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35,000 BCE
Cave painting
-Cave painting (35,000BC)
To create the paint, cavemen used materials such as soil, water, plant juice, animal blood, and hematite. Sticks, small stones, leaves, and animal hair were put together to make the brushes. From using these tools, they are able to deliver messages to tell an event that already happened, teach how to hunt, and possibly for religious reasons. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
-was an integral feature of the ancient Nilotic landscape, essential to the ancient Egyptians in both the practical and symbolic realms. Needing shallow fresh water or water-saturated earth to grow, dense papyrus thickets were found in the marshes of the Nile Delta and also in the low-lying areas fringing the Nile valley. From a horizontal root, the slender but sturdy stalks, topped by feathery umbels ending in small brown fruit-bearing flowers, can reach up to five meters in height (30.4.60). -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets in Messopotamia
-Evidence of the first writing on clay tablets has been found in southern Mesopotamia. Because of their durability, clay tablets were also used in other areas including Persia, Asia Minor, and Syria. The use of clay tablets continued for a couple thousand years. -Record keeping was the the primary use for writing. Scribes documented transactions, inventories, and government regulations. Scribe schools flourish throughout Sumer. -
1700 BCE
Pre Industrial Age
-People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome
The Acta Diruna is said to have first appeared around 131/130 BC during the Roman Republic.The Acta Diurna , which were known also as the Acta Popidi or Acta Publica , was carved on stone or metal. As the Acta Diurna were meant to reach a public audience, they were placed at public places, such as the forum, the markets, or the thermal baths. Initially these notices reported ‘serious’ news of importance to the Roman populace, such as the results of legal proceedings, and the outcomes of trials. -
200
Dibao in China
Their responsibilities included collecting the messages announced by the administrative agents or even the empire, then writing them on the bamboo placard or the damask, and deliver them to their shire leaders via the early post station for reading. So these placards or damasks with information were called “Dibao”s -
220
Printing Press using wood blocks
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. As a method of printing on cloth, the earliest surviving examples from China date to before 220 AD, and woodblock printing remained the most common East Asian method of printing books and other texts, as well as images, until the 19th century. -
500
Codex in The Mayan
These codices were written in Mayan hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican paper, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being the wild fig tree or Amate (Ficus glabrata). Paper, generally known by the Nahuatl word amatl, was named by the Mayas huun. The folding books are the products of professional scribes working under the patronage of the Howler Monkey Gods. The Maya developed their huun-paper around the fifth century. -
Newspaper- The London Gazette
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. -
Typewriter
- this first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans Christopher Lantham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Winsconsin.
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Telephone
-Alexander Graham Bell's Large Box Telephone, 1876.
- apparatus for transmitting vocal or sounds telegraphically. -
Motion Pictures Photography/Projection
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. -
Punch Cards
- was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states. Punch cards also known as Hollerith cards and IBM cards are paper cards containing several punched or perforated holes that were punched by hand or machine to represent data. These cards allowed companies to store and access information by entering the card into the computer. The picture is an example of a woman using a punch card machine to create a punch card.
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Printing Press for mass production
-is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium, thereby transferring the ink. -
Commercial Motion Pictures with sound
- a sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound
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Telegraph
- revolutionized long distance communication.
- it worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.
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Television
- is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome, or in color, and in two or three dimension and sound
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Mainframe Computer
A mainframe computer is a combination of memory (RAM) and many processors.It acts as a central processing unit for many workstations and terminals connected with it. It's is used to process the large and huge amount of data in petabytes.It can control 1000 of user ’s. Name ‘Mainframe’ means that a frame for holding a number of processors and main memory. It's plays a significant role in e-business where hundreds to thousands of people connect to a server to precede their request in a real time. -
Personal Computer
Personal computer (PC), a digital computer designed for use by only one person at a time. A typical personal computer assemblage consists of a central processing unit (CPU) which contains the computer’s arithmetic, logic, and control circuitry on an integrated circuit; two types of computer memory, main memory such as digital random-access memory, and auxiliary memory, such as magnetic hard disks and special optical compact discs, or read-only memory (ROM) discs and various input/output devices. -
Web browser: Mosaic
Mosaic is a web browser for accessing files, graphics and other documents on the World Wide Web. It is sometimes credited with being the application that made the web available to the general public. Features that contributed to its popularity included ease of installation, reliability and a user-friendly interface. Mosaic was developed at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. It was released in 1993. -
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. Later versions were available as free downloads or in service packs, and included in the original equipment manufacturer (OEM) service releases of Windows 95 and later versions of Windows. The browser is discontinued but still maintained. -
Blogs: Blogspot
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 (like www.example.com) by using DNS facilities to direct a domain to Google's servers.A user can have up to 100 blogs per account. -
LiveJournal
LiveJournal is a social media platform that allows members to keep a blog, journal or diary and share their interests. Each LiveJournal account contains a journal page that shows all of a user's most recent journal entries and links to comments pages, similar to a blogroll. LiveJournal is also the name of the free and open source server software that was designed to run the LiveJournal virtual community. -
Social Network:Friendster
Friendster, none of them engaged the mainstream with the same success. Launched by Jonathan Abrams and Peter Chin in March 2002, the site was built on the premise that people were separated by six degrees. A feature that showed how you were connected to strangers made meeting people less intimidating and highly addictive. It was also considered a safe way to meet potential dates online. -
Wordpress
WordPress is a free and open-source content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. Features include a plugin architecture and a template system. It is most associated with blogging, but supports other types of web content including more traditional mailing lists and forums, media galleries, and online stores. Used by more than 60 million websites, including 30.6% of the top 10 million websites as of April 2018, WordPress is the most popular website management system in use. -
Multiply
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.Multiply had over 11 million registered users. -
Facebook
The founders initially limited the website's membership to Harvard students. Later they expanded it to higher education institutions in the Boston area the Ivy League schools, and Stanford University. Facebook gradually added support for students at various other universities and eventually to high school students.
Since 2006, anyone who claims to be at least 13 years old has been allowed to become a registered user of Facebook though variations exist in this requirement depending on local laws. -
Video: Youtube
YouTube allows users to upload, view, rate, share, add to favorites, report, comment on videos, and subscribe to other users. It offers a wide variety of user-generated and corporate media videos. Available content includes video clips, TV show clips, music videos, short and documentary films, audio recordings, movie trailers, live streams, and other content such as video blogging, short original videos, and educational videos. -
Microblogs: Twitter
Microblogging on social media platforms allows you to communicate with the world using a limited number of words. In Twitter’s case you have 140 characters to pass on your full message. Of course, you also have the option of adding images and videos as attachments. While most tweets are sent out as independent messages, you can create a chain or group of messages using trending hashtags. People looking to read about or join in your conversation can find them by searching through these hashtags. -
Tumblr
Tumblr (stylized as tumblr) is a microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007, and owned by Oath Inc.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. For bloggers many of the website's features are accessed from a "dashboard" interface.
