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3300 BCE
Egyptian hieroglyphics
Egyptian hieroglyphics were formal writing system used in Ancient Times. It combined logographic, syllabic and alphabetic elements, with a total of some 1,000 distinct characters. Cursive hieroglyphs were used for religious literature on papyrus and wood. The later hieratic and demotic Egyptian scripts are derived from hieroglyphic writing; Meroitic was a late derivation from demotic. -
1000 BCE
Papyrus
Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge.Papyrus can also refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined together side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book. -
1st newspaper in Europe
This list of the oldest newspapers sorts the newspapers of the world by the date of their first publication. The earliest newspapers date to 16th century Europe when printed periodicals began rapidly to replace the practice of hand-writing news sheets. The emergence of the new media branch has to be seen in close connection with the simultaneous spread of the printing press from which the publishing press derives its name. the worlds first ever news paper. -
The American Magazine
the first two magazines started publication in January 1741. Andrew Bradford's American Magazine, published in Boston, beat Franklin to press by three days. Franklin's publication, issued in Philadelphia, was called The General Magazine, and Historical Chronicle for all the British Plantations in America. -
Freedom's Journal
Freedom’s Journal was founded by free born African Americans John Russwurm and Samuel Cornish on March 16, 1827 in New York City, New York. The newspaper contained both foreign and domestic news, editorials, biographies, births and deaths in the local African American community, and advertisements. The freedom's Journal made an enormous impact on the African American communities about slavery, racial discrimination, and other injustices against African Americans -
La Opinion
Marked a milestone in Philippine Journalism; first opinion paper in the country; not fearful of govt. censors, criticized Spanish friars and campaigned for ouster of religious heads known as weeklies, fortnightlies, monthlies, quaterlies, journals or reviews. Specialized in commerce, industry, agriculture, professions, religion, govt., arts and letters. -
First Telegraph Line
Developed by Samuel Morse. The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations. In addition to helping invent the telegraph, Samuel Morse developed a code that assigned a set of dots and dashes to each letter of the English alphabet and allowed for the simple transmission of complex messages across telegraph lines. In 1844, Morse sent his first telegraph message, from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore, Maryland. -
First Transatlantic Cable
A transatlantic telegraph cable is an undersea cable running under the Atlantic Ocean used for telegraph communications. The first was laid across the floor of the Atlantic from Telegraph Field, Foilhommerum Bay, Valentia Island in western Ireland to Heart's Content in eastern Newfoundland. The first communications occurred August 16, 1858, reducing the communication time between North America and Europe from ten days – the time it took to deliver a message by ship to only 17 hours. -
Telephone
Alexander Graham Bell is the inventor of the first practical telephone. Bell was the first to obtain a patent, in 1876, for an "apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically", after experimenting with many primitive sound transmitters and receivers. -
Photographic film
The use of photographic film was pioneered by George Eastman. It recorded images in greyscale, and the quality in newspaper print was equal to film cameras. -
Radio
Guglielmo Marconi: an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. -
The Manila TImes
The Manila Times was the first ever daily newspaper in English; established by Thomas Gowan. The paper was created to serve mainly the Americans who were sent to Manila to fight in the Spanish–American War. At the time, most of the newspapers in the Philippines were in Spanish and a few others were in the native languages. -
Early 1900s
In 1905 Philippines had it's first telegraph and Telephone Systems operated. Asia’s first radio stations were found back then – possible as the Philippine broadcast media was not owned or tightly controlled by the government as it was all over the rest of the continent.. By the 1930s, the press was as lively and increasingly in Filipino hands, setting up the tradition of powerful families investing in the media to gain political and economic influence. -
Oldest Newspapers
Manila Daily Bulletin and the Philippine Free Press Some of these publications are still with us today. In 1920, The Philippines Herald, a pro-Filipino newspaper, came out. Other nationalistic newspapers during the period did not last long due to American supression. Among these were El Nuevo Dia published in Cebu and El Renacimiento. But the most popular among the masa was the Tagalog newspaper Sakdal which attacked regressive taxes, big government, and abusive capitalists and landlords. -
Television
John Logie Baird, a Scottish engineer and inventor, performed the first test of a working television system on October 2, 1925. Baird was eager to share the news of this accomplishment with the masses. He went to the office of his local daily newspaper to promote his invention. he was able to get the media's attention in January 1926, when he repeated the transmission for members of the Royal Institution and a reporter from The Times in his laboratory. -
The Fist Mobile telephone
The world’s first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone. This device made it easier for the people to communicate in their times and slowly mobile phones upgraded until the 21st century. -
Freedom of the Press
When martial law was declared, the first order issued by the late President Ferdinand E. Marcos was the "take over and control of all media communications." To counter propaganda churned out by the pro-government private media and the government's own media infrastructure, the so-called alternative press emerged in the 1980s. These were a handful of tabloid newspapers and some radio stations which defied government instructions on how to handle news stories. -
Browsing sites
By 1993, sources of browsing sites slowly began to appear. Some of these were Microsoft Windows, Mosaic, the commercial web and online ads. -
The Internet Explorer
The first ever web Browser that was made. Came with the internet Explorer, yahoo was also released in 1995 and it became a popular web service provider, as it displays current news that goes around the Globe. -
Google
Google became the most used search engine after Internet Explorer and Mozilla, as it continues to grow and update faster for the people's easier convenience. Because of its fast update systems google is used to search for daily news and needed information about a particular person or event. -
SOCIAL NETWORKING SITES (PRESENT TIME)
By the early 2000s people started creating their own social networking sites. One the earliest sites made were, Multiply(2003),Skype(2003), Friendster(2002), Facebook(2004), Twitter(2006), Youtube(2005), Tumblr(2007), Instagram(2010), Snapchat(2011) and as gadgets become faster and smarter, these social apps continues to update as well making media easier and more convenient by just one click.
