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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
Also know as “pariental art”
• Painted drawings on cave walls and ceiling first used in Eurasia
• Theorized as ways of communicating
• Theorized also as for religious or ceremonial purposes -
Period: 35,000 BCE to
Pre-Industrial Age
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2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
From “pith” of Papyrus plant
• Similar to thick papers
• First used in Ancient Eypt
• Earliest archaeological evidence was excavated in 2012-2013 at Wadi al-Jarf (ancient Egyptian Harbor) -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia
• Writing medium, especial for writing in cuneiform during Bronze and Iron Age
• Invented probably by the Sumerians -
131 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome
• First used in Roman Republic
• Stated results of legal proceedings and outcomes of trials as well as Public and Military notices Acta Diurna in Rome -
200
Dibao in China
• Ancient Chinese Gazette
• Also called “Palace Reports” and “Imperial Bulletin”
• Maybe first used during early as the Han Dynasty or as late as the Tang Dynasty -
500
Maya Codices
• Folding books by the Pre- Columbian Maya Civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script in Mesoamerican bark cloth
• More durable and better writing surface than Papyrus -
700
Wood blocks as printing press
• Originated in China during Tang Dynasty
• Used in printing text, images, or patterns in those times INDUSTRIAL AGE 1440 Printing Press for Mass Production -
1400
Printing press for mass production
• Iron presses inspired by earlier attempts by Swiss typefounder Wilhlm Hass, Charles Stanhope built iron presses that can print around 200 impressions per hour. -
Period: 1400 to
Industrial Age
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Newspaper (London Gazette)
• One of the official journals of record of the British Government
• London Gazette- oldest surviving English newspaper
• First published as “Oxford Gazette” 1874 Typewriter -
Telegraph
• System of communication employing electronical apparatus to transmit and receive signals
• Invented in USA by Samuel F.B. Morse and in Britain by Sir Charles Weatstone with Sir William F. Cooke. -
Typewriter
• Mechanical and electrome- chanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer’s movable type
• Became common in offices during mid-1880s -
Telephone
• A telecommunication device • Alexander Graham Bell was the first one to be granted a United States patent for a device that produced clearly intelligible replication of the human voice. -
Kinetoscope
• Allows viewers to watch brief movie through a small peephole
• Developed by Thomas Edison from his other invention-phonograph • Still survived in the form of peep shows. -
Punch card
• Stiff paper used to contain digital information
• Card for computing data -
Motion picture photography/projection
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 -
Kinetophone
Provide music to accompany the image of the kinetoscope -
Period: to
Information Age
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Motion picture with sound
Sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. -
Period: to
Electronic Age
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Television
• Used for transmitting moving images
• Primary medium during 1950 -
ENIAC
• Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer
• One of the earliest electronic general- purpose computers made -
Transistor Radio
• Have patterns of holes punched in it ELECTRONIC AGE
• Small portable radio receiver that uses transistors in its circuits -
Mainframe Computers
• High-level computer designed for most intensive computational tasks -
LCD projector
• Displays video, image, or computer data -
Search Engines
• Software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web
• The information may be a mix of web pages, images, and other types of files. -
Blogs
Blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries • Developed by Pyra Labs -
Social networks
• Social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors. -
Video
Video-sharing Internet venture -
Microblogs
•broadcast medium that exists in the form of blogging • allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links