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35,000 BCE
Pre-Industrial Age: Cave Paintings (35000 BC)
The evolution of traditional media to new media. Prehistoric refers to the time before the existence of written or recorded history. Cave paintings are some specific examples of pre-historic media in the 35 000 BCE. Source: www.classtools.net/QR/questions_list.php?fold=8&fname=EEf5F&diff=0 -
2500 BCE
Pre-Industrial Age: Papyrus (2500 BC)
Papyrus is a plant (cyperus papyrus) which once grew in abundance, primarily in the wilds of the Egyptian Delta but also elsewhere in the Nile River Valley, but is now quite rare. The papyrus of Egypt is most closely associated with writing - in fact, the English word 'paper' comes from the word 'papyrus' - but the Egyptians found many uses for the plant other than a writing surface for documents and texts. Source: https://www.ancient.eu/Egyptian_Papyrus/ -
2400 BCE
Pre-Industrial Age: Clay Tablets (2400 BC)
Over five thousand years ago, people living in Mesopotamia developed a form of writing to record and communicate different types of information.The earliest writing was based on pictograms. Pictograms were used to communicate basic information about crops and taxes. Source: http://www.mesopotamia.co.uk/writing/home_set.html -
130 BCE
Pre-Industrial Age: Acta Diurna (130 BC)
Copies of Acta Diurna ("Daily Events", or the "Daily Public Record"), were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places like the Roman Forum beginning about 130 BCE. They were also called simply Acta or Diurna or sometimes Acta Popidi or Acta Publica. These are thought to be the first daily gazettes. Source: www.historyofinformation.com/expanded.php?id=1636 -
Industrial Age: The London Gazzete (1640)
The Gazette has a long and established history, and has been at the heart of British public life for over 350 years. Source: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/history -
Industrial Age: Typewriter (1800)
Typewriter, any of various machines for writing characters similar to those made by printers’ types, especially a machine in which the characters are produced by steel types striking the paper through an inked ribbon with the types being actuated by corresponding keys on a keyboard and the paper being held by a platen that is automatically moved along with a carriage when a key is struck. Source: https://www.britannica.com/technology/typewriter -
Industrial Age: Telegraph (1837)
Telegraph, any device or system that allows the transmission of information by coded signal over distance. Many telegraphic systems have been used over the centuries, but the term is most often understood to refer to the electric telegraph, which was developed in the mid-19th century and for more than 100 years was the principal means of transmitting printed information by wire or radio wave. Source: https://www.britannica.com/technology/telegraph -
Industrial Age: Telephone (1876)
Telephone, an instrument designed for the simultaneous transmission and reception of the human voice. The telephone is inexpensive, is simple to operate, and offers its users an immediate, personal type of communication that cannot be obtained through any other medium. As a result, it has become the most widely used telecommunications device in the world. Billions of telephone sets are in use around the world. Source: https://www.britannica.com/technology/telephone -
Industrial Age: Motion Picture Photography/Projection (1890- 1926)
Cinematography, the art and technology of motion-picture photography. It involves such techniques as the general composition of a scene; the lighting of the set or location; the choice of cameras, lenses, filters, and film stock; the camera angle and movements; and the integration of any special effects. Commercial motion pictures (1913) and motion picture with sound (1926). Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/cinematography -
Electronic Age: Television (1941)
Television (TV), the electronic delivery of moving images and sound from a source to a receiver. Conceived in the early 20th century as a possible medium for education and interpersonal communication, it became by mid-century a vibrant broadcast medium, using the model of broadcast radio to bring news and entertainment to people all over the world. -
Electronic Age: EDSAC (1949)
EDSAC, in full Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator, the first full-size stored-program computer, built at the University of Cambridge, Eng., by Maurice Wilkes and others to provide a formal computing service for users. EDSAC was built according to the von Neumann machine principles enunciated by the Hungarian American scientist John von Neumann and, like the Manchester Mark I, became operational in 1949. Source: https://www.britannica.com/technology/EDSAC -
Electronic Age: UNIVAC (1951)
UNIVAC, in full Universal Automatic Computer, one of the earliest commercial computers. The UNIVAC I was designed as a commercial data-processing computer, intended to replace the punched-card accounting machines of the day. It could read 7,200 decimal digits per second, making it by far the fastest business machine yet built. Source: https://www.britannica.com/technology/UNIVAC -
Electronic Age: Transistor Radio (1954)
transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Transistor_radio -
Electronic Age: IBM 704 (1960)
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), leading American computer manufacturer, with a major share of the market both in the United States and abroad. Its headquarters are in Armonk, N.Y.In 1933 IBM purchased Electromatic Typewriters, Inc., and thereby entered the field of electric typewriters, in which it eventually became an industry leader. Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/International-Business-Machines-Corporation -
Electronic Age: Apple 1 (1976)
Apple Computer 1, also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs had the idea of selling the computer. The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apple_I -
Information Age: Mosaic (1993)
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. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mosaic_(web_browser) -
Information Age: Google Browser (1995)
Google Inc., American search engine company, founded in 1998 by Sergey Brin and Larry Page that is a subsidiary of the holding company Alphabet Inc. More than 70 percent of worldwide online search requests are handled by Google, placing it at the heart of most Internet users’ experience. Its headquarters are in Mountain View, California. Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Google-Inc -
Information Age: Internet Explorer (1995)
Internet Explorer (IE), World Wide Web (WWW) browser and set of technologies created by Microsoft Corporation, a leading American computer software company. After being launched in 1995, Internet Explorer became one of the most popular tools for accessing the Internet. Source: https://www.britannica.com/technology/Internet-Explorer -
Information Age: Yahoo (1995)
Yahoo!, in full Yahoo! Inc., global Internet services provider based in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Communications since 2017. It was founded in 1994 by Jerry Yang and David Filo, graduate students at Stanford University in California. Yahoo! provides users with online utilities, information, and access to other Web sites. Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Yahoo-Inc -
Information Age: Friendster (2002)
Friendster was launched in 2002 with the initial goal of competing with popular subscription-fee-based dating services such as Match.com. It deviated from this mission fairly early on, and it soon became a meeting place for post-“bubble” Internet tastemakers. Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/social-network#ref1073276 -
Information Age: Skype (2003)
Skype, software for communication over the Internet, which includes voice, video, and instant message capabilities. Skype was one of the early successes in using the voice-over-Internet protocol (VoIP). Luxembourg-based Skype Technologies, founded by Niklas Zennström of Sweden and Janus Friis of Denmark, first introduced the software client in 2003. Source: https://www.britannica.com/technology/Skype -
Information Age: Multiply (2003)
Multiply was a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share media – such as photos, videos and blog entries – with their "real-world" network. The website was launched in March 2004 and was privately held with backing by VantagePoint Venture Partners, Point Judith Capital, Transcosmos, and private investors. Multiply had over 11 million registered users. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Multiply_(website) -
Information Age: Facebook (2004)
Facebook, American company offering online social networking services. Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all of whom were students at Harvard University. Facebook became the largest social network in the world, with more than one billion users as of 2012, and about half that number were using Facebook every day. The company’s headquarters are in Menlo Park, California. Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Facebook -
Information Age: Youtube (2005)
YouTube, Web site for sharing videos. It was registered on February 14, 2005, by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim, three former employees of the American e-commerce company PayPal. They had the idea that ordinary people would enjoy sharing their “home videos.” The company is headquartered in San Bruno, California.Shortly after the site opened on a limited (“beta”) basis in May 2005, it was attracting some 30,000 visitors per day. Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/YouTube -
Information Age: Twitter (2006)
Twitter, online microblogging service for distributing short messages among groups of recipients via personal computer or mobile telephone. Twitter incorporates aspects of social networking Web sites, such as Myspace and Facebook, with instant messaging technologies to create networks of users who can communicate throughout the day with brief messages, or “tweets.” Source: https://www.britannica.com/topic/Twitter -
Information Age: Tumblr (2007)
Tumblr is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Users can follow other users' blogs. Bloggers can also make their blogs private. For bloggers many of the website's features are accessed from a "dashboard" interface. Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tumblr
