1. PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE (BEFORE 1700s)

2. PAPYRUS IN EGYPT (2500 BC)

3. The first papyrus was only used and seen in Egypt, but by about 1000 BC people all over the West Asia began buying papyrus from Egypt and began using it, since it was much more convenient and appropriate to use than clay tablets (less breakable, and not that heavy). People made papyrus in small sheets and then put them together glued the sheets together to make big pieces.

4. CAVE PAINTINGS (35,000 BC)

5. In prehistoric art, the term “cave paintings” covers any parietal art which involves the application of color pigments on the floors, walls or even in ceilings of ancient rock shelters. A monochrome cave painting is a portrait and a representation made with only one color which is usually black. For example, the monochrome images at Chauvet.

6. CLAY TABLETS IN MESOPOTAMIA (2400 BC)

7. In the Ancient Near East era, clay tablets or called Akkadian tuppu were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, a logo script that was used to write different languages, throughout the Bronze Age and into the Iron Age. Cuneiform characters and scripts were imprinted on a wet clay tablet using a stylus often made of reed pen.

8. ACTA DIURNA IN ROME (130 BC) Acta Diurna were everyday Roman official notices and news, a sort of daily newspaper. They were carved and written on stone and metal and viewed in message boards in public places for public viewing like the Forum of Rome. These were also called just Acta and the first forum appeared around 131 BC during the Roman Republic.

9. PRINTING PRESS USING WOOD BLOCKS (220 AD)

10. Woodblock printing is a technique used for printing text, images, pictures or patterns outlines shapes used widely throughout East Asia and originating in China in ancient times as a process of printing on textiles and materials and later on paper. Before the invention of woodblock printing, they were using seals and stamps for printing.

11. INDUSTRIAL AGE (1700s – 1930s)

12. TELEPHONE (1876)

13. TELEPHONE Alexander Graham Bell’s Large Box Telephone invented on 1876. On March 7, 1876, Alexander Graham Bell, a scientist, inventor and innovator, received the first patent for an “apparatus for transmitting vocal or other sounds telegraphically,” a device called telephone.

14. TYPEWRITER (1800)

15. The first typewriter to be commercially successful was invented in 1868 by Americans named: Christopher Latham Sholes, Frank Haven Hall, Carlos Glidden and Samuel W. Soule in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, although Sholes soon disowned the machine and refused to use.

16. NEWSPAPER – THE LONDON GAZETTE (1640)

17. The London Gazette is one of the official journals of record of the British government, and the most important among such official journals in the United Kingdom, in which certain statutory notices are required to be published. The London Gazette claims to be the oldest surviving English newspaper.

18. PRINTING PRESS FOR MASS PRODUCTION (19 TH CENTURY)

19. A printing press is a device used for applying pressure to an inked surface resting upon a print medium such as paper or cloth, thereby transferring the ink. The printing press was invented in the Holy Roman Empire by the German Johannes Gutenberg around 1440, based on existing screw presses.

20. MOTION PICTURES PHOTOGRAPHY/PROJECTION (1980)

21. The history of film technology traces the development and progress of film technology from the early development of “moving pictures” at the end of the 19th century to the present. Motion pictures were initially exhibited and showed as a fairground novelty or primary innovation.

22. TELEGRAPH Developed in the 1830s and 1840s by Samuel Morse (1791- 1872) and other inventors, the telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication. It worked by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations.

23. ELECTRONIC AGE (1930s – 1980s)

24. TRANSISTOR

25. A transistor radio is a small and portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry. During their development in 1954, made possible by the invention of the transistor in 1947, they became the most popular electronic communication device and medium in history, with billions manufactured during the years 1960 and 1970.

26. OVERHEAD PROJECTOR

27. An overhead projector is a variant of slide projector that is used to display images and pictures to a target audience. The name is often abbreviated to as OHP.

28. LCD PROJECTOR

29. An LCD projector is a type of video projector that is used for displaying video, images, or computer data on screen or any other flat surface. It is a modern equivalent of the slide projector or the overhead projector.

30. INFORMATION AGE (1900s – 2000s)

31. LIVE JOURNAL (1999) LiveJournal, stylized as livejournal, is a Russian social networking service where users can keep a blog, a journal or diary. American programmer named Brad Fitzpatrick started LiveJournal on April 15, 1999, as a way of keeping his high school friends updated on his activities and drills.

32. FRIENDSTER (2002) Back in the year 2020, Friendster was a social gaming site based in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. It has been originally a social networking service website. Before Friendster was redesigned, the social gaming site allowed users to contact other members, maintain those contacts, and share online content and media with those contacts. Users could share their videos, photos, messages and comments with other members or part of their friend list via profiles and networks. It is considered one of the original social media networks.

33. WORDPRESS (2003) WordPress (type in your internet browser address URL WordPress.org) is a free and opensource content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQI.. WordPress was released on May 27, 2003 by its founders, Matt Mullenweg, and Mike Little, as a fork b2/cafelog.

34. FACEBOOK (2004) During the year 2004, Facebook, Inc. is an American online social media and social networking service company based in Menlo Park, California. It’s a website was launched on February 4, 2004, by Mark Zuckerberg, along with fellow Harvard College students and roommates Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz and Chris Hughes. It is considered one of the Big Four technology companies along with Amazon, Apple and Google.

35. YOUTUBE (2005) YouTube was created by Paypal employees as a videosharing website where users could upload, share and view content. The Internet domain name “www.youtube.com” was activated on Monday, February 14, 2005, at 9:13 p.m. During the summer of 2006, YouTube was one of the fastest growing sites on the World Wide Web, hosting more than 65,000 new video uploads. The sites delivered an average of 100 million video viewers per day in July.

36. TWITTER (2006) Twitter is an American online news and social networking service on which users post and interacts with messages known as “tweets”. Twitter was created in March 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams and launched in July of that year.