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1500 BCE
Pre-colonial Traces
The discovery of Alibata or Baybayin,whose form was similar to image-based types of characters of our Asian neighbors. Closest to having a broadcast system of information dissemination in ancient time was traced to the "Umalohokan" or the town criers. -
The Broadcast Industry
Telegraph and Telephone system in the Philippines was introduced -
The Print and Filipino Freedom
Books, Magazines, and Newspaper were bought to the Philippines by the Ancient Colonizer, and mostly printed in language that not everybody in the archipelago could speak -
The Print Industry and Filipino Freedom
Del Superior Govierno, was the very first newspaper that was established, and was intended for the Spaniards only. -
The Print Industry and Filipino Freedom
La Solidaridad, the most nationalistic newspaper was established. -
The Broadcast Industry
The First telephone sysytem of the country began its operation -
The Broadcast Industry
Radio broadcast Experiments began -
The European Film Import
Filipino Film was able to rise, and so called "Golden Age of Philippine Cinema -
The Broadcasting Industry
Quirino in establishing DZAQ-TV Channel 3, which aired the very first television broadcast in the Philippines -
The Print Industry and Filipino Freedom
Declaration of Martial Law. Then Ferdinand Marcos first move were to suppress press freedom -
The Print Industry and Filipino Freedom
Philippine Constitutions declared that media should also be protected and should remain free -
Local Online Media
On the early 1990s, email communications was also introduced in several sectors, primarily within multinational companies operating in the country like IBM, Motorola, and Texas Instruments -
Local Online Media
The local online forum called the Bulletin Board System or BBS was established -
Local Online Media
The first commercial Internet service provider was launched by Mosaic Communications or MosCom, making it possible for Filipinos to go online. -
Local Online Media
The Philippines was named as the "social media capital of the world" in 2011 as 93.9% of the population area are heavy Facebook users. The Philippines is also in the top 10 countries that use Twitter the most.
