Media Timeline / Categories

Early Media Prehistoric – Example cave paintings (35,000 BC) Oral Tradition – Example Native Stories Scribal Culture – Ancient Egypt 3,000 BC (Hieroglyphics, Papyrus) Paper – China 200 BC Biblical Scribes 500-200 BC

Print Media 1440 Printing Press – Print and Publication (Bible… then others) Journalism… books, newspapers, etc 1814 -1843 photography Advertising Comics

Electrical Media Telegraphy – Communication with coded signals (1800’s) Telephony – Sounds between widely connected points (1870’s telephone) Sound recording

Mass Media Radio - 1905 TV - 1950 Film - 1891

Digital Computing Computing 1980’s Email 1990’s Internet 1995

Personal Portable Media Beginning in 2004… Often driven by satellite devices Ipods, cell phones, text messages, Black Berry, GPS

Multi Media is fast paced and changing 1988 – Electric typewriters are a LUXURY 1992 – Most people typed Computers started to be used, but ran on DOS platform 1994 – Windows just introduced 1996 – Internet available for personal use Computer may cost up to $2000 with a 1 GIG hard drive and 8 MB of RAM 1997- Cell phones large and very expensive.

1998 – GPS used only in theory 2000 - Digital Cameras large with floppy disk drives. Poor quality 2000 – CD Discmans 2004 – Cell Phones (not that popular still…) 2008 – Ipods (for music), digital cameras, USB drives …..Social Media… Facebook, Blogs, Twitter Ipads…. More every day