Evolution of Traditional Media and New Media timeline

35,000 BCE

Cave Paintings (35,000 BC)

Cave Painting (35,000BC)
 are drawings painted on
the ceilings and walls of
caves.
 communication purposes
 ceremonial or religious
purpose

2500 BCE

Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC)

Papyrus in Egypt (2500BC)
 the world's first paper
 the papyrus was limited to a standard
size running 47 cm in length at the
most (29-33 cm on the average), and
22 cm in width.
 papyrus roll (scroll)

2400 BCE

Clay Tablets (2400BC)

Clay Tablets (2400BC)
 used for accounting, literary,
administrative documents.
 Cuneiform
 written on wet clay with a sharpened
stick, or stylus.

220 BCE

Printing Press using wood blocks (220 AD)

Woodblock printing is a
technique for printing text, images
or patterns

130 BCE

Acta Diurma in Rome (130 BC)

Acta Diurma in Rome (130 BC)
 “Daily Acts” or “Daily Public
Records”
 First newspaper.
 carved on stone or metal and
presented in message boards in public
places and also the earliest and oldest newspaper in
the world

5 BCE

Codex in The Mayan (5th Century)

 folding books written

1640

Newspaper-The London Gazette (1640)

Newspaper-The London
Gazette (1640)
 is one of the official
journals of record of the
British government.

Period: 1700 to 1700

•Pre-Industrial Ages (Before 1700s)

•Peoples discovered fire, developed paper
from plants, and forged weapons and
tools with stone, bronze, copper and
iron.

Period: 1700 to 1930

INDUSTRIAL AGES (1700S-1930S)

• Peoples used the power of steam, developed machine
tools, established iron production, and the
manufacturing of various product (including books
through the printing press).

1800

Typewriter (1800)

Typewriter (1800)
 The first typewriter to be
commercially successful was
invented in 1868 by Americans
Christopher Latham Sholes,
Frank Haven Hall, Carlos
Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in
Milwaukee, Wisconsin,

1800

Punch Cards

Punch Cards  was first used for vital
statistics tabulation by the
New York City Board of
Health and several states..

1844

Telegraph

Telegraph  revolutionized long-
distance communication.  It worked by transmitting
electrical signals over a
wire laid between stations.

1876

Telephone (1876)

Telephone (1876)
 Alexander Graham Bell’s
Large Box Telephone,
1876.
 apparatus for
transmitting vocal or
other sounds
telegraphically,

1890

Motion Pictures Photography/Projection (1890)

1900

Printing Press for mass production (19th Century)

Printing Press for mass
production (19th Century)
 is a device for applying
pressure to an inked
surface resting upon a
print medium (such as
paper or cloth), thereby
transferring the ink.

Period: 1900 to 2000

INFORMATION AGE (1900S – 2000S)

INFORMATION AGE (1900S – 2000S) • 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. We are
now living in the information age.

1913

Commercial Motion Pictures w/ sound (1913)

Commercial Motion
Pictures w/ sound
(1913)
 A sound film is a
motion picture with
synchronized sound

Period: 1930 to 1980

ELECTRONIC AGE (1930S – 1980S)

ELECTRONIC AGE (1930S – 1980S) • The invention of the transistor ushered in the
electronic age. People harnessed the power of
transistor that led to the transistor radio, electronic
circuits, and the early computers. In this , long distance
communication become more efficient.

1941

Television (1941)

Television (1941)
 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.