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35,000 BCE
Cave Paintings
In prehistoric art, the term “cave paintings” encompasses any parietal art which involves the application of colour pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters. A monochrome cave paintings is a picture made with only one colour (usually black)-see. -
2500 BCE
Papyrus In Egypt
First papyrus was only used in Egypt, but by about 1000 BC people all over West Asia began buying papyrus from Egypt and using it, since it was much more convenient than clay tablets (less breakable, and not as heavy!). People made papyrus in small sheets and then glued the sheets together to make big pieces. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets In Mesopotamia
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets (Akkadian ṭuppu) were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters were imprinted on a wet clay tablet with a stylus often made of reed (reed pen). -
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. Prior to the invention of woodblock printing, seals and stamps were used for making impressions. -
130 BCE
Acta Diurna in Rome
Acta Diurna were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette. They were carved on stone or metal and presented in message boards in public places like the Forum of Rome. They were also called simply Acta. The first form of Acta appeared around 131 BC during the Roman Republic. -
Daguerreotype
Introduced in 1839 in France by Louis J. M. Daguerre, the first photographic print process was the daguerreotype. It was made on a silver-coated copper plate which was, for all practical purposes, a mirror. The sensitizing agent was iodine, the developing agent was mercury. Once exposed in a camera and developed, the plate became a photograph on a mirror. Daguerreotypes were rarely used after 1860. -
Ambrotype
Ambrotypes are negative photos on glass plates. When black paper is placed behind the glass, the image appears to be a positive print. The sensitizing agent was silver nitrate, the developing agent was pyrogallic acid. Invented in England by Frederick Scott, the ambrotype was introduced in America in 1854 and last made in 1865. -
Tintype
The tintype was made the same way as the ambrotype, except a thin iron plate coated with Japan varnish substituted for the glass plate. Hamilton Smith, the inventor of the tintype, introduced the process in 1856. Its lower cost and easier to use process made it quickly popular, and it continued in use until about 1930. -
Typewriters
Information has been recorded by stylus, pen, brush and pencil, written to whatever media were most available and appropriate. Media included stone, shell, clay, metal, papyrus, cloth, paper. Until recently, good penmanship was considered an important indicator of literacy. The typewriter initiated changes in that perception. -
Sound storage
When Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877, he created the first technology for recording and reproducing sounds as perceived by people. Edison used a vibrating stylus connected to a sound collecting horn to record sound vibrations as a vertical pattern of waves on the surface of a rotating tinfoil cylinder. The tinfoil was soon replaced by wax, and the cylinders, which were hard to produce economically, evolved into the familiar, and less expensive, phonograph disks (1877) -
TRANSISTOR
The transistors ushered in electronic age and it led to the creation of other media tool -
TELEVISION
The invention of the television was the work of many individuals in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Individuals and corporations competed in various parts of the world to deliver a device that superseded previous technology. Many were compelled capitalize on the invention and make profit, while some wanted to change the world through visual and audio communication technology. -
ENIGMA
The Enigma machine is a piece of spook hardware invented by a German and used by Britain's codebreakers as a way of deciphering German signals traffic during World War Two. -
TRANSISTOR RADIO
A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. Following their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device in history -
EDSAC (Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator)
EDSAC is an early British computer considered to be the first stored program electronic computer. -
Osborne 1
It is considered as the first true mobile computer by most historians. Adam Osborne founded Osborne Computer and formed the Osborne 1 in 1981. -
First Laptop Computer
Manny Fernandez, who started Gavilian Computer, promoted his machines as the first "laptop" computers in May 1983. Many historians consider the gavilian as the first fully functional laptop computer. -
Digital Camera
By the late 1980s, the technology required to produce truly commercial digital cameras existed. The first true portable digital camera that recorded images as a computerized file was likely the Fuji DS-1P of 1988, which recorded to a 2 MB SRAM memory card that used a battery to keep the data in memory. This camera was never marketed to the public. -
Transatlantic Telephone
Transatlantic Telephone
The first Transatlantic Telephone cable went into operation. -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (abbreviated WWW or the Web) is an information space where documents and other web resources are identified by Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), interlinked by hypertext links, and can be accessed via the Internet. English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989.
