The Evolution of Traditional to New Media

  • Acta Diurna in Rome

    Acta Diurna in Rome
    Acta Diurna were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette.They were carved on stone or metal and represented in message boards in public places like Forum of Rome.
  • Industrial Age (1700 to1930)

    Industrial Age (1700 to1930)
    People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press.)
  • Pre- Industrial (1750 to 1850)

    Pre- Industrial (1750 to 1850)
    .It refers to the time before the existence of written or recorded history.Pre-industrial society refers to social attributes and forms of political and cultural organization that were prevalent before the advent of the Industrial Revolution, which occurred from 1750 to 1850. Pre-industrial is a time before there were machines and tools to help perform tasks en masse.People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze,copper and iron.
  • Cave Paintings

    Cave Paintings
    Cave paintings is also known as "parietal art" are painted drawings on cave walls or ceilings, mainly of prehistoric origin, dated to some 40,000 years ago ( around 38,000 BCE) in Eurasia.
  • Cunieform

    Cunieform
    Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE. It is considered the most significant among the many cultural contributions of the Sumerians and the greatest among those of the Sumerian city of Uruk which advanced the writing of cuneiform c. 3200 BCE.
  • Papyrus

    Papyrus
    Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in acient times as writting surface.It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant.Cyperus papyrus,a wetland sedge.
  • Codex in Mayan Region (15th century)

    Codex in Mayan Region (15th century)
    A codex, plural codices, is a book contructed of a number of sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or small materilas, with hand written contents.
  • Printing Press Using Wood Blocks (220 AD)

    Printing Press Using Wood Blocks (220 AD)
    Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in antiquity as a method of printing on textiles and later paper.
  • Typewritter

    Typewritter
    An electric, electronic, or manual machine with keys for producing printlike characters one at a time on paper inserted around a roller.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph
    A system for transmitting message from a distances a along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    A system that converts acoustic vibrations to electrical signals in order to transmit sound, typically voices, over a distance using wire or radio.
  • Electronic Age (1930 to 1980)

    Electronic Age (1930 to 1980)
    Electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use.This age is the invention of the transistor.People harnessed the power of transistor that led to the transistor communication becoming more efficient.
  • Television

    Television
    A system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education.
  • Mainframe Computers

    Mainframe Computers
    Mainframe computers (colloquially refferd to as "big iron" are computers used primarily by large organization for critical applications,bulk data processing, such as sensus, industry and consumers statistics, enterprise resource planning, and transaction processing.
  • Transistor Radio

    Transistor Radio
    A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. they became the most popular electronic communication device in history, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s. Their pocket size sparked a change in popular music listening habits, allowing people to listen to music anywhere they went..
  • Apple Computer 1

    Apple Computer 1
    Apple computer 1, also known as the Apple 1 is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976
  • Apple Computer 2

    Apple Computer 2
    The Apple II (stylized as Apple ][) is an 8-bit home computer, one of the first highly successful mass-produced microcomputer products, designed primarily by Steve Wozniak (Steve Jobs oversaw the development of the Apple II's foam-molded plastic case and Rod Holt developed the switching power supply).
  • New Information Age (1980s to 2000s)

    New Information Age (1980s to 2000s)
    The Information Age (also known as the Computer Age, Digital Age, or New Media Age) is a historic period in the 21st century characterized by the rapid shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information technology.
  • Laptops

    Laptops
    A laptop, also called a notebook computer or simply a notebook, is a small, portable personal computer with a "clamshell" form factor, having, typically, 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. The "clamshell" is opened up to use the computer. Laptops are folded shut for transportation, and thus are suitable for mobile use.
  • Smartphones

    Smartphones
    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
  • Skype

    Skype
    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. Skype additionally provides instant messaging services. Users may transmit both text and video messages, and may exchange digital documents such as images, text, and video. Skype allows video conference calls.
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook is 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.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    YouTube is a video sharing service where users can watch, like, share, comment and upload their own videos. The video service can be accessed on PCs, laptops, tablets and via mobile phones.
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    witter is known as a micro-blogging site. Blogging has been around for some time. Usually blogging consists of people setting up basic websites where they write about whatever they want, whether it be politics, sport, cooking, fashion etc. Posting a message is known as a tweet. People make connections by following other people’s twitter feeds. Once you click follow, anything that person or organisation says will appear on your timeline
  • Instagram

    Instagram
    Instagram is a social networking app made for sharing photos and videos from a smartphone. Similar to Facebook or Twitter, everyone who creates an Instagram account has a profile and a news feed.is a photo and video-sharing social networking service owned by Facebook, Inc. It was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger, and launched in October 2010 exclusively on iOS.