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35,000 BCE
CAVE PAINTING (35,000 BC)
These are drawing painted on the ceilings and walls of the caves. They used it for communication, ceremonial or religious purposes. -
2500 BCE
PAPYRUS IN EGYPT (2500 BCE)
It is 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 a width. It is also called Papyrus Roll/Scroll. -
2400 BCE
CLAY TABLETS IN MESOPOTAMIA (2400 BCE)
Used for accounting, literary, administrative documents. It was written in a wet clay sharpened stick, or stylus. The shape of it is cuneiform. -
130 BCE
ACTA DIURMA IN ROME (130 BC)
It is the first and oldest newspaper in the world. It was also called “Daily Acts” or “Daily Public Records”.
It was carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places. -
220
PRINTING PRESS USING WOODBLOCKS (220)
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns. -
500
CODEX IN THE MAYAN (500)
Are folding books written by pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. -
PRINTING PRESS FOR THE MASS PRODUCTION (1600)
It is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. -
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. -
TELEPHONE (1876)
It was invented by Alexander Graham Bell. It was his Large Box Telephone. It is an apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically. -
MOTION PICTURES PHOTOGRAPHY/PROJECTION (1890)
Also called as film or movie, series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. -
TELEGRAPH (1900)
Revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. -
PUNCH CARDS (1910)
It was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states. -
COMMERCIAL MOTION PICTURES WITH SOUND (1913)
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound. -
NEWSPAPER–THE LONDON GAZETTE (1640)
It is one of the official journals of record of the British government. -
TELEVISION (1941)
It is a telecommunications medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black-and-white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. -
LARGE ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS
Edsac (1949) -
MAINFRAME COMPUTERS (1960)
The world's first mass produced computer to feature floating point arithmetic hardware. -
PERSONAL COMPUTER
Apple I (1976) -
PORTABLE COMPUTERS
Laptop (1980) -
WEB BROWSER
Internet Explorer (1995) -
SEARCH ENGINES
Google (1996) -
BLOGS
Blogspot (1999) -
SOCIAL NETWORKS
Friendster (2002) -
VIDEO CHAT
Skype (2003) -
VIDEO
YouTube (2005) -
MICROBLOGS
Twitter (2006) -
GAMES
Augmented Reality -
WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
Wearable Technology -
CLOUD AND BIG DATA
Cloud and Big Data -
SMARTPHONES
