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35,000 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE
INSIGHT:
Everything has a beginning and as for media everything started in the pre-industrial age, the root of all things we have and we do right now. This age helped people in so many ways from documenting their happening, to communication, to dissemination of information and many others in their simple and unique ways. Hardwork was needed because everything has to be done manually, by getting foods to eat, building their own shelter and as well as having a poor communication. -
Papyrus in Egypt
Original Year: 2500 BCE;
Papyrus is a plant that grows wild all over the Nile river valley, so it is very common in Egypt. -
Dibao in China
Original Year: 200 BCE; The Chinese “Dibao” is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world. They have also been called "palace reports" or "imperial bulletins". -
Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia
Original year: 2400 BCE:
In 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. -
Cave Paintings
Original Year: 35000 BCE; 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 around. This was seen in cartoon shows such as the Flintsones. -
Printing Press using wood blocks
Original Year: 220 BCE;
Woodblock printing is a technique for printingtext, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE
Insight: In this age, we started to discover new means and ways to improve media in order to further communicate with other people.
Hence, we realized that the industrial age was like the shifting point of media wherein we evolved from using raw and natural materials for communicating to developing new machines and devices as tools for communication. These machines and devices can help make mass communication and production easier. -
Telephone
Original Year: 1879;The telephone was invented by Alexander Graham. It allows multiple messages to be sent over wire simultaneously. -
Motion Picture with Sound
Original Year: 1920; This is simply a film with sounds synchronized with the movements of the elements in the film. These type of films first evolved around 1920s. -
Typewriter
Original Year: 1874; Typewriters are mechanical machines used to write characters through typing the keys. -
Newspaper
Original Year: 1700; A newspaper is a periodical publication containing written information about current events. Newspapers were developed in the 17th century, as information sheets for businessmen. -
Motion Picture with Photography and Projection
Original Year: 1890; Motion picture, also called film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. -
ELECTRONIC
Insight: Seeing the media forms in the electronic age and comparing it to the ones we have now, we realized that we have come so far. It started as something complex but step-by-step, it just keeps advancing each day. Most of these are still used until this age; however they are already enhanced and updated. The ones we have now look way simpler in form and less complicated when it comes to function than what they had before. It made our lives become easier and convenient. -
Television
Original Year: 1941; It is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. -
OHP
Original Year: 1960; An OHP or Over Head Projector is a machine that has a light inside it and can be used to make the writing or pictures on a sheet of plastic appear on a screen or wall. -
LCD Projectors
Original Year: 1968; It is a type of vídeo projector for displaying video, images or computer data on a screen or other flat surface, sending 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. -
Transistor Radio
Original Year: 1954; A radio transistor is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. The radios have various colors and designs based on its manufacturer. It is used to listen to different kinds of music. -
Personal computer
Original Year: 1968; A personal computer is a general-purpose, cost-effective computer that is designed to be used by a single end-user. This has been one of the greatest inventions in technology. -
INFORMATION AGE
nsight: The information age made our lives easier and by this we mean easier communication, faster transactions and like holding the world in the palm of our hands. Compared to the other media ages, we realized that their is a huge difference between them. Each media age was a stepping stone to creating an innovative world. -
Internet Explorer
Original Year: 1995; Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer and Windows Internet Explorer, 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. -
Yahoo!
Original Year: 1994; Yahoo! is an Internet portal that incorporates a search engine and a directory of World Wide Web sites organized in a hierarchy of topic categories. As a directory, it provides both new and seasoned Web users the reassurance of a structured view of hundreds of thousands of Web sites and millions of Web pages. -
Google
Original Year: 1997; Their mission is to organize the world’s information and make it universally accessible and useful. -
Facebook
Original Year: 2004; Facebook is a social networking website where users can post comments, share photographs and post links to news or other interesting content on the web, chat live, and watch short-form video. -
Youtube
Original Year: 2005; YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. -
Twitter
Original Year: 2006; Twitter is an online news and social networking site where people communicate in short messages called tweets.
