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35,000 BCE
Cave Painting
Cave paintings are a type of parietal art (which category also includes petroglyphs, or engravings), found on the wall or ceilings of caves. Prehistoric men drew on caves what they see around them, such as animals and nature. It is the most well-known form of primitive communication. According to a popular theory the depictions were used as a manual for instructing others what animals were safe to eat. -
Period: 35,000 BCE to 401
PREHISTORIC AGE
In prehistoric times, your options would have been very limited. In these times, the use of fire, smoke, and horns were effective ways for groups or individuals to communicate the need for assistance or to share information about important events. Smoke signals were especially useful as a tracking tool. As prehistoric men learned how to sharpen their tools and use them for hunting, they acquired the knowledge on how to use these materials in carving stones. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus in Egypt
Egyptians wrote from the beginning in ink, on papyrus. Papyrus is a material similar to thick paper that was used in ancient times as a writing surface. It was made from the pith of the papyrus plant, Cyperus papyrus, a wetland sedge. Paper has been the daily bread of man's communication and at that time when the papyrus was invented Egyptians began to write there with ink to to circulate information or communicate to certain people. -
2400 BCE
Clay tablet
Clay tablets were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus. Tablets were dried in the sun or air, but still remained fragile. Then, unfired clay tablets were soaked in water and recycled into new clean tablets. In these tablets, writing evolved. Important and private clay tablets were coated with an extra layer of clay, so no one else would read it. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome
Acta Diurna (means: "daily acts") were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette. They were also called simply "Acta". In many ways, they functioned like an early newspaper for the Roman citizenry. They were carved on stone or metal and was presented on the walls of the city of Rome so that all could read it as they went about their daily affairs and businesses. -
101
Dibao in China (2nd Century)
‘Dibao’ is a general term to describe the ancient Chinese gazette. Dibao is a type of publication issued by central and local governments in imperial China, which was the only official government newspaper published by the ancient Chinese central government in different dynasties. It contained official political edicts, announcements, and news from the Chinese governments and were intended to be seen only by bureaucrats. -
220
Printing Press using wood blocks (220 AD)
Woodblock printing is a technique for printing text, images or patterns as a method of printing on textiles and later paper. Woodblock prints are recognized to be the oldest printing techniques, which originated in China. However, Japanese adopted the technique and pushed it over centuries to the highest pinnacle of craftmanship and artistic expression. -
401
Codex in the Mayan Region (5th Century)
Maya codices are folding books written by the pre-Columbian Maya civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican bark paper. The codices have been named for the cities where they eventually settled. The pages of the codices usually depict a deity and include a series of glyphs describing what the deity is doing. Many pages of these books also contain lists of numbers that allowed the Maya to predict lunar and solar eclipses, the phases of the moon, and movements of Mars and Venus. -
The London Gazette (Newspaper)
The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record or Government gazettes of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the UK, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. It claims to be the oldest English Newspaper and is continuously being published in UK. For its current publication, the London Gazette is published each weekday, except for bank holidays. -
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INDUSTRIAL AGE
During the industrial age, the main methods of communication were sending letters, printing of newspapers, sending messages through telegraphs, and radio broadcasting. After the development of radios, telephones were invented. People used the power of steams, developed machine tools, established iron production and the manufacturing of different products (including the production of books through the printing press). -
Typewriter
A typewriter is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for typing characters similar to those produced by a printer's movable type. A typewriter has an array of keys, and each one causes a different single character to be produced on the paper. Typewriters gave people new opportunities to communicate with each other more effectively and helped by reducing the time and expense involved in creating documents, encouraged the spread of systematic management.. -
Telegraph
Telegraphy is the long-distance transmission of textual messages where the sender uses symbolic codes, known to the recipient, rather than a physical exchange of an object bearing the message. The earliest true telegraph put into widespread use was the optical telegraph of Claude Chappe, invented in the late 18th century yet in the mid-19th century, the electric telegraph started to replace the optical telegraph. -
Telephone
A telephone is a device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. Telephones convert sound into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiver. Telephones became popular at that time because people were able to talk with their loved ones who lived far away and it cuts down the amount of time it took to send messages to each other. -
