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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
Cave or rock paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times. It is widely believed that the paintings are the work of respected elders or shamans.The most common themes in cave paintings are large wild animals, such as bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of human hands as well as abstract patterns, called Macaroni by Breuil. Drawings of humans are rare and are usually schematic rather than the more naturalistic animal subjects. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
Papyrus is a known as plant and most closely associated with writing - in fact, the English word 'paper' comes from the word 'papyrus' - but the Egyptians found many uses for the plant other than a writing surface for documents and texts.As a writing material, papyrus was used for hymns, religious texts, spiritual admonitions, letters, official documents, proclamations, love poems, medical texts, scientific or technical manuals, record-keeping, magical treatises, and literature. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets of Mesopotamia
People living in Mesopotamia developed a form of writing to record and communicate different types of information.The earliest writing was based on pictographs. Pictographs were used to communicate basic information about crops and taxes.Over time, the need for writing changed and the signs developed into a script we call cuneiform. Over thousands of years, Mesopotamian scribes recorded daily events, trade, astronomy, and literature on clay tablets -
220 BCE
Printing Press using wood blocks .
Wood blocks are used 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. And woodblock printing remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images. Ukiyo-e is the best known type of Japanese woodblock art print. The art of carving the woodcut is technically known as xylography, though the term is rarely used in English -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome
Copies of Acta Diurna ("Daily Events", or the "Daily Public Record"), were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places.These are thought to be the first daily gazettes. Their original content included results of legal proceedings and outcomes of trials. Later the content was expanded to public notices and announcements and other noteworthy information such as prominent births, marriages and deaths. -
105 BCE
Paper
Paper is a "wood" like material primarily used for writing, first invented in ancient China. The first papermaking process was documented in China during the Eastern Han period traditionally attributed to the court official Cai Lun. -
100
Codex
A document which can be rightfully referred to as the prototype of a book. It is a book constructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar materials, with hand-written contents. Papyrus pages facing on another were bound together instead of rolled up for easy reading. -
1440
Printing Machine
Johann Gutenberg invented the printing technology that would eventually be called the movable type machine. It is a frame that could hold the type covered in ink on one place.Afterwards, a piece of paper would be place on top, secured through a corkscrew device. The process made it possible to produce multiple copies of pages at a time. The Gutenberg printing process launched what could be considered the first medium truly designed for the masses. -
Newspaper
It was in England that first newspapers to be produced. The London Gazette was first printed in Oxford, England,.The first newspapers were patronized by merchants. As perennial travelers, they were very interested on what was going on in various parts of the world, both economically and politically. -
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. -
Steam powered Cylinder press
An invention was created that would soon change the way documents would be printed forever. Fredrich Koenig, a German investor, and Andreas Fredrich Bauer, a German watchmaker, together built the first steam powered printing press. The Steam powered Cylinder press caused newspapers to lower it cost. -
Electric Telegraph
Any device or system that allows the transmission of information by coded signal over distance. Electrical telegraph was independently developed and patented in the United States in 1837 by Samuel Morse. His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the Morse code signaling alphabet with Morse. America's first telegram was sent by Morse on January 6, 1838, across 2 miles (3 km) of wiring. -
Telephone
Is a telecommunications device converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals suitable for transmission via cables or other transmission media over long distances. Scottish emigrant Alexander Graham Bell was the first to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice. -
Film
George Eastman invented the film and built a company that would be known as Kodak.Eastman hired chemist Henry Reichenbach to develop a type of flexible film that could be more easily inserted into cameras. Thomas Edison adapted the film for use in the motion-picture camera he was developing, further propelling the success of Eastman's company. -
Mobile Phones
A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area. A handheld mobile radio telephone service was envisioned in the early stages of radio engineering. In 1917, Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt filed a patent for a "pocket-size folding telephone with a very thin carbon microphone". -
Television
American Charles Jenkins and John Baird from Scotland, each demonstrate the mechanical transmissions of images over wire circuits called television.And by 1928 the first telecast of a television program took place. Through the television we have been exposed us to different shows such as educational shows, reality shows and comedy shows. Television provides awareness in our society and in our community. Television helped us to gain proper knowledge and information about something. -
Computer
A computer is a device that can be instructed to carry out an arbitrary set of arithmetic or logical operations automatically. Charles Babbage considered the "father of the computer",he conceptualized and invented the first mechanical computer in the early 19th century.
Computer exposed us from different computer applications and how to use them. And literally, computer exposed us from radiation which affects our eyesight. -
Transistor Radio
A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their They became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1997. -
Photocopier Machine
A photocopier is a machine that makes paper copies of documents and other visual images quickly and cheaply. Heat, pressure or a combination of both is then used to fuse the toner onto the paper. -
Communication Satellite
A communications satellite is an artificial satellite that relays and amplifies radio telecommunications signals via a transponder; it creates a communication channel between a source transmitter and a receiver at different locations on Earth. Communications satellites are used for television, telephone, radio, internet, and military applications. There are over 2,000 communications satellites in Earth’s orbit, used by both private and government organizations. -
ARPANET
It is considered as the predecessor of the internet. It was a large area-wide network created by the US military, specifically the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to serve as a ground for networking technologies that will link the military to various federal agencies, even the universities. -
Internet
The first innovation was TCP/IP architecture as proposed by Stanford University It is considered as the standard protocol by which networks communicate.And in 1983, it was universally adopted. Commands for electronic mails were standardized, thereby making it a lot easier for layman to navigate the incresingly complex world of the Internet. The Internet enabled the development and the unabated growth of the new media. -
Laptop
A laptop, often called 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. The IBM 5100, the first commercially available portable computer, appeared. Laptops are very useful for us 21st century learners. These helps us to do our school requirements and it is more comfortable to bring. -
Apple Computer
Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak build the first apple computer.a subsequent version, the apple it is an immediate success. -
World Wide Web
Is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet. English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. -
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (IE) is a World Wide Web browser that comes bundled with the Microsoft Windows operating system (OS). The browser was deprecated in Windows 10 in favor of Microsoft's new Edge Browser. It remains a part of the operating system even though it is no longer the default browser. -
Yahoo
Yahoo! is a web services provider, wholly owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc. and headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995.Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s.Marissa Mayer, a former Google executive, served as CEO and President of Yahoo until June 2017. -
Smart Phones
A smartphone is a mobile personal computer with a mobile operating system which are typically pocket-sized, have the ability to place and receive voice/video calls and create and receive text messages,digital camera and digital video camera. Smartphones can access the Internet through cellular frequencies or Wi-Fi.
And honestly smartphones are devices which exposed us from different SNS. It is used for picture taking especially selfies. It used for texting and accessing the internet. -
Friendster
Friendster was a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was originally a social networking service website.The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies. Users could share videos, photos, messages and comments with other members via profiles and networks.It is considered one of the original and even the "grandfather" of social networks. -
Skype
Skype is an instant messaging appthat provides online text message and video chatservices. Users may transmit bot textandvideo messagesand may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video. Skype allowsvideo conference calls. -
Facebook
Facebook is an American for-profit corporation and an online social media and social networking service launched by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates. And As ABM students Facebook is great for marketing, it help us to promote certain products specially clothes. Facebook provides information about things and to our loved ones. And facebook us to now what is the current trends in today's society -
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 – in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.
As learners, you tube helped us to gain knowledge about something through video tutorials. It help us to to enhance our undestanding skils.
