE - Arcitecture in an old Nordic style of building with giant stone slabs to build large buildings. -
100
Writing
3000 BCE - First writing emerges around 5000 years ago -
100
Metallugy
3000 BCE - Metallurgical bronze sculpture makes longer lasting art than rock carving. -
100
Alphabets
2000 BCE - First alphabets created. Communications can last more accurately than by word of mouth -
100
Dramas
500 BCE - Cramatical re-enactments are first percormed 500 years before the birth of christ -
100
Paper
100 AD - Paper was invented and greatly inhcreased the speed at which documents could be written -
Period: 100 to
Media History
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Jun 1, 1450
Printing Press
1450 AD - Gutenberg printing press was invented - "Around 1450 Johannes Gutenberg made a mechanical metal movable-type printing press in Europe, along with innovations in casting the type based on a matrix and hand mould. The more limited number of characters needed for European languages was an important factor.[3] Gutenberg was the first to create his type pieces from an alloy of lead, tin, and antimony—and these materials remained standard for 550 years..[4]" - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M -
Jun 1, 1500
Printed books
As the common man learns to read, printed books become more popular. -
Newspapers and Magazines
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One use Photographs
The first photograph was 10 years ago at this point, but in 1837, Louis Daguerre created sharp photographs that developed in minutes. -
Telegraph
First electronically transmitted telegram on the electric telegraph -
Telephone
Invented by Alexander Graham Bell, converts metal vibration to elecrtonic impulses and back. -
Phonograph
Edison invented th phonograph in 1877 -
Back to the Future day
Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled to today, marking this as the day where Baqck to the Future is entirely in the past.