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35,000 BCE
CAVE PAINTING
They have been found in Europe, Africa, Australia and Southeast Asia.The most common themes in European cave paintings are large wild animals and tracings of human hands as well as abstract patterns. -
2500 BCE
PAPYRUS IN EGYPT
The papyrus of Egypt is most closely associated with writing - but the Egyptians found many uses for the plant other than a writing surface for documents and texts. It also played a part in religious devotion as it was often bound together to form the symbol of the ankh and offered to the gods as a gift. Papyrus also served as a political symbol through its use in the Sma-Tawy, the insignia of the unity of Upper and Lower Egypt. -
2400 BCE
CLAY TABLETS IN MESOPOTAMIA
Clay tablets were used for accounting, literary, administrative documents. Indian historical tradition attests to the use of copper plates for conveyancing property rights. So far, no other civilization has recorded such use of copper plates as recording devices for economic transactions. The clay tokens were some of the early findings of mesopotamia but it seems as if the Mesopotamian's gave up the use of such clay tokens all together after a particular length of time. -
500 BCE
CODEX IN THE MAYAN REGION
Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, written in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican paper, made from the inner bark of certain trees, the main being the wild fig tree or Amate (Ficus Glabrata), this paper was named by the Mayas Huun. They are the products of professional scribes working under the patronage of the Howler Monkey Gods. The Dresden codex is generally considered the most important of the few that survive. -
220 BCE
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. Ukiyo-e is the best known type of Japanese woodblock art print. Most European uses of the technique for printing images on paper are covered by the art term woodcut, except for the block-books produced mainly in the 15th century. -
200 BCE
DIBAO IN CHINA
The Chinese “Dibao” is the earliest and oldest newspaper in the world. During West Han time, Han government carried out the “Jun xian zhi” the county system which is helpful in concentrating the central power. 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. So these placards or damasks with information were called “Dibao”s. -
130 BCE
ACTA DIURNA IN ROME
The first proto-newspaper appeared as early as 131 B.C. It was an ancient Roman daily gazette called Acta Diurna. It informed citizens of political and social happenings in ancient Rome.News of events such as military victories, gladiatorial bouts and other games, births and deaths and even human-interest stories were inscribed on metal or stone and posted in areas with heavy foot traffic.
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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. -
INDUSTRIAL AGE (1700-1930)
The Industrial Age 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, characterized chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with power-driven machines such as the power loom and the steam engine, and by the concentration of industry in large establishments. -
TYPEWRITTER
"an artificial machine or method for the impressing or transcribing of letters singly or progressively one after another." But the first typewriter proven to have worked was built by the Italian Pellegrino Turri in 1808 for his blind friend Countess Carolina Fantoni da Fivizzano; unfortunately, we do not know what the machine looked like, but we do have specimens of letters written by the Countess on it. -
TELEGRAPH
Michael Faraday's recently invented electromagnet was much discussed by the ship's passengers, Telegraph, any device or system that allows the transmission of information by coded signal over distance. Many telegraphic systems have been used over the centuries, but the term is most often understood to refer to the electric telegraph, which was developed in the mid-19th century and for more than 100 years was the principal means of transmitting printed information by wire or radio wave. -
TELEPHONE
Alexander Graham Bell receives a patent for his new invention–the telephone. Bell became very interested in the possibility of transmitting speech over wires. Bell wanted to improve on this by creating telegraph, a device that combined aspects of the telegraph and record player to allow individuals to speak to each other from a distance.Three days after the telephone carried its first intelligible message–the famous “Mr. Watson, come here, I need you”–from Bell to his assistant. -
MOTION PICTURE PHOTOGRAPHY/PROJECTION
The discovery of motion picture photographing was prompted by the perception of the physiological phenomenon that the retina of the human eye preserves the sight even after its disappearance, and perceives phases of motion as uninterrupted sequence.