Motion Picture Photography
Motion picture, also called film or movie, is a series of still photographs on film, projected in rapid succession onto a screen by means of light. Motion picture photography is one of the oldest of modern imaging, technologies that remains current today. The motion picture is a remarkably effective medium in conveying drama and especially in the evocation of emotion. Since motion pictures were invented, audiences have loved how they tell stories. -
Printing Press for mass production (19th Century)
A printing press is a mechanical device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. The printing press is one of the world's most important inventions because it allows us to share large amounts of information quickly and in huge numbers, mainly in the form of books, newspapers, and pamphlets. It helped disseminate knowledge wider and faster than ever before and drastically changed the way society evolved. -
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New (Digital) Age
The New (Digital) Age, also known as the Information Age, is a period that began in the early 20th century, the internet has advanced and more devices and social networks were created. Things are getting more sufficient to meet the needs of the people. Everyday we use these devices to make our lives proficient. We use the internet not only to spread informations but also to gather some and make researches. It has also made a huge difference in our society specially in the means of communication. -
Commercial Motion Picture
Edison was one of many inventors in the United States and Europe who were working on motion pictures and should be credited as the first to introduce a commercial system. -
Motion Picture with sounds or Sound Films
A sound film is a motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a silent film. he primary steps in the commercialization of sound cinema were taken in the mid- to late 1920s. At first, the sound films which included synchronized dialogue, known as "talking pictures", or "talkies", were exclusively shorts. A film is considered as an art form which combines visual and auditory communicative mechanisms to channel messages to receivers. -
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ELECTRONIC AGE
The electronic age began when electronic equipment, including computers came into use. The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the development of transistor radio, circuits and the early computers. In this age or time, long distance communication became more efficient and easier. -
Television
Television is a system for transmitting visual images and sound that are reproduced on screens, chiefly used to broadcast programs for entertainment, information, and education. Television teaches us about countries and cultures. Televisions have been very useful and important in our daily lives since it was invented, other than newspapers, it gives us knowledge about certain things, about history, and about things that we should all be aware of in our nation and surroundings. -
Large Economic Computers - EDSAC
EDSAC was designed specifically to form part of the Mathematical Laboratory's support service for calculation. The first scientific paper to be published using a computer for calculations was by Ronald Fisher. EDSAC was modest in terms of modern-day computers. Instructions were executed at a rate of approximately 650 per second. -
Large Economic Computers - UNIVAC 1
On June 14, 1951, the U.S. Census Bureau dedicates UNIVAC (Universal Automatic Computer), the world’s first commercially produced electronic digital computer. The UNIVAC I was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for robot business application produced in the United States. These giant computers, which used thousands of vacuum tubes for computation, were the forerunners of today’s digital computers. -
Transistor Radio
A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following the invention of the transistor, the first commercial transistor radio was released in 1954. The small size of the transistor radio coupled with its durability and long battery life made the device the first portable radio that influenced modern culture and the development of smaller, faster electronic devices. -
Mainframe Computer - IBM 704
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. In banking, finance, health care, insurance, public utilities, government, and a host of other public and private enterprises, the mainframe computer continues to form the foundation of modern business. -
Personal Computers - Hewlett Packard 9100A
The Hewlett-Packard 9100A (hp 9100A) is an early programmable calculator or should I say computer, first appeared in 1968. HP called it a desktop calculator because, as Bill Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer, it would have been rejected by our customers' computer gurus because it didn't look like an IBM. We therefore decided to call it a calculator, and all such nonsense disappeared. -
Personal Computer - Apple 1
The Apple Computer 1, originally released as the Apple Computer, is a desktop computer released by the Apple Computer Company in 1976. The Apple-1 was unlike any computer sold today. It was basically a circuit board made from a MOS Technology 6502 1MHz processor, 8KB RAM, 40x24-pixel graphics and a built-in video terminal. Purchasers would still need to buy components. It could be used for developing programs, playing games or running the BASIC operating system. -
Web Browsers - Mosaic
NCSA Mosaic is one of the first web browsers. It was instrumental in popularizing the World Wide Web and the general Internet by integrating multimedia such as text and graphics that spurred a revolution in business, education, and entertainment that has had a trillion-dollar impact on the global economy. -
