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3500 BCE
Cave Paintings
Type of parietal art, found on the wall or ceilings of caves. -
2400 BCE
Clay tablets in Mesopotamia
Clay tablets were used for accounting, literary, administrative documents. Cuneiform documents were written on clay tablets, by means of a blunt reed for a stylus. -
500 BCE
Codex in the Mayan region
Maya codices are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper -
220 BCE
Printing press using wood blocks
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. -
200 BCE
Dibao in China
The Chinese “Dibao” is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world. During West Han time, Han government carried out the “Jun xian zhi” 郡县制, the eparch and county system which is helpful in concentrating the central power -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome
A Roman official sort of daily gazette. they were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places. -
Period: 1 BCE to 1700 BCE
Pre-Industrial Age
People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. -
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Industrial Age
People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products. -
Punched Cards
Punch cards used a variety of formats and sizes developed by various manufacturers in addressing their data storage needs throughout time -
Telegraph
the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
Daguerreotype camera
Introduced in 1839 in France by Louis J. M. Daguerre, the first photographic print process was the daguerreotype. It was made on a silver-coated copper plate which was, for all practical purposes, a mirror. The sensitizing agent was iodine, the developing agent was mercury. Once exposed in a camera and developed, the plate became a photograph on a mirror. Daguerreotypes were rarely used after 1860. -
Phonograph
The phonograph is a device for the mechanical recording and reproduction of sound. In its later forms, it is also called a gramophone -
Typewriters
a machine for writing in characters similar to those produced by printer's type by means of keyboard-operated types striking a ribbon to transfer ink or carbon impressions onto the paper. -
Hollerith Census Machine
The Census Machine read special punch cards, which contained information whose encoding was based on the position of holes in the card. -
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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 is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome or in color and in two or three dimensions and sound. The term can refer to a television set, a television program, or the medium of television transmission. Television is a mass medium for advertising, entertainment and news. -
EDSAC (Large Electronic Computer)
It is the abbreviation for Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, EDSAC is an early British computer considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. It was created at the University of Cambridge in England and performed its first calculation on May 6, 1949. -
Regency TR-1 (Transistor Radio)
It is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Their pocket size sparked a change in popular music listening habits, allowing people to listen to music anywhere they went. Two companies working together, Texas Instruments of Dallas, Texas and Industrial Development Engineering Associates (I.D.E.A.) of Indianapolis, Indiana, were behind the unveiling of the Regency TR-1, the world's first commercially produced transistor radio. -
Mainframe Computers
Mainframe computers are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications and bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning; and transaction processing. They are larger and have more processing power than some other classes of computers. -
Hewlett-Packard 9100A (Personal Computer)
The 9100A desktop computing calculator was introduced in March 1968. It was the first, totally self-contained programmable unit of its kind, which could fit on a desk. It included a display with three registers and a magnetic card reader. An optional printer, which fit neatly on the top of the 9100A, was offered separately. The 9100A used a PC board ROM for its algorithms, including log and trig functions. -
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. Currently, we are now living in the information age. -
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. Later versions were available as free downloads, or in service packs, and included in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows. The browser is discontinued, but still maintained. -
Google
The Google company was officially launched in 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin to market Google Search, which has become the most widely used web-based search engine. Page and Brin, students at Stanford University in California, developed a search algorithm – at first known as "BackRub" – in 1996. The search engine soon proved successful and the expanding company moved several times, finally settling at Mountain View in 2003 and this marked a phase of rapid growth. -
WordPress
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It is most associated with blogging, but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores. It is the most popular website management system in use.[8] Thus, it has also been used for other application domains such as pervasive display systems (PDS). It was released on May 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. -
Skype
Skype 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. Users may transmit both text and video messages, and may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video. Skype allows video conference calls. First released in August 2003, Skype was created by Niklas Zennström and Dane Janus Friis. -
Facebook
Facebook, Inc. 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.
It can be accessed from a large range of devices with Internet connectivity, such as desktop computers, laptops and tablet computers, and smartphones. -
Youtube
YouTube was created by PayPal employees as a video-sharing website where users could upload, share and view content. The Internet domain name "www.youtube.com" was activated on Monday, February 14, 2005. YouTube was founded by Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim, when they worked for PayPal. -
Twitter
Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets." Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. Users access Twitter through its website interface, through Short Message Service (SMS) or its mobile-device application software. It was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year. -
Netbooks
Netbook is a generic name given to a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive laptop computers that were introduced in 2007. At their inception in late 2007, as smaller notebooks optimized for low weight and low cost, netbooks omitted certain features, featured smaller screens and keyboards, and offered reduced computing power when compared to a full-sized laptop.
