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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
Cave paintings are paintings painted on cave or rock walls and ceilings. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
Papyrus is a plant that grows wild all over the Nile river valley.
The world's oldest paper. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets
Were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). -
1962 BCE
Punch Cards
A punch card is a simple piece of paper stock that can hold data in the form of small punched holes, which are strategically positioned to be read by computers or machines. It is an early computer programming relic that was used before the many data storage advances relied upon today. A punch card is also known as a punched card, IBM card or Hollerith card. -
Period: 1700 BCE to 1700 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGES
Peoples discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron.
A time before there were machines and tools to help perform tasks. -
Period: 1700 BCE to 1930 BCE
INDUSTRIAL AGES
Is a period of history that encompasses the changes in economic and social organization that began around 1760 in Great Britain and later in other countries -
1640 BCE
Newspaper-The London Gazette
The most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published.
The London Gazette is not just the country’s oldest newspaper: it is also the worthiest.
The Gazette owes its origin to the Great Plague that swept London in 1665. -
220 BCE
Printing press using wood blocks
Cited as the single greatest invention for world civilization. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome
Translated from the Latin to mean ‘Daily Acts’ or ‘Daily Public Records’. They contained various forms of news, ranging from the official to entertainment, and even astrological readings. -
19 BCE
Printing Press for mass production
Johannes Gutenberg is usually cited as the inventor of the printing press.
The printing press is one of the most important inventions of all time.
A printing press is any form of technology that applies pressure between an inked surface and a print medium (like paper or cloth). In this sense, it is a means of transferring ink from an inked surface and the medium. -
5 BCE
Codex in The Mayan
The folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper.
An ancient document containing a terrible warning for civilization. -
Typewriter
A mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by printer's movable type. -
Telegraph
Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791-1872) and other inventors.
It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
Telephone
The First Telephone Call March 10, 1876.
A telecommunications device that permits two or more users -
Motion pictures photography/projection
One of the oldest of sound motion picture. -
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INFORMATION AGE
The Evolution of Traditional to New Media People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound, and data are digitized. -
Commercial Motion Pictures w/ sound
Commercial motion picture, also called film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Because of the optical phenomenon known as persistence of vision, this gives the illusion of actual, smooth, and continuous movement. -
Period: to
ELECTRONIC AGE
The invention of the transistor ushered in the 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
A vsystem for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education. -
Large Electronic Computers (Edsac 1941)
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. Wilkes built the machine chiefly to study computer programming issues, which he realized would become as important as the hardware details. -
Large Electronic Computers (Univac I)
UNIVAC, in full Universal Automatic Computer, one of the earliest commercial computers. After leaving the Moore School of Electrical Engineering at the University of Pennsylvania, J. Presper Eckert, Jr., and John Mauchly, who had worked on the engineering design of the ENIAC computer for the United States during World War II, struggled to obtain capital to build their latest design, a computer they called the Universal Automatic Computer, or UNIVAC. -
Games (Augmented Reality)
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 -
Games (Virtual reality)
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 -
Mainframe Computers
Main frame means that a frame for holding a number of processors and main memory.
It is a combination of memory (RAM) and many processors. -
Personal Computer (HP 9100A)
It is an early programmable calculator.
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. -
Personal computer (Apple 1)
A desktop computer that came as a single motherboard, pre-assembled, unlike other personal computers of that era. -
Portable Computers (Laptop)
A laptop computer is a portable personal computer powered by a battery, or an AC cord plugged into an electrical outlet, which is also used to charge the battery. ... A laptop computer is smaller than a desktop computer, generally less than three inches thick, and lesser weight. -
Smartphones
A cellular telephone with an integrated computer and other features not originally associated with telephones such as an operating system, web browsing, and the ability to run software applications. -
INFORMATION AGES
The web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet.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.Mosaic was also the first browser to display images inline with text instead of displaying images in a separate window. -
Portable Computers (Tablet)
A tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device, typically with a mobile .... Also based on PenPoint was AT&T's EO Personal Communicator from 1993, which ran on AT&T's own hardware -
Web Browser (Internet explorer)
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, starting in 1995. -
Search Engines (Yahoo)
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.
Yahoo stands for "Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle." -
Search Engines (Google)
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.
Founded in September 1998 by Larry Page and Sergey Brin while they were Ph.D. students at Stanford University in California. -
Blogs (Blogspot)
Is a blog publishing service platform owned by Google where users can create a blog for free.
Furthermore, Blogspot is a content management system because its used to create and modify the digital content like WordPress, but with less flexibility. -
Blogs (LiveJournal)
A social media platform that allows members to keep a blog, journal, or diary and share their interests. -
Social networks (Friendster)
The first social networking sites.
It was launched by Jonathan Abrams, members are typically teenagers or young adults in their 20's. -
Blogs (Wordpress)
A content management system (CMS) based on PHP and ... WordPress was released on May 27, 2003, by its founders, Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little. -
Social networks (Multiply)
A social network with a heavy focus on sharing media with friends and family, is getting a major upgrade at 10 AM tomorrow, introducing an overhauled (and much improved) interface, extensive photo editing functionality, a fully integrated photo finishing platform. -
Video chat (Skype)
Skype was created in 2003 at a company founded by Niklas Zennström and Janus Friis.
A spoken conversation with (someone) over the Internet using the software application Skype, typically also viewing by webcam. -
Social network (Facebook)
A popular free social networking website that allows registered users to create profiles, upload photos and video, send messages and keep in touch with friends, family and colleagues -
Video (Youtube)
Youtube is the name of a website that allows people to show videos they have made
A popular video sharing website where registered users can upload and share videos with anyone able to access the site. -
Microblogs (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.” -
Microblogs (Tumblr)
A 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. -
Portable Computers (Netbook)
Netbook is a generic name given to a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and .... Ending in 2008 the report was that the typical netbook featured a 1.4 kg (3 lb) weight, a 9 in (23 cm) screen, wireless Internet connectivity, Linux or Windows -
Video chat (Google Hangout)
A communication software product developed by Google.
An app that combines typed conversations, images, and video conferencing into a single, seamless experience -
Wearable technology
Wearable technology (also called wearable gadgets) is a category of technology devices that can be worn by a consumer and often include tracking information related to health and fitness. Other wearable tech gadgets include devices that have small motion sensors to take photos and sync with your mobile devices. -
Cloud and Big Data
Big data refers to voluminous, large sets of data whereas cloud computing refers to the platform for accessing large sets of data. In other words, big data is information while cloud computing is the means of getting information. Big Data is a terminology used to describe huge volume of data and information.
