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2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
A medium for writing purposes.
Originally meant " That which Belongs to the House" -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia
Writing medium and where historically used in the ancient near east especially for writing cuneiform -
1700 BCE
PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE (BEFORE 1700)
People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron -
Period: 1700 BCE to
INDUSTRIAL AGE
People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press) -
500 BCE
Codex in the Mayan Region (5th Century)
Folding books written by the Pre-columbian maya civilization in maya hieroglyphic script on meso american bark cloth -
200 BCE
Dibao in China (2nd century)
A type of publications issued by central and local governments in imperial china -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome
Daily roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette. Also called simply "Acta" -
35 BCE
Cave Paintings
Paintings on cave walls and ceilings, usually dating to prehistoric times. Earliest known european cave painting date to 32,000 years ago -
Telegraph
A system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection -
Telephone
A system that converts acoustic vibrations to electrical signals in order to transmit sound, typically voices, over a distance using wire or radio -
Typewriter
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 -
Printing Press For Mass Production
Allow us to share large amounts of information quickly and in huge numbers -
Period: to
DIGITAL AGE
The internet played 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 -
Motion Picture (with sound)
Emphasized reproducing human motion -
Period: to
ELECTRONIC AGE
The invention of the transistor or 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 become more efficient -
Television
A telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in mono chrome (black and white), or in colour, and in two or three dimensions and sound -
Large Electronic Computer
In computer science, a digital electronic computer is a computer machine which is both an electronic computer and a digital computer. All kinds of computers, whether they are digital or analog, and electronic or non-electronic, can be Turing complete if they have sufficient memory -
Mainframe Computer
Mainframes are a type of computer that generally are known for their large size, amount of storage, processing power and high level of reliability. They are primarily used by large organizations for mission-critical applications requiring high volumes of data processing -
Transistor Radio
Small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuit -
Apple Computer 1
Apple Computer 1, also known later as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a desktop computer. It was designed and hand-built by Steve Wozniak. First apple computer that originally sells for $666.66 -
Portable Laptop
Portable personal computers that combine the components, inputs, outputs and capabilities of a desktop computer in a small chassis -
Tablet
The associated special operating software is an example of pen computing technology, and thus the development of tablets has deep historical roots. The first patent for a system that recognized handwritten characters by analyzing the handwriting motion -
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems -
Google
American multinational technology company that specializes in Internet-related services and products, which include online advertising technologies, search engine, cloud computing, software, and hardware -
Friendster
Social networking website that connects individuals across the world with the hopes of helping them develop friendships -
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 -
Facebook
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, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes -
Twitter
American online news 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 for all languages except Chinese, Japanese, and Korean
