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35,000 BCE
Pre- Industrial age (Before 1700's)
cave painting (35,000 BC)
The oldest type of cave paintings are hand stencils and simple geometric shapes. -
2500 BCE
Pre- Industrial age (Before 1700's)
Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC)
A material made from the pith or the stems of this sedge, used by the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans especially to write or paint on. -
2400 BCE
Pre- Industrial age (Before 1700's)
Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)
were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. -
220 BCE
Pre- Industrial age (Before 1700's)
Printing press using wood clocks (220 AD)
Around 220 AD the Chinese began printing pictures on silk and other fabrics -
Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)
Newspaper- The London Gazette (1640) The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. -
Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)
Typewriter (1800) Telephone (1876)
The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868. -
Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)
Telegraph (1844)
the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)
Motion picture photography/ projection (1890)
is one of the oldest of modern imaging, technologies that remains current today. -
Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)
Printing press for mass production (19th century)
is type printing introduced the era of mass communication, which permanently altered the structure of society -
Industrial Age (1700s-1930s)
Motion picture with sound (1926)
the first major motion picture to premiere with a full-length synchronized soundtrack. -
Electronic Age (1930s- 1980s)
Television (1941)
the United States implemented 525-line television. Electrical engineer Benjamin Adler played a prominent role in the development of television -
Electronic Age (1930s- 1980s)
Transistor Radio (1947)
Building on war-time research, John Bardeen and Walter Brattain, working with group leader William Shockley, developed a device they called a transistor. -
Electronic Age (1930s- 1980s)
Large electronic computer- i.e EDSAC (1949) and UNIVAC 1 (1951) -
Electronic Age (1930s- 1980s)
Mainframe computers- i.e. IBM 704 (1960) mainframes are high-performance computers with large amounts of memory and processors that process billions of simple calculations and transactions in real time. -
Electronic Age (1930s- 1980s)
Personal computer- i.e. HewlettPackard 9100A (1968), Apple 1 (1976) is an early programmable calculator (or computer), first appearing in 1968. -
Information Age (1900s-2000s)
Portable computers- laptops (1980)
designed and marketed by the studies and developments department of the French firm R2E Micral in 1980 at the request of the company CCMC specializing in payroll and accounting. -
Information Age (1900s-2000s)
The first smartphone, created by IBM, was invented in 1992 and released for purchase in 1994. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator (SPC) -
Information Age (1900s-2000s)
Internet Explorer (1995) In July 1995 Microsoft released Internet Explorer 1.0 as an add-on to the Windows 95 operating system. -
Information Age (1900s-2000s)
Yahoo (1995) The Guide was a directory of other websites, organized in a hierarchy, as opposed to a searchable index of pages. -
Information Age (1900s-2000s)
skype (2003) The Skype software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, Jaan Tallinn, and Toivo Annus. It allowed users to transfer funds via the Skype mobile app in the middle of a conversation. -
Information Age (1900s-2000s)
Facebook (2004)
is a social networking service launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg and college roommates and fellow Harvard University students, in particular Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. -
Information Age (1900s-2000s)
YouTube (2005)
In February 2005 three former PayPal employees, Chad Hurley, Steve Chen and Jawed Karim, launched the YouTube website for publishing and sharing video files. The first video called "Me at the zoo" was uploaded to YouTube on 23 April, 2005 by one of the co-founders, Jawed Karim. -
Information Age (1900s-2000s)
Twitter (2006)
Twitter began as an idea that Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey had in 2006. Dorsey had originally imagined Twitter as an SMS-based communications platform. Groups of friends could keep tabs on what each other were doing based on their status updates.11 Sep 2020
