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35,000 BCE
Cave Painting
Cave or rock paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times -
Period: 35,000 BCE to
Pre-Industrial Age
People discovered fire, developed paper
from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
The papyrus plant is a reed that grows in marshy areas around the Nile river. In ancient Egypt it was used to make the writing material. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia
Clay Tablet 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). -
500 BCE
Codex in Mayan
A codex is a manuscript and there are three or four handwritten by the Maya from before colonization by Spain. -
200 BCE
Dibao in China
The Chinese “Dibao” is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world. Dibao literally "reports from the [official] residences", were a type of publications issued by central and local governments in imperial China. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome
Acta Diurna were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette. They were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places like the Forum of Rome. They were also called simply Acta. -
220
Printing Press using Wood Blocks
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. -
Newspaper - London Gazette
The London Gazette Extraordinary, published on 6 November 1805, published Vice-Admiral Collingwood’s dispatches from the Battle of Trafalgar. -
Period: to
Industrial Age
People used the power of steam, developed machines
tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press). -
Typewriter
The concept of a typewriter dates back at least to 1714, when Englishman Henry Mill filed a vaguely-worded patent for "an artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another." -
Telegraph
An electrical telegraph is a telegraph that uses electrical signals, usually conveyed via dedicated telecommunication circuit or radio. -
Telephone
Telephone is a device for communicating sound, especially speech, usually by means of wires in an electric circuit. -
Motion picture photography/projection
Motion picture theory is simple and clear‐cut. Motion film is composed of a series of still pictures. When the still pictures are projected progressively and rapidly onto a screen, the eye perceives motion, hence they become a motion picture. -
Punch Cards
The standard punched card, originally invented by Herman Hollerith, was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states. -
Printing Press for Mass Production
Printing press, machine by which text and images are transferred to paper or other media by means of ink. In its essentials, the wooden press reigned supreme for more than 300 years, with a hardly varying rate of 250 sheets per hour printed on one side. -
Period: to
Information Age
The Internet paved the way for faster communication and the
creation of the social network. People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention
of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image,
sound and data are digitalized. We are now living in the information age. -
Motion Picture with Sound
A 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
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 computers. In this age, long distance communication became more efficient. -
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. -
EDSAC
Short for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, EDSAC is an early British computer considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. -
UNIVAC 1
The UNIVersal Automatic Computer I was the first commercial computer produced in the United States. -
Transistor Radio
A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry -
IBM 704 (Mainframe Computers)
The IBM 704, introduced by IBM in 1954, is the first mass-produced computer with floating-point arithmetic hardware. -
Hewlett- Packard 9100A (Personal Computer)
The Hewlett-Packard 9100A (hp 9100A) is an early computer (or programmable calculator), first appearing in 1968. -
LCD Projectors
An LCD projector is a type of video projector for displaying video, images or computer data on a screen or other flat surface. It is a modern equivalent of the slide projector or overhead projector. To display images, LCD (liquid-crystal display) projectors typically send light from a metal-halide lamp through a prism or series of dichroic filters that separates light to three polysilicon panels – one each for the red, green and blue components of the video signal. -
Apple 1 (Personal Computers)
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. -
Wearable Technology
Wearable technology, or fashion electronics are smart electronic device that can be worn on the body as implants or accessories.Wearable devices such as activity trackers are best example of the Internet of Things, since "things" such as electronics, software, sensors, and connectivity are effectors that enable objects to exchange data (including data quality[5]) through the internet with a manufacturer, operator, and/or other connected devices, without requiring human intervention. -
Laptops (Portable Computers)
A laptop, also called a notebook computer or just notebook, is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor, having, typically, a thin LCD or LED computer screen mounted on the inside of the upper lid of the "clamshell" and an alphanumeric keyboard on the inside of the lower lid. The "clamshell" is opened up to use the computer. Laptops are folded shut for transportation, and thus are suitable for mobile use. -
Smartphones
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 tablet computers, which are much larger.the first true smartphone actually made its debut three years earlier in 1992. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator, and it was created by IBM. -
Mosaic (Web Browser)
NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet. It was also a client for earlier internet protocols such as File Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol, and Gopher. The browser was named for its support of multiple internet protocols. -
tablets
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a portable personal computer, typically with a mobile operating system and LCD touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single thin, flat package. Tablets, being computers, do what other personal computers do, but lack some I/O capabilities that others have. -
Internet Explorer(Web Browser)
Internet Explorer[a] (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer[b] and Windows Internet Explorer,[c] commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE) is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. -
Google (search engine)
Google began in January 1996 as a research project by Larry Page and Sergey Brin when they were both PhD students at Stanford University in Stanford, California.While conventional search engines ranked results by counting how many times the search terms appeared on the page, the two theorized about a better system that analyzed the relationships among websites. They called this new technology PageRank; it determined a website's relevance by the number of pages, -
Blogspot (Blog sites)
A blog (a truncation of the expression "weblog")[1] is a discussion or informational website published on the World Wide Web consisting of discrete, often informal diary-style text entries ("posts"). Posts are typically displayed in reverse chronological order, so that the most recent post appears first, at the top of the web page. -
Cloud (Online information storage)
Cloud computing is an information technology (IT) paradigm that enables ubiquitous access to shared pools of configurable system resources and higher-level services that can be rapidly provisioned with minimal management effort, often over the Internet. Cloud computing relies on sharing of resources to achieve coherence and economies of scale, similar to a public utility. -
Friendster (Social Media)
Friendster was a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It was originally a social networking service website. Before Friendster was redesigned, the service allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. The website was also used for dating and discovering new events, bands and hobbies. -
WordPress (Blog site)
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL.[4] To function, WordPress has to be installed on a web server, which would either be part of an Internet hosting service or a network host in its own right. -
Skype (Video Chatting)
Skype was founded in 2003 by Niklas Zennström, from Sweden, and Janus Friis, from Denmark. The Skype software was created by Estonians Ahti Heinla, Priit Kasesalu, and Jaan Tallinn. The first public beta version was released on 29 August 2003.Skype (/skaɪp/) is a telecommunications application software product that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet and to regular telephones. -
Facebook (Social Media)
Facebook is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. Its website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes. -
YouTube (Video Sharing Platform)
YouTube is an American video-sharing website headquartered in San Bruno, California. The service was created by three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries.YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. -
Twitter (Microblog)
Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets".Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year. The service rapidly gained worldwide popularity.
