PRE-INDUSTRIAL signifies the period
before writing and recording. Cave paintings
are made since the Upper Paleolithic, 40,000
years ago; found in Europe, Africa,
Australia, and Southeast Asia. The most
common drawings were animals being
hunted, animals that they use in farming and
agriculture, ceremonies and celebrations,
and other events.
Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC)
Papyrus texts offer scholars new literary
sources as well as documents, such as letters
and government records, which give much
insight into life in ancient Egypt.
Mesopotamia clay tablets (2400 BC)
In the Ancient Near East, clay tablets were
used as a writing medium, especially for
writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze
Age and well into the Iron Age. Writing is
not the same as today. These tablets include
transactions.
Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC)
Acta Diurna (The Daily Public Records);
sort of a daily or government gazette; this is
where people in Rome put news about the
government which was released to both
Romans and non-Roman citizens
Dibao in China (2nd Century)
Dibao, literally "reports from the [official]
residences", were a type of publications
issued by central and local governments in
imperial China. While closest in form and
function to gazettes in the Western world,
they have also been called "palace reports"
or "imperial bulletins".
Codex in 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 folding books are the
products of professional scribes working
under the patronage of deities such as the
Tonsured Maize God and the Howler
Monkey Gods.
Printing press using wood blocks (220
AD)
This is a technique wherein you use wood
blocks to print images, texts, and patterns
that is used widely throughout East Asia,
and originated in China.
INDUSTRIAL AGE (1700s-1980s)
Printing press for mass production (19th
century)
People used the power of steam, developed
machine tools, established iron production,
and the manufacturing of various products
including books through printing press)
Newspaper - The London Gazette (1640)
The Gazette is the heart of British public for
over 350 years; It is the oldest private
newspaper that is still being printed for the
public
Typewriter (1800)
Typewriter is a mechanical or
electromechanical machine for writing
characters similar to those produced by
printer's movable type. A typewriter
operates by means of keys that strike a
ribbon to transmit ink or carbon impressions
onto paper
Telephone (1876)
On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell,
scientist, inventor and innovator, received
the first patent for an “apparatus for
transmitting vocal or other sounds
telegraphically,” a device he called the
telephone.
Motion picture photography/projection
(1890)
Motion picture, also called film or movie,
series of still photographs on film, projected
in rapid succession onto a screen by means
of light. Because of the optical phenomenon
known as persistence of vision, this gives
the illusion of actual, smooth, and
continuous movement.
Commercial motion pictures (1913)
The Kinetoscope is an early motion
picture exhibition device. The Kinetoscope
was designed for films to be viewed by one
individual at a time through
a peephole viewer window at the top of the
device.
Telegraph (1830s - 1840s)
Telegraphy requires that the method used for
encoding the message be known to both
sender and receiver. Messages sent through
telegraph uses Morse Code;
Electronic Age (1930s - 1980s)
Transistor Radio
Invention of the transistor ushered in the
electronic age. People harnessed the power
of transistors that led to the transistor radio,
electronic circuits, and early computers. In
this age, long distance communication
became more efficient.
Telivison(1941)
Professor Kenjiro Takayanagi started his
research program in television at
Hamamatsu Technical College (now
Shizuoka University) in 1924. He
transmitted an image of the Japanese
character イ(i) on a cathode-ray tube on 25
December 1926 and broadcast video over an
electronic television system in 1935. His
work, patents, articles, and teaching helped
lay the foundation for the rise of Japanese
television and related industries to global
leadership.
Large electronic computers
Colossus - the first large-scale electronic
computer
EDSAC (1949) - Electronic Delay Storage
Automatic Calculator; was an early British
computer
UNIVAC 1 (1951) - Universal Automatic
Computer I was the first general purpose
electronic digital computer design for
business application produced in the United
States
Personal Computers
Hewlett Packard (HP) 9100A (1968) -
early programmable calculator/computer
that was called a desktop calculator
Apple 1 (1976) - Apple Computer 1 is a
desktop computer released by Apple
Computer Company (Apple Inc.); this is
Apple’s first product;
Information Age (1900s- 2000s)
Web Browsers
Mosaic (1993) - NSCA Mosaic one of the Video
world’s first browser; first used images in
world browser history Youtube (2005)

Internet Explorer (1995) - is developed by Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality

Microsoft; commonly known as MSIE or IE;
was once the most widely used browser
attaining the peak of about 95% usage share
in 2003
Blogs
Augmented reality (AR) adds digital
elements to a live view often by using the
camera on a smartphone. Virtual
reality (VR) implies a complete immersion
experience that shuts out the physical world.

Blogspot (1999) - now known as Video Chats

Blogger.com Skype (2003)
LiveJournal (1999) - Russian social Search Engines
networking service where you can write,
blog, and add diary entries Google (1996)

Wordpress (2003) - is a blogging site with Portable Computers

free-use and different plug-ins a blogger can
Laptops (1980)
use
Smart Phones
Social Networks
Wearable Technology
Friendster (2002)
Multiply (2003) Cloud and Big Data

Facebook (2004) One of the most

controversial websites in
history, Facebook was launched in February
2004 by Mark Zuckerberg.

Micro blogs
Twitter (2006) Twitter was born as an
online social networking service that enables
users to send and read short messages called
"tweets". Twitter started in 2006 when the
podcasting company Odeo realized they
needed to reinvent themselves and began
brainstorming new creative ideas.