Media Through The Years

By Arianne Galenzoga
  • 3000 BCE

    Cave Paintings

    Cave Paintings
    Cave paintings are images or murals drawn or painted on the rock surfaces or a cave. They have been found in countries like France, Spain, North Africa, India, Central Asia, and China.
  • 2012 BCE

    Hieroglyphics

    Hieroglyphics
    Egyptian hieroglyphs are invented, which represent real or imaginary elements. These symbols showcase ideas, sound, and syllables.
  • 1000 BCE

    Petroglyphs

    Petroglyphs
    The first petroglyphs are created on hunter-gathering strategies. This is regarded as the first form of mass media.
  • 750

    Manuscript

    Manuscript
    The manuscript is invented, which is the predecessor of modern books and an important form of mass communication in the medieval times.This Tool is regarded as an effective means to widely reach and influence people.
  • 1450

    The Printing Press

    The Printing Press
    Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press, one of the most important developments in media.Before this invention no books were mass produces, and of those available only copies of the Bible were individually transcribed by monks. Gutenberg's press allowed several copies of a page to run by a machine.

  • First Newspaper in Europe

    First Newspaper in Europe
    This list of the oldest newspapers sorts the newspapers of the world by the date of their first publication. The earliest newspapers date to 16th century Europe when printed periodicals began rapidly to replace the practice of hand-writing news sheets. The emergence of the new media branch has to be seen in close connection with the simultaneous spread of the printing press from which the publishing press derives its name. the worlds first ever news paper.

  • Freedom's Journal

    Freedom's Journal
    Freedom’s Journal was founded by free born African Americans John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish on March 16, 1827 in New York City, New York. The newspaper contained both foreign and domestic news, editorials, biographies, births and deaths in the local African American community, and advertisements. The freedom's Journal made an enormous impact on the African American communities about slavery, racial discrimination, and other injustices against African Americans.

  • First Telegraph Line

    First Telegraph Line
    Developed by Samuel Morse. The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland.

  • First Computer

    First Computer
    Charles Babbage invents the punch computer, which sets the foundation for computing.

  • Early 1900s

    Early 1900s
    In 1905 Philippines had it's first telegraph and Telephone Systems operated. Asia’s first radio stations were found back then – possible as the Philippine broadcast media was not owned or tightly controlled by the government as it was all over the rest of the continent. By the 1930s, the press was as lively and increasingly in Filipino hands, setting up the tradition of powerful families investing in the media to gain political and economic influence.

  • Radio

    Radio
    Gugliemo Marconi invents the radio, a technological breakthrough with many media usages.

  • The oldest Newspapers

    The oldest Newspapers
    Manila Daily Bulletin and the Philippine Free Press Some of these publications are still with us today. In 1920, The Philippines Herald, a pro-Filipino newspaper, came out. Other nationalistic newspapers during the period did not last long due to American supression. Among these were El Nuevo Dia published in Cebu and El Renacimiento. But the most popular among the masa was the Tagalog newspaper Sakdal which attacked regressive taxes, big government, and abusive capitalists and landlords.

  • Television

    Television
    John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor, performed the first test of a working television system on October 2, 1925. Baird was eager to share the news of this accomplishment with the masses. He went to the office of his local daily newspaper to promote his invention. he was able to get the media's attention in January 1926, when he repeated the transmission for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laboratory.

  • The First Mobile Telephone

    The First Mobile Telephone
    The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. This device made it easier for the people to communicate in their times and slowly mobile phones upgraded until the 21st century.

  • The Internet Explorer

    The Internet Explorer
    The first ever web Browser that was made. Came with the internet Explorer, yahoo was also released in 1995 and it became a popular web service provider, as it displays current news that goes around the Globe.

  • SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES (PRESENT TIMES)

    SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES (PRESENT TIMES)
    By the early 2000s people started creating their own social networking sites. One the earliest sites made were, Multiply(2003),Skype(2003), Friendster(2002), Facebook(2004), Twitter(2006), Youtube(2005), Tumblr(2007), Instagram(2010), Snapchat(2011) and as gadgets become faster and smarter, these social apps continues to update as well making media easier and more convenient by just one click.