EVOLUTION OF MEDIA and HISTORY OF PHILIPPINE MEDIA

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    Pre-colonial Traces

    Pre-colonial Traces
    The cultural achievements of pre-colonial Philippines include those covered by the prehistory and the early history (900–1521) of the Philippines archipelago and its inhabitants, the indigenous forebears of today's Filipino people.
  • Pre-Industrial Age

    Pre-Industrial Age
    Pre-industrial society refers to social attributes and forms of political and cultural organization that were prevalent before the advent of the Industrial Revolution, which occurred from 1750 to 1850. Pre-industrial is a time before there were machines and tools to help perform tasks en masse. Pre-industrial civilization dates back to centuries ago, but the main era known as the Pre-Industrial Society occurred right before the industrial society.
  • 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.
  • The European Film Import

    The European Film Import
    Two years after launching cinema, the Lumiere brothers' cinematography film camera and projector invention made its way to Philippine shores via the efforts of a Spanish soldier named Carlo Naquera. With the cinematographe, he brought several Spanish-language short films and showed them to select audiences during 1897.
  • The Broadcast Industry

    The Broadcast Industry
    Broadcasting is the distribution of audio or video content to a dispersed audience via any electronic mass communications medium, but typically one using the electromagnetic spectrum (radio waves), in a one-to-many model. Broadcasting began with AM radio, which came into popular use around 1920 with the spread of vacuum tube radio transmitters and receivers.
  • Electronic Age

    Electronic Age
    The Information Age is also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age it 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 onset of the Information Age is associated with the Digital Revolution, just as the Industrial Revolution marked the onset of the Industrial Age.
  • Digital Age

    Digital Age
    During the Information Age, the phenomenon is that the digital industry creates a knowledge-based society surrounded by a high-tech global economy that spans over its influence on how the manufacturing throughout and the service sector operate in an efficient and convenient way.
  • Local Online Media

    Local Online Media
    The Philippines officially connected to the world of the Internet on March 1994 through the efforts of PHNET or Philippine Network Foundation, a consortium of various academic institutions, private companies, and government agencies.