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35,000 BCE
Cave paintings
Cave art is generally considered to have a symbolic or religious function, sometimes both. The exact meanings of the images remain unknown, but some experts think they may have been created within the framework of shamanic beliefs and practices. -
Period: 35,000 BCE to
Pre-Industrial Age
Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700's)
In this age, People had learned or discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
Papyrus is first known to have been used in Egypt (at least as far back as the First Dynasty), as the papyrus plant was once abundant across the Nile Delta. ... Apart from writing material, ancient Egyptians employed papyrus in the construction of other artifacts, such as reed boats, mats, rope, sandals, and baskets. -
2400 BCE
Clay tablets in Mesopotamia
used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. -
240
Woodblock printing or block printing
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. -
Newspaper- The London Gazette
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record or Government gazettes of the Government of the United Kingdom, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. -
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Industrial Age
This is were people discovered the used of power steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press) -
Typewriter
a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters similar to those produced by a printer's movable type. -
Telegraph
An electrical telegraph is a point-to-point text messaging system, primarily used from the 1840s until the mid 20th century when it was slowly replaced by other telecommunication systems. It used coded pulses of electric current through dedicated wires to transmit information over long distances. -
Telephone
On March 7, 1876, 29-year-old Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his revolutionary new invention: the telephone. The Scottish-born Bell worked in London with his father, Melville Bell, who developed Visible Speech, a written system used to teach speaking to the deaf. -
Motion picture photography/projection
When the still pictures are projected progressively and rapidly onto a screen, the eye perceives motion, hence they become a motion picture. This is termed persistence of vision. -
Motion picture with sound
The idea of combining motion pictures and sound had been around since the invention of the cinema itself: Thomas Edison had commissioned the Kinetograph to provide visual images for his phonograph, and William Dickson had actually synchronized the two machines -
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Electronic Age
In this age, People invented the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and early computers. In this age, long-distance communication became more efficient. -
Television
sometimes shortened to tele or telly, is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television show, or the medium of television transmission. -
Large electronic computers
The result was ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator And Computer), built between 1943 and 1945—the first large-scale computer to run at electronic speed without being slowed by any mechanical parts. For a decade, until a 1955 lightning strike, ENIAC may have run more calculations than all mankind had done up to that point. -
Transistor Radio
A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry, which revolutionized the field of consumer electronics by introducing small but powerful, convenient hand-held devices. -
Mainframe computers
A mainframe computer informally called a mainframe or big iron is a computer used primarily by large organizations for critical applications, bulk data processing (such as the census and industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning, and large-scale transaction processing). -
Period: to
Information Age
This is where 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. -
Personal computers
A personal computer (PC) is a multi-purpose computer whose size, capabilities, and price make it feasible for individual use. Personal computers are intended to be operated directly by an end user, rather than by a computer expert or technician. -
Portable computers- laptops
A portable computer is a computer designed to be easily moved from one place to another and included a display and keyboard. The first commercially sold portable was the 50-pound IBM 5100, introduced in 1975. -
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Web browsers
Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer (1995) • Blogs: Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999), Wordpress (2003) • Social networks: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Facebook (2004) • Microblogs: Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007) • Video: YouTube (2005)• Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality• Video chat: Skype (2003), Google Hangouts (2013) • Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995) -
Wearable technology
Smart Watch, Bluetooth Earphones, and etc -
Smart Phones
A smartphone is a mobile device that combines cellular and mobile computing functions into one unit.