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1700 BCE
PRE INDUSTRIAL AGE
People discovered fire,develop paper from plants, and forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron and example of this form of media is:
•Cave Paintings (35,000 BC)
•Papyrus in Egypt (2500BC)
•Clay Tablets in Mesopotamia (2400BC)
•Acta Diurna in Rome (130BC)
•Codex in Mayan Region (5th Century)
•Dibao in China (2nd Century)
•Printing Press using wood blocks (220AD) -
INDUSTRIAL AGE
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.
Example Forms of Media:
•Motion Picture with Sound (1926)
•Commercial Motion Pictures (1913)
•Printing Press for Mass Production (1900)
•Typewriter (1800) -
ELECTRONIC AGE
What was the first battery-powered calculator you ever had? If you're over forty,you might just remember it. That's likely because of the excitement over "pocket" calculators in the early 1970s:when, unlike today, having one was not the norm. For most of us, they were new, they were expensive, and, while we couldn't see it at the time,they marked the beginning of a new era in technology.
Example Forms of Media:
•Transistor Radio
•Television (1941)
•Large Electronic Computers
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INFORMATION AGE
The Information Age formed by capitalizing on computer microminiaturization advances. This evolution of technology in daily life and social organization has led to the fact that the modernization of information and communication processes has become the driving force of social evolution.
Example Forms of Media:
•Blogs (1999)
•Internet explorer (1995)
•Web browsers: Mosaic (1993)
•Friendster (2002)
•Multiply (2003)
•Facebook (2004)
•Instagram
•Youtube (2005)
•Twitter (2006)
• Tumblr(2007)
