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Period: 35,000 BCE to 14,000 BCE
Pre-Industrial Age
The age when fire was discovered, papers were derived from plants, and people forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper, and iron. -
3500 BCE
Cave Paintings
Cave paintings also known as " parietal art ", are paintings engraved on cave walls or ceilings. -
3200 BCE
Hieroglyphics
The writing system ancient Egyptians used for inscriptions mostly on walls of temples and tombs, as well as statues, coffins, and sarcophagi. These were created for eternity, either for the gods or for the afterlife. -
2900 BCE
Papyrus
It was the first writing material. The material was made from pith, a 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. -
2400 BCE
Clay Tablets
It was used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform. were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age -
230 BCE
Acta Diurna
Meaning in Latin: Daily Acts sometimes translated as Daily Public Records) were daily Roman official notices, a sort of daily gazette. They were carved on stone or metal and presented on message boards in public places like the Forum of Rome. -
220
Dibao
It was a type of publications 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. -
221
Personal Insight to Pre-Industrial Age
The evolution of media has come a long way, from carving on the walls or ceilings of the caves to writing on papers and blocks. It amazes me how humans can also develop and invent new ways of communication. Overall, media changes over time but its purpose remains the same, and that is to pave the way for communication among people. -
Period: 1400 to
Industrial Age
The discovery of power steam, development of machine tools, established iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press) -
1440
Printing Press
The industrial printing press was one of the most influential inventions of the Age of Revolution. A printing press is a device for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby transferring the ink. -
Newspaper
A printed publication (usually issued daily or weekly) consisting of folded unstapled sheets containing news, feature articles, advertisements, and correspondence. -
Computer
The first computer that resembled the modern machines we see today was invented by Charles Babbage between 1833 and 1871. He developed a device, the analytical engine, and worked on it for nearly 40 years. It was a mechanical computer that was powerful enough to perform simple calculations. -
Telegraph
It is a system for transmitting messages from a distance along a wire, especially one creating signals by making and breaking an electrical connection. -
Typewriter
It is a mechanical or electromechanical machine for writing characters similar to those produced by the printer's movable type. A typewriter operates by means of keys that strike a ribbon to transmit ink or carbon impressions onto paper. Typically, a single character is printed on each keypress. The machine prints characters by making ink impressions of type elements similar to the sorts used in movable type letterpress printing -
Telephone
A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. -
Motion Picture Photography/Projection
Motion-picture technology is the means for the production and showing of motion pictures. It includes not only the motion-picture camera and projector but also such technologies as those involved in recording sound, editing both picture and sound, creating special effects, and producing animation. -
Radio
Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi (pictured at right) first developed the idea of a radio, or wireless telegraph, in the 1890s. It is a form of mass media and sound communication by radio waves, usually through the transmission of music, news, and other types of programs from single broadcast stations to multitudes of individual listeners equipped with radio receivers. -
Personal Insights to Industrial Age
People learned to utilize machines and develop more ways to deliver information and maintain communication. The media evolved from utilizing natural resources to using machines. In general, society's economy bloomed at this age as it replaced hand tools with power-driven machines accelerating work in human labor. Entertainment also prospered in this age, people invented motion picture as a form of entertainment, where they watch films in cinemas -
Period: to
Electronic Age
People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this age, long distance communication became more efficient. -
Television
Television (TV) is a telecommunication medium used for transmitting moving images in monochrome (black and white), or in color, and in two or three dimensions and sound. It is a mass medium for entertainment, education, news, politics, gossip, and advertising. By 1953, RCA devised the first complete electronic color TV system. -
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, with billions manufactured during the 1960s and 1970s. Their pocket size sparked a change in popular music listening habits, allowing people to listen to music anywhere they went. -
Personal Insights to Electronics Age
The electronics age improved the industrial age's previous communication media. One of the examples is motion pictures to televisions, with television in comes from different formats and styles. Television is much more convenient because you no longer have to use films. -
Period: to
New Age or Information Age
The Internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network. People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound, and data are digitalized. -
Portable computers (Laptop)
The first true laptop to make it to market, the Osborne 1, hit shelves in April 1981. Created by Adam Osborne, the computer featured a 12.7-centimeter (5-inch) screen and weighed 11.1 kilograms (24.5 pounds). However, the machine still required an AC outlet for power. -
Internet
ARPANET and the Defense Data Network officially changed to the TCP/IP standard on January 1, 1983, hence the birth of the Internet. It is a vast interconnected network of computers that allows information exchange and communication across the world. -
Smartphones
In 1992, IBM announced the very first smartphone. It released the Simon Personal Communicator (SPC) for purchase in 1994. The SPC was the first touchscreen phone. Additionally, it could send and receive both emails and faxes. -
Personal Insights to The New Age or Information Age
This age made media and technologies much more convenient to people, it enables them to be more creative and achieve maximum effectiveness. It made people's lives much easier, such as searching google for information and getting various sources.To conclude everything stated, the evolution of media helped people communicate and gain information throughout the years. The ways of communication are always changing but their purpose remains the same