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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
Cave paintings, or parietal art, are painted drawings or pictures of animals or objects usually seen on the walls and ceilings of caves, most of which are of prehistoric origin. Some theories proclaim that the said paintings were used as mediums of communication between people of that time. The earliest cave paintings were found in caves located in Indonesia. -
Period: 35,000 BCE to
Pre-Industrial Age
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2400 BCE
Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia
Mesopotamian clay tablets were used as a writing medium during the Bronze and Iron ages. The said tablets were inscribed with cuneiform when wet using reed pens or forms of stylus for accounting usage. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna
The Acta Diurna, also known as the Acta, are Roman official notices which were posted in public places in Rome during around the 131 BC. They were posted daily, and they had content that included results of legal proceedings, the outcomes of trials, public notices, prominent births, important marriages, and other content. -
220
Woodblock Printing Press
Woodblock printing, which originated in China, is a technique for printing text, images, and patterns. It was used widely in areas throughout East Asia, and also served as a method of printing on cloth in China (during 220 AD). It was also the most common East Asian method of printing books and other forms of texts until the 19th century. -
Period: to
Industrial Age
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Typewriter
The typewriter is a machine for inscribing words, characters, and texts through the utilization of keys that strike a ribbon containing ink or carbon impressions. By striking the keys, the ribbon would transfer the ink to the writing medium (usually paper). It was introduced in 1874, but was not common until the mid 1800s. -
Punch Card
Punch cards are pieces of stiff paper that are embedded with digital data through the use of the patterned absence or presence of holes which would be placed around certain predetermined locations on the paper. It was developed during the 1800s by Herman Hollerith. -
Telegraph
The telegraph is a device that enables long-distance communication with others through electric signal transmission over wires laid between multiple stations. It was developed by Samuel Morse during the mid 1800s. It utilizes a code made (morse code) by Samuel Morse to send messages. -
Printing Press
The printing press is a machine that utilizes various methods in order to transfer text to paper. Notable methods that were commonly utilized in the 19th century were the usage of metal presses, power-driven cylinder press, rotary presses, and flatbed presses. -
Period: to
Digital Age
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Television
The television, or TV, is a machine used to transmit moving pictures in either monochrome colors, or in multicolor situations. They usually come with two or three dimensions and are also able to transmit audio. Television is also considered as a mass medium for various forms of entertainment, politics, advertising, and gossip. It became available in experimental forms in the 1920s, but was not popular until soon after. -
Period: to
Electronic Age
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EDSAC
The electronic delay storage automatic calculator, or EDSAC, was an early British computer. It was based on Neumann's First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC. It operated during the the sixth of May, 1949, and shut down during the year of 1958. It was able to calculate a table of squares and a list of prime numbers. -
UNIVAC 1
The Universal Automatic Computer 1 (or the UNIVAC 1) was the first commercial computer developed in the United States. It was developed mainly by the same developers of the ENIAC, and was used for multiple tasks (such as the prediction of the 1952 US presidential elections). -
Transistor Radio
The transistor radio is a small portable electrical audio receiver that allowed people to listen to music wherever they were due to its portability. Its development was made possible through the introduction of transistors in 1947. -
Laptops
Laptops, or notebooks (notebook computer), are small and portable personal computers that are able to be folded shut for transportation that allows ease of access and portability. Laptops usually have the same specs common personal computers have and are able to access the same applications of personal computers depending on the operating system used. They were first imagined and developed during the 1970s after the introduction of personal computers to the world. -
Wearable Technology
Wearable technology, which are also called wearables and fashion electronics, are smart electronic devices that can be worn on the body (commonly the arm or as implants on the body). They have a variety of uses which are currently growing up to now. The first known example of wearables would be the calculator watch which was introduced in the 1980s. -
Blogspot
Blogspot, or Blogger, is a blog-publishing service that was first launched during the month of August, 1999. It was developed by a named company (Pyra Labs) which was bought by Google four years after the service was launched. It allows users to publish blogs for other people to see on the internet. -
Skype
Skype is a telecommunications software service that provides video chat and call services to its users. It uses various mediums such as smartphones, laptops, personal computers, tablets, and many more. It was developed by Skype Technologies and was first launched during the 29th of August, 2003.
