This is a timeline about the evolution of media starting from the Pre- industrial age up to the present, the New/ Information age.

1. EVOLUTION
OF
MEDIA
(Timeline)

2. Pre-Industrial
Age
(Before 1700)
Industrial Age
(1700s – 1930s)
Electronic Age
(1930s – 1980s)
New/Information
Age
(1900s – 2000s)

3. 38,000 BCE 2500 BCE
Cave Paintings Papyrus in Egypt
PRE-
INDUSTRIAL
AGE
• Also know as “pariental art”
• Painted drawings on cave
walls and ceiling first used
in Eurasia
• Theorized as ways of
communicating
• Theorized also as for
religious or ceremonial
purposes
• From “pith” of Papyrus plant
• Similar to thick papers
• First used in Ancient Eypt
• Earliest archaeological
evidence was excavated in
2012-2013 at Wadi al-Jarf
(ancient Egyptian Harbor)

4. 2400 BCE 131 BCE
Clay Tablets in
Mesopotamia
• Writing medium, especial
for writing in cuneiform
during Bronze and Iron Age
• Invented probably by the
Sumerians
• First used in Roman
Republic
• Stated results of legal
proceedings and outcomes
of trials as well as Public
and Military notices
Acta Diurna
in Rome

5. 2nd Century 5th Century
Dibao in China Maya Codices
• Ancient Chinese Gazette
• Also called “Palace Reports”
and “Imperial Bulletin”
• Maybe first used during
early as the Han Dynasty or
as late as the Tang Dynasty
• Folding books by the Pre-
Columbian Maya Civilization
in Maya hieroglyphic script
in Mesoamerican bark cloth
• More durable and better
writing surface than Papyrus

6. 7th Century
Wood Blocks as
Printing Press
• Originated in China during
Tang Dynasty
• Used in printing text,
images, or patterns in those
times
INDUSTRIAL
AGE
1440
Printing Press for
Mass Production
• Iron presses inspired by
earlier attempts by Swiss
typefounder Wilhlm Hass,
Charles Stanhope built iron
presses that can print
around 200 impressions per
hour.

7. 1740
Newspaper
(London Gazette)
• One of the official journals
of record of the British
Government
• London Gazette- oldest
surviving English
newspaper
• First published as “Oxford
Gazette”
1874
Typewriter
• Mechanical and electrome-
chanical machine for
writing characters similar to
those produced by printer’s
movable type
• Became common in offices
during mid-1880s

8. 1876
Telephone
1890
Kinetoscope
• A telecommunication
device
• Alexander Graham Bell
was the first one to be
granted a United States
patent for a device that
produced clearly intelligible
replication of the human
voice.
• Allows viewers to watch
brief movie through a small
peephole
• Developed by Thomas
Edison from his other
invention-phonograph
• Still survived in the form of
peep shows

9. 19th Century
Kinetophone
Late 19th Century
Telegraph
• Provide music to
accompany the image of the
kinetoscope
• System of communication
employing electronical
apparatus to transmit and
receive signals
• Invented in USA by Samuel
F.B. Morse and in Britain
by Sir Charles Weatstone
with Sir William F. Cooke.

10. Late 19th Century
Punch Card
1947
Transistor Radio
• Stiff paper used to
contain digital
information
• Card for computing data
• Have patterns of holes
punched in it
ELECTRONIC
AGE
• Small portable radio
receiver that uses
transistors in its
circuits

11. 1920
Television
1946
ENIAC
• Used for transmitting
moving images
• Primary medium
during 1950
• Electronic Numerical
Integrator and Computer
• One of the earliest
electronic general-
purpose computers made

12. 1950
Mainframe
Computers
1960
LCD Projector
• High-level computer
designed for most
intensive
computational tasks
• Displays video,
image, or computer
data

13. 1900s
Web Browsers
NEW
AGE
• web browser that
popularized the World
Wide Web and the
Internet
• was named for its
support of multiple
internet protocols
• (formerly Microsoft
Internet
Explorer and Windows
Internet Explorer,
commonly
abbreviated IE or MSI
E)
• included in
the Microsoft Windows
line of operating
systems, starting in
1995,

14. 2003
Blogs
2003
Social Networks
• blog-publishing
service that allows
multi-user blogs with
time-stamped entries
• Developed by Pyra
Labs
• a social structure
made up of a set
of social actors
(such as individuals
or organizations),
sets of dyadic ties,
and other social
interactions between
actors.

15. 2004
Microblogs
2004
Web Search
Engine
• a broadcast
medium that exists in
the form of blogging
• allow users to
exchange small
elements of content
such as short
sentences, individual
images, or video links
• software system that
is designed to search
for information on the
World Wide Web
• The information may
be a mix of web
pages, images, and
other types of files.

16. 2005
Video
20th Century
Portable
Computers
• Video-sharing Internet
venture
• Laptops, Netbooks,
Tablets
• computer that is
designed to be
moved from one
place to another and
includes a display
and keyboard

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