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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings(35, 000 BC)
-are drawings painted on
the ceilings and walls of
caves.
-communication purposes
-ceremonial or religious
purpose -
Period: 35,000 BCE to
THE PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE
Peoples discovered fire, developed paper
from plants, and forged weapons and
tools with stone, bronze, copper and
iron. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt (2500BC)
the world's first paper
the papyrus was limited to a standard
size running 47 cm in length at the
most (29-33 cm on the average), and
22 cm in width.
papyrus roll (scroll) -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets (2400BC)
used for accounting, literary,
administrative documents.
Cuneiform
written on wet clay with a sharpened
stick, or stylus. -
220 BCE
Printing Press using wood blocks (220 AD)
-Woodblock printing is a
technique for printing text, images
or patterns -
220 BCE
Printing Press for mass production (19th Century)
is a device for applying
pressure to an inked
surface resting upon a
print medium (such as
paper or cloth), thereby
transferring the ink. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurma in Rome (130 BC)
“Daily Acts” or “Daily Public
Records”
First newspaper.
carved on stone or metal and
presented in message boards in public
places. -
Newspaper-The London Gazette (1640)
is one of the official
journals of record of the
British government. -
Codex in The Mayan (5th Century)
-folding books written -
Period: to
INDUSTRIAL AGES (1700S-1930S)
Peoples used the power of steam, developed machine
tools, established iron production, and the
manufacturing of various product (including books
through the printing press). -
Typewriter (1800)
The first typewriter to be
commercially successful was
invented in 1868 by Americans
Christopher Latham Sholes,
Frank Haven Hall, Carlos
Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin, -
Telegraph
revolutionized longdistance communication.
It worked by transmitting
electrical signals over a
wire laid between stations. -
Telephone (1876)
Alexander Graham Bell’s
Large Box Telephone,
1876.
apparatus for
transmitting vocal or
other sounds
telegraphically, -
Motion Pictures Photography/Projection (1890)
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. The screen is blank (black) for 1/96th second. While picture number one is blanked out, the film moves to picture number two. The eye and mind retain the image of picture number one for that fraction of a second when the screen is black.The eye and memory record a smooth transition from picture one to picture two. -
Punch Cards
was first used for vital
statistics tabulation by the
New York City Board of
Health and several states.. -
Period: to
INFORMATION AGE (1900S – 2000S)
INFORMATION AGE (1900S – 2000S)
• 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. -
Commercial Motion Pictures w/ sound (1913)
A sound film is a
motion picture with
synchronized sound -
Period: to
ELECTRONIC AGE (1930S – 1980S)
The invention of the transistor ushered in the
electronic age. People harnessed the power of
transistor that led to the transistor radio, electronic
circuits, and the early computers. In this , long distance
communication become more efficient. -
Virtual reality (1939)
Virtual reality (VR) is a simulated experience that can be similar to or completely different from the real world. Applications of virtual reality can include entertainment (i.e. gaming) and educational purposes (i.e. medical or military training). Other, distinct types of VR style technology include augmented reality and mixed reality. -
Television (1941)
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. -
EDSAC (1949)
The Electronic delay storage automatic calculator was an early British computer. Inspired by John von Neumann's seminal First Draft of a Report on the EDVAC, the machine was constructed by Maurice Wilkes and his team at the University of Cambridge Mathematical Laboratory in England. -
UNIVAC I
The UNIVAC I was the first general purpose electronic digital computer design for business application produced in the United States. It was designed principally by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, the inventors of the ENIAC. -
Mainframe Computers
the world’s first mass
produced computer to
feature floating point
arithmetic hardware. -
Cloud and Big Data
Cloud computing is the on-demand availability of computer system resources, especially data storage and computing power, without direct active management by the user. The term is generally used to describe data centers available to many users over the Internet. Large clouds, predominant today, often have functions distributed over multiple locations from central servers. If the connection to the user is relatively close, it may be designated an edge server. -
HP 9100A (1968)
The Hewlett-Packard 9100A (hp 9100A) is an early programmable calculator (or computer), first appearing in 1968. HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. We therefore decided to call it a calculator, and all such nonsense disappeared." -
Apple I (1976)
The 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. The idea of selling the computer came from Wozniak's friend Steve Jobs. The Apple I was Apple's first product, and to finance its creation, Jobs sold his only motorized means of transportation. -
Laptop (1980)
A laptop (also laptop computer), often called a notebook, is a small, portable personal computer (PC) with a "clamshell" form factor, typically having 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. -
Wearable Technology
Wearable technology, wearables, fashion technology, tech togs, or fashion electronics are smart electronic devices (electronic device with micro-controllers) that can be incorporated into clothing or worn on the body as implants or accessories. -
Augmented reality (1992)
