Technology track

The Evolution of Media

  • 3500 BCE

    Cave Paintings

    Cave Paintings
    In prehistoric art, the term “cave paintings” encompasses any parietal art which involves the application of colour pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters.
    These paintings are ways of communicating and expressing the thoughts and experiences of the caveman during the pre-industrial age.
  • 2500 BCE

    Papyrus in Egypt

    Papyrus in Egypt
    The first papyrus was only used in Egypt, but by about 1000 BC people all over West Asia began buying papyrus from Egypt and using it. apart from writing materials, people also used it as mats, ropes and baskets.
  • 2400 BCE

    Clay Tablet in Mesopotamia

    Clay Tablet in Mesopotamia
    n the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (Akkadian ṭuppu) were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen).
  • 130 BCE

    Acta Diurna in Rome

    Acta Diurna in Rome
    The Roman Acta Diurna also known as ‘Daily Acts’ or ‘Daily Public Records’ were the daily public notices that were posted in certain public places around the ancient city of Rome. These notices kept the ancient inhabitants of Rome up to date with current events. They contained various forms of news, ranging from the official to entertainment, and even astrological readings.
  • Newspaper

    Newspaper
    The London Gazette is described as the United Kingdom's oldest continuously published newspaper and is the official newspaper of record for the United Kingdom.
    For 350 years the Gazette has disseminated Government news, regulatory and legal information, and trade and business news.
  • 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.
    People during the Pre-Industrial Age discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron.
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    INDUSTRIAL AGE

    In the industrial age, people used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press.
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    Telegraph and Punch Cards

    A telegraph message sent by an electrical telegraph operator or telegrapher using Morse code (or a printing telegraph operator using plain text) was known as a telegram. On the other hand, punch cards a card perforated according to a code, for controlling the operation of a machine, used in voting machines and formerly in programming and entering data into computers.
  • Typewriter

    Typewriter
    Typewriter, any of various machines for writing characters similar to those made by printers’ types, especially a machine in which the characters are produced by steel types striking the paper through an inked ribbon with the types being actuated by corresponding keys on a keyboard and the paper being held by a platen that is automatically moved along with a carriage when a key is struck. This is a traditional way of creating message to the audience,
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    Telephone, an instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice. The telephone is inexpensive, is simple to operate, and offers its users an immediate, personal type of communication that cannot be obtained through any other medium. As a result, it has become the most widely used telecommunications device in the world. Billions of telephones are in use around the world.
  • Motion Picture, Photography and Projection

    Motion Picture, Photography and Projection
    Motion picture photography, dating from the 1890s, is one of the oldest of modern imaging, technologies that remains current today. With the advent of change, on 1913, the 'Commercial Motion Picture' was discovered and on 1926, the 'Motion Picture with Sound' was established.
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    INFORMATION AGE

    Digital Age or Informational Age 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 internet paved the way advanced the used of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, devices wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sounds, and data are digitalized.
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    ELECTRONIC AGE

    The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio,electronic circuits and the early computer. In this age, long distance communication became more efficient.
  • Television

    Television
    he very first television ad appeared on July 1, 1941 during a baseball game on a local channel in New York. It was a ten-second commercial advertising Bulova watches and cost a mere four dollars, but it completely revolutionized both television and advertising.
  • Transistor Radio

    Transistor Radio
    A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s.
  • Large Electronic Computers

    Large Electronic Computers
    On 1949, EDSAC, a brand of a large electronic computers was made known and on 1951, they discovered UNIVAC which is also under the large electronic computers.
  • Main Frame Computers

    Main Frame Computers
    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.
  • Hewlett Packard

    Hewlett Packard
    The Hewlett-Packard Company or shortened to Hewlett-Packard was an American multinational information technology company headquartered in Palo Alto, California.
  • Apple 1

    Apple 1
    Apple Computer 1, also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer.
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    Internet and Web Browsers

    The Internet and Web browsers are interconnected. It became an avenue to easily reach out and communicate with the people. On 1995, the Internet explorer was established while on 1999, the blogspot was create. And on year 2003, the Wordpress which is a blogging site was also established.
  • Search Engines (GOOGLE)

    Search Engines (GOOGLE)
    Search Engines are used to seek and find new information using the Internet that can't be found on the available traditional resources such us books. Yahoo on 1995 was founded and on 1996, the Google was set up and now the famous search engine in these days.
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    Video Chat

    On 2003, the Skype has invented and made known to the people. Skype is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets and mobile device. In addition, another example of video chat is Google Hangouts. It is a communication platform developed by Google which includes messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP features, this was developed on 2013.
  • Social Networks (FACEBOOK)

    Social Networks (FACEBOOK)
    A social networking service is an online platform which people use to build social networks or social relations with other people who share similar personal or career interests, activities, backgrounds or real-life connections. The variety of stand-alone and built-in social networking services currently available online introduces challenges of definition; however, some common features exist.One of the example of a social network is Facebook which was established on 2004.
  • Videos (YOUTUBE)

    Videos (YOUTUBE)
    YouTube is a video sharing service where users can create their own profile, upload videos, watch, like and comment on other videos.
  • Micro blog (TWITTER)

    Micro blog (TWITTER)
    Twitter is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". These days, millennials tend to expressed their thoughts and feelings by the use of this micro blogs. Another example of micro blog is Tumblr which was established on 2007.
  • Portable Computers (NETBOOKS)

    Portable Computers (NETBOOKS)
    A portable computer was a computer designed to be easily moved from one place to another and included a display and keyboard.Portable computers, by their nature, were generally microcomputers. Laptops on 1980, Tablet on 1993 and Netbooks on 2008 are under the category of portable computers.
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    Wearable Computer

    Wearable computers, also known as wearables or body-borne computers, are small computing devices nowadays usually electronic that are worn under, with, or on top of clothing. The definition of 'wearable computer' may be narrow or broad, extending to smartphones or even ordinary wristwatches.
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    Cloud Data

    iCloud and Google Drive are known as cloud data where an individual can save and back up his works through online for convenience.