The notion that motion consists of phases and is but a change of condition has been known since Antiquity. -
PUNCH CARDS
The standard punched card, originally invented by Herman Hollerith, was first used for vital statistics tabulation by the New York City Board of Health and several states. After this trial use, punched cards were adopted for use in the 1890 census. It is card perforated according to a code, for controlling the operation of a machine, used in voting machines and formerly in programming and entering data into computers. -
PRINTING PRESS FOR MASS PRODUCTION (19TH CENTURY)
A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. Typically used for texts, the invention and spread of the printing press was one of the most influential events in the second millennium. -
COMMERCIAL MOTION PICTURES
Experiments in photographing movement had been made in both the United States and Europe during the latter half of the 19th cent. with, at first, no exploitation of its technical and commercial possibilities. Serial photographs of racehorses, intended to prove that all four hooves do leave the ground simultaneously, were obtained (c.1867) in California by Eadweard Muybridge and J. D. Isaacs by setting up a row of cameras with shutters tripped by wires. -
MOTION PICTURE WITH SOUND
The idea of combining motion pictures with recorded sound is nearly as old as the concept of cinema itself. A couple of days after photographic pioneer Eadweard Muybridge gave a lecture not far from the laboratory of Thomas Edison, the two inventors privately met. Muybridge, six years before the first commercial motion picture exhibition, he proposed a scheme for sound cinema that would combine his image-casting zoopraxiscope with Edison's recorded-sound technology. -
ELECTRONIC AGE
Since the 1980s electronics and communications technologies have become integrated into nearly every aspect of American life, transforming the ways in which people shop, find information, work, and communicate with one another. Cell phones, which were once novelties occupying the middle front seat of a car, can now be found in the pockets of many twelve-year-olds. Computers and the Internet, once only accessible to those who worked. -
TELEVISION
German inventor Paul Gottlieb Nipkow had developed the first mechanical television. That device sent images through wires using a rotating metal disk. Instead of calling the device a television, however, Nipkow called it an electric telescope. The device had 18 lines of resolution. These early televisions started appearing in the early 1800s. They involved mechanically scanning images then transmitting those images onto a screen. Compared to electronic televisions. -
LARGE ELECTRONIC COMPUTERS- i.e. EDSAC
The EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator), the first serial electronic calculating machine to operate a regular computing service, is widely regarded as the first commercial "computer" and saw use well into the 1950's. The machine was launched on the 6th of May 1949, nearly seven years after the Colossus Mark 1 was built at Bletchley Park. The software should be compatible with Windows, Linux and Macintosh. -
OHP PROJECTORS
While 3M liked the idea and developed it into the first overhead projector, the idea lacked support in the marketplace. Appledorn went out himself to approach teachers, who saw its potential enough for the product to take off. Buhl Industries were among the first major manufacturers of overhead projectors.Companies were slow to adopt the technology because hand-written notes were considered too informal. Only when photocopies became available was that particular hurdle overcome. -
UNIVAC
On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC, the world’s first commercially produced electronic digital computer. UNIVAC, which stood for Universal Automatic Computer, was developed by J. Presper Eckert and John Mauchly, makers of ENIAC, the first general-purpose electronic digital computer. These giant computers, which used thousands of vacuum tubes for computation, were the forerunners of today’s digital computers. -
TRANSISTOR RADIO
The mighty transistor radio was the first piece of technology that gave young people complete musical freedom from parental disapproval. In creating a new avenue for artistic expression and the dissemination of new ideas, the transistor radio is often considered a key element of the powerful musical and cultural movement that accompanied its widespread proliferation. -
MAINFRAME COMPUTERS - i.e. IBM 704
IBM announces the IBM 704 Data Processing System, the world’s first mass produced computer to feature floating point arithmetic hardware. Besides this ultra-geeky distinction, the IBM 704 will leave its mark in computer history before it is discontinued on April 7, 1960. Both the FORTRAN and LISP programming languages were first developed for the IBM 704, -
PERSONAL COMPUTERS - i.e. HEWLETT - PACKARD 9100A
The new Hewlett-Packard 9100A personal computer, is ready, willing, and able ... to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer... Ready to relieve you of waiting to get on the big computer... Willing to perform log and trig functions, even hyperbolics and coordinate transformations at the touch of a key. Able to take on roots of a fifth-degree polynomial, Bessel functions, elliptic integrals and regression analysis. -
LCD PROJECTORS
The LCD projector was invented by New York inventor Gene Dolgoff. The idea was to use an element referred to as a “light valve” to regulate the amount of light that passes through it. This would allow the use of a very powerful external light source. He settled on liquid crystals to modulate the light in 1971. It took him until 1984 which is when he built the world’s first LCD projector. -
APPLE 1
The original Apple Computer, also known retroactively as the Apple I, or Apple-1, is a personal computer released by the Apple Computer Company (now Apple Inc.) in 1976. The Apple I was a fully assembled circuit board containing about 60+ chips. However, to make a working computer, users still had to add a case, power supply transformers, power switch, ASCII keyboard, and composite video display. -
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. -
TABLETS
is a mobile device, typically with a mobile operating system and LCD touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single thin, flat package. Tablets, being computers, do what other personal computers do, but lack some I/O capabilities that others have. Modern tablets largely resemble modern smartphones. -
WEB BROWSER MOSAIC
NCSA Mosaic, or simply Mosaic, is the web browser that popularized the World Wide Web and the Internet. It was also a client for earlier internet protocols such as File Transfer Protocol, Network News Transfer Protocol, and Gopher. The browser was named for its support of multiple internet protocols. -
INTERNET EXPLORER
Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. It was first released as part of the add-on package Plus! for Windows 95 that year. -
YAHOO!
Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc.. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. -
YAHOO!
Yahoo! is a web services provider headquartered in Sunnyvale, California and owned by Verizon Communications through Oath Inc.. The original Yahoo! company was founded by Jerry Yang and David Filo in January 1994 and was incorporated on March 2, 1995. -
GOOGLE
Google LLC is 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. -
GOOGLE
Google LLC is 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. -
BLOGSPOT
Pyra Labs launched a program called “Blogspot” in 1999 that would let people run their own blogs. The program was bought by Google in 2003, and changed to Blogger in 2006.What is most interesting about this tidbit will be that I don’t mention it in the Podcast. It was brought to my attention after the weekend recordings were made. Nonetheless, it is what brought us to a Social Network world of today and needed to be talked about. -
LIVEVJOURNAL
LiveJournal is a community publishing platform, willfully blurring the lines between blogging and social networking. LiveJournal encourages communal interaction and personal expression by offering a user-friendly interface and a deeply customizable journal. The service's individuality stems from the way highly dedicated users utilize our simple tools, along with the instinct for individual expression, to create new venues for online socializing. -
INFORMATION AGE (1900s - 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. -
VIRTUAL REALITY
Virtual reality is an interactive computer-generated experience taking place within a simulated environment. It incorporates mainly auditory and visual feedback, but may also allow other types of sensory feedback like haptic. This immersive environment can be similar to the real world or it can be fantastical -
FRIENDSTER
Friendster,. 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.In May of 2011, the site abandoned user profiles and transitioned into a social entertainment site. -
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. -
WORDPRESS
WordPress was born out of a desire for an elegant, well-architectured personal publishing system built on PHP and MySQL and licensed under the GPL. It is the official successor of b2/cafelog. WordPress is modern software, but its roots and development go back to 2001. It is a mature and stable product. We hope that by focusing on user experience and web standards we can create a tool different from anything else out there. -
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. Multiply had over 11 million registered users. -
FACEBBOK
Facebook is a social networking service launched on February 4, 2004. It was founded by Mark Zuckerberg with his college roommate and fellow Harvard University student Eduardo Saverin. The website's membership was initially limited by the founders to Harvard students and by September 2006, to everyone with a valid email address along with an age requirement of being 13 and older. -
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. Most of the content on YouTube is uploaded by individuals -
TWITTER
Twitter, Inc. is an 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 Korea -
TUMBLR
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. -
NOTEBOOKS
A notebook is an extremely lightweight personal computer. Notebook computers typically weigh less than six pounds and are small enough to fit easily in a briefcase. Notebook computers use a variety of techniques, known as flat-panel technologies, to produce a lightweight and non-bulky display screen. In terms of computing power, modern notebook computers are nearly equivalent to personal computers. They have the same CPUs, memory capacity and disk drives. -
SMARTPHONES
Smartphones are a class of multi-purpose mobile computing device. 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. -
SMARTPHONES
Smartphones are a class of multi-purpose mobile computing device. 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. -
GOOGLE HANGOUTS
Google Hangouts is a communication platform developed by Google which includes messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP features. -
GOOGLE HANGOUTS
Google Hangouts is a communication platform developed by Google which includes messaging, video chat, SMS and VOIP features. -
WEARABLE TECHNOLOGY
Wearable technology, wearables, fashionable technology, wearable devices, tech togs, or fashion electronics are smart electronic devices that can be incorporated into clothing or worn on the body as implants or accessories -
CLOUD AND BIG DATA
The rise of big data cloud computing and cloud data stores have been a precursor and facilitator to the emergence of big data. Cloud computing is the commodification of computing time and data storage by means of standardized technologies. It has significant advantages over traditional physical deployments. However, cloud platforms come in several forms and sometimes have to be integrated with traditional architectures.