Augmented reality (AR) is an interactive experience of a real-world environment where the objects that reside in the real world are enhanced by computer-generated perceptual information, sometimes across multiple sensory modalities, including visual, auditory, haptic, somatosensory and olfactory. AR can be defined as a system that fulfills three basic features: a combination of real and virtual worlds, real-time interaction, and accurate 3D registration of virtual and real objects. -
Smartphones (1992)
Smartphones are a class of mobile phones and of multi-purpose mobile computing devices. They are distinguished from feature phones by their stronger hardware capabilities and extensive mobile operating systems, which facilitate wider software, internet (including web browsing over mobile broadband), and multimedia functionality (including music, video, cameras, and gaming), alongside core phone functions such as voice calls and text messaging. -
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. Its intuitive interface, reliability, Microsoft Windows port and simple installation all contributed to its popularity within the web, as well as on Microsoft operating systems. -
Internet Explorer 1995
Microsoft has developed eleven versions of Internet Explorer for Windows from 1995 to 2013. Microsoft has also developed Internet Explorer for Mac, Internet Explorer for UNIX and Internet Explorer Mobile respectively for Apple Macintosh, Unix and mobile devices. The first two are discontinued but the latter runs on Windows CE, Windows Mobile and Windows Phone. -
Yahoo (1995)
Yahoo! (/ˈjɑːhuː/) is an American web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, and owned by Verizon Media. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. Yahoo was one of the pioneers of the early Internet era in the 1990s. -
Google (1996)
Google LLC is an American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies, alongside Amazon, Apple, and Facebook. -
Blogspot 1999
Blogger is a blog-publishing service that allows multi-user blogs with time-stamped entries. It was developed by Pyra Labs, which was bought by Google in 2003. The blogs are hosted by Google and generally accessed from a subdomain of blogspot.com. Blogs can also be served from a custom domain owned by the user by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers. A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. -
LiveJournal 1999
LiveJournal is a community publishing platform, willfully blurring the lines between blogging and social networking. Since 1999 LiveJournal has been home to a wide array of creative individuals looking to share common interests, meet new friends, and express themselves. -
Friendster (2002)
Friendster was a U.S. social networking site based in Mountain View, CA, founded in 2003 by Jonathan Abrams. The company was sold in 2015 and became 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. -
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. -
Skype (2003)
Skype (/skaɪp/) is a telecommunications application that specializes in providing video chat and voice calls between computers, tablets, mobile devices, the Xbox One console, and smartwatches via the Internet. Skype also provides instant messaging services. Users may transmit text, video, audio and images. Skype allows video conference calls. -
Wordpress 2003
WordPress (WordPress.org) is a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL that is usually used with the MySQL or MariaDB database servers but can also use the SQLite database engine. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system, referred to inside WordPress as Themes. WordPress is most associated with blogging (its original purpose when first created). -
Facebook (2004)
Facebook is a social networking service launched as TheFacebook on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. -
Youtube (2005)
YouTube is an American video-sharing platform headquartered in San Bruno, California. Three former PayPal employees—Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed Karim—created the service in February 2005. Google bought the site in November 2006 for US$1.65 billion; YouTube now operates as one of Google's subsidiaries. -
Twitter (2006)
Twitter (/ˈtwɪtər/) is an American microblogging and social networking service on which users post and interact with messages known as "tweets". Tweets were originally restricted to 140 characters, but on November 7, 2017, this limit was doubled to 280 for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. Registered users can post, like, and retweet tweets, but unregistered users can only read them. -
Tumblr (2007)
Tumblr (stylized as tumblr and pronounced "tumbler") is an American microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by Automattic. 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.[4][5] For bloggers many of the website's features are accessed from a "dashboard" interface. -
Netbook (2008)
Netbook is a generic name given to a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive laptop computers that were introduced in 2007. Netbooks compete in the same market segment as mobiles and Chromebooks (a variation on the portable network computer). -
Google Hangouts (2013)
Google Hangouts is a communication software product developed by Google. Originally a feature of Google+, Hangouts became a standalone product in 2013, when Google also began integrating features from Google+ Messenger and Google Talk into Hangouts. In 2017, Google began developing Hangouts into a product aimed at enterprise communication. Hangouts is now part of the G Suite line of products and consists of two primary products: Google Hangouts Meet and Google Hangouts Chat. -
Google Hangouts (2013)
Google Hangouts is a communication software product developed by Google. Originally a feature of Google+, Hangouts became a standalone product in 2013, when Google also began integrating features from Google+ Messenger and Google Talk into Hangouts. In 2017, Google began developing Hangouts into a product aimed at enterprise communication. Hangouts is now part of the G Suite line of products and consists of two primary products: Google Hangouts Meet and Google Hangouts Chat.