Media Manipulation

By Adje
  • 3100 BCE

    First Recorded Written Language

    Sumerian Language is the earliest recorded language from Ancient Mesopotamia
  • 3000 BCE

    Earliest Form of Pen and Paper

    Ancient Egyptians used reed brushes to produce hieratic and hieroglyphic scripts on papyrus scrolls.
  • 800

    Earliest Form of the Print Press

    The Chinese created early printing techniques involving chiseling an entire page of text into a wood block backwards, applying ink, and printing pages by pressing them against the block.
  • 1400

    Key innovation of the Print Press

    Johannes Gutenberg is famous for having designed and built the first printing press to incorporate movable type and mechanised inking and for using his invention to produce the Gutenberg Bible.

  • Invention of Newspaper

    Johann Carolus published the first newspaper called 'Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien'.

  • Key Reform of Mail and Postal Service

    Rowlad Hill brought the postal service to the mass population by changing the old system, making it much more efficient. He made it so that there is a uniform rate of postage regardless of distance. He also changed to prepayment through the use of adhesive stamps.

  • Invention of the Typewriter

    Christopher Latham Sholes took inspiration for his invention from other attempts that were much slower and the size of a piano.

  • Invention of the Telephone

    The first telephone was created by Alexander Graham Bell.

  • First Motion Picture

    Eadweard Muybridge created the first motion picture, of Leland Stanford riding on a horse.

  • Invention of Radio

    Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi created the first form of radio or wireless telegraph.

  • Invention of Electric Television

    Philo Farnsworth, an American inventor created the first all electric television.

  • Invention of Electronic Computer

    John Vincent Atanasoff, created the first special-purpose electronic computer.

  • Invention of the Internet

    Vinton Cerf and Bob Kahn created the Internet communication protocols.

  • The First Smartphone

    The Simon Personal Communicator was created by IBM

  • First Social Media Platform

    Six Degrees is widely considered to be the very first social networking site

  • Release of Facebook

    Mark Zuckerberg launches the website.

  • Release of Youtube

    Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim created youtube.

  • Release of Instagram

    Initially focussing on photography and sharing photos taken with a smartphone before becoming a general social media platform