TRINA MARIE R.

YSON
BIT ADT 1-A

Trace history and emergence of the information age from 3000 BC to the first century.

3000 BC

THE EARLIEST KNOWN

HIEROGLYPHIC
The earliest known hieroglyphic
inscriptions are the Narmer Palette, dating
to c.3200 BC, and several recent
discoveries that may be slightly older,
though these glyphs were based on a
much older artistic rather than written
tradition. The hieroglyphic script was
logographic with phonetic adjuncts that
included an effective alphabet.

INSCRIBED IN CLAY: FROM 3100 BC

In the river plains of Mesopotamia,

where writing first develops, clay is an easily
available commodity. It becomes the writing
material of the temple scribes. Their
implement is a piece of reed cut to form a
rectangular end. These two ingredients define
the first script. Characters are formed from the
wedge-shaped marks which a corner of the
reed makes when pressed into the damp clay
- a style of writing known as cuneiform.

Clay tablets, dried hard in the sun, make an almost indestructible temple archive. But
they are not very convenient for sending messages.

Smooth with a piece of ivory or a shell.

Up to twenty of the rectangles can be pasted together at their short ends, to be rolled up
and sold in the form of a scroll. Almost every 'book' in the ancient civilizations of Egypt,
Greece and Rome (spanning a period of more than 3500 years) is a papyrus scroll of
this type. The material has been one of the most important elements in the history
of writing.
TRINA MARIE R. YSON
BIT ADT 1-A

1st CENTURY
A CODEX, is a book constructed of a number of
sheets of paper, vellum, papyrus, or similar
materials. The term is now usually only used
of manuscript books, with hand-written
contents,[1] but describes the format that is now
near-universal for printed books in the Western
world. The book is usually bound by stacking the
pages and fixing one edge to a spine, which may
just be thicker paper (paperback or softback), or
with stiff boards, called a hardback, or in
elaborate historical examples a treasure binding

A SCROLL is usually divided up

into pages, which are sometimes
separate sheets of papyrus or
parchment glued together at the
edges, or may be marked divisions
of a continuous roll of writing
material.