Media and Information Literacy Timeline

By Group 3
  • 1500 BCE

    Pre-historic Age

    Pre-historic Age
    Prehistory is the period of human activity between the use of the first stone tools ~3.3 million years ago and the invention of writing systems, the earliest of which appeared ~5300 years ago. About 2.5 million years before writing was developed, technology began with the earliest hominids who used stone tools, which they may have used to start fires, hunt, cut food, and bury their dead.
  • Industrial Age

    Industrial Age
    The Industrial Age is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments.
  • Electronic Age

    Electronic Age
    The Electronic age is the invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistor that led to the transistor communication became more efficient.
  • Digital Age

    Digital Age
    Digital Age or Informational Age is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information computerization.The internet paved the way advanced the used of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, devices wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sounds, and data are digitalized.