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35,000 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE: Cave Paintings
A kind a painted drawing on cave wall or ceiling that homo sapiens created to communicate or tell their story to the future generation. -
3000 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE: Clay Tablets
A flat surface made of clay primary use for writing: documented transactions, government regulations, exchange of information. -
2500 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE: Papyrus
Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. -
220 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE: Printing Press using Wood Block
A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink. -
200 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE: Smoke signals
Smoke signals were especially useful as a tracking tool. In a time before maps existed, groups moving from one location to another could follow each other by following “directions” made from smoke. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE: Newspaper
A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE: Punch Card
A punched card or punch card is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital information represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. The information might be data for data processing applications or, in earlier examples, used to directly control automated machinery. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE: Mail
The mail or post is a system for physically transporting postcards, letters, and parcels. A postal service can be private or public, though many governments place restrictions on private systems. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE: Motion Picture Photography
Motion picture, also called film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE: Telegraph
It is for a long-distance transmission of textual or symbolic messages without the physical exchange of an object bearing the message. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE: Morse Code
Morse code is a method of transmitting text information as a series of on-off tones, lights, or clicks that can be directly understood by a skilled listener or observer without special equipment. It's comprised of sequences of short and long signals called "dots" and "dashes", or "dits" and "dahs". -
ELECTRONIC AGE: Fax
Fax (short for facsimile), sometimes called telecopying or telefax (the latter short for telefacsimile), is the telephonic transmission of scanned printed material (both text and images), normally to a telephone number connected to a printer or other output device. -
ELECTRONIC AGE: Typewriter
A mechanical or electromechanical device use to produce print. -
ELECTRONIC AGE: Phonograph
The phonograph is a device, invented in 1877, for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. The sound vibration waveforms are recorded as corresponding physical deviations of a spiral groove engraved, etched, incised, or impressed into the surface of a rotating cylinder or disc, called a "record". -
ELECTRONIC AGE: Radio
An electronic device that receives radio waves and converts the information carried by them to a usable form. Intended to inform or entertain the mass. -
ELECTRONIC AGE: Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound. -
DIGITAL AGE: RAM
Random-access memory (RAM /ræm/) is a form of computer data storage that stores data and machine code currently being used. A random-access memory device allows data items to be read or written in almost the same amount of time irrespective of the physical location of data inside the memory. -
ELECTRONIC AGE: Electronic Computers
ENIAC (Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer) was amongst the earliest electronic general-purpose computers made. It was able to solve "a large class of numerical problems" through reprogramming. -
ELECTRONIC AGE: Transistor
The invention of transistor ushered the electronic age. It led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. -
DIGITAL AGE: Pager
A pager (also known as a beeper) is a wireless telecommunications device that receives and displays alphanumeric messages and/or receives and announces voice messages. -
ELECTRONIC AGE: Transistor Radio
A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. -
ELECTRONIC AGE: Mainframe computer
Mainframe computers are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications; bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing. -
DIGITAL AGE: Electronic Mail
Electronic Mail (email or e-mail) is a method of exchanging messages between people using electronic devices. -
DIGITAL AGE: Mobile Phones
A mobile phone, known as a cell phone in North America, 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. -
DIGITAL AGE: Home Computers
Home computers were a class of microcomputers entering the market in 1977, and becoming common during the 1980s. They were marketed to consumers as affordable and accessible computers that, for the first time, were intended for the use of a single nontechnical user. -
DIGITAL AGE: Bulletin Board System
A bulletin board system or BBS is a computer server running software that allows users to connect to the system using a terminal program. Once logged in, the user can perform functions such as uploading and downloading software and data, reading news and bulletins, and exchanging messages with other users through email, public message boards, and sometimes via direct chatting. -
DIGITAL AGE: Short Messaging Services
Text messaging, or texting, is the act of composing and sending electronic messages, typically consisting of alphabetic and numeric characters, between two or more users of mobile phones, tablets, desktops/laptops, or other devices. Text messages may be sent over a cellular network, or may also be sent via an Internet connection. -
DIGITAL AGE: Laptop
A laptop, often called a notebook or "notebook computer", is a small, portable personal computer. Laptops are folded shut for transportation, and thus are suitable for mobile use. -
DIGITAL AGE: Compact Disc
Compact disc (CD) is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony and released in 1982. The format was originally developed to store and play only sound recordings but was later adapted for storage of data (CD-ROM). -
DIGITAL AGE: Web Search Engine
A 'web search engine' is a software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web. The search results are generally presented in a line of results. Examples are Bing, Google, etc. -
DIGITAL AGE: World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the 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. -
DIGITAL AGE: Internet
The Internet is the global system of interconnected computer networks that use the Internet protocol suite to link devices worldwide. It paved the way for faster communication and the creation of social network. -
DIGITAL AGE: Mosaic
NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet. It is the first web browser capable of displaying inline images. It paved way to Internet Explorer, Safari, Google Chrome, etc. -
DIGITAL MEDIA: Social Media
After blogging was invented Social media became very popular. Then Website and applications were improved after smart phones was introduces. Examples are Six Degrees (1997), Friendsters (2002), Fcebook (2004), Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007), and Youtube (2005). -
DIGITAL AGE: Smartphone
A smartphone is a handheld personal computer with a mobile operating system and an integrated mobile broadband cellular network connection for voice, SMS, and Internet data communication; most if not all smartphones also support Wi-Fi. Smartphones are typically pocket-sized, as opposed to tablets, which are much larger. They are able to run a variety of software components, known as “apps”.
