The
Evolution of mass media
Timeline
Prehistoric Age Before 1700s III. ACTA DIURNA (130 BC)
Acta Diurna (Latin: Daily Acts,
I. CAVE PAINTINGS (35,000 BC)
Cave Art (or Paleolithic Art) is a broad term for the
earliest known art-making in human history. This
movement is perhaps best-known today for the
paintings found on the walls of many prehistoric
caves, rich in depictions of animals, human figures,
and forms that are a combination of man and beast.
II. CLAY TABLETS (2,400 BC)
Developed in Ancient Mesopotamia, clay
tablets were used for over 3,000 years. Scribes
used a reed stylus to impress characters in
moist clay. The tablets were usually dried in
the sun or sometimes fired in kilns.
Documents were often archived in libraries
where they could survive for millennia.
I. NEWSPAPER (1640)
1700s-1930
The London Gazette is one of the official
II. MOTION PICTURE WITH SOUND (1926)
journals of record or government gazettes
of the Government of the United
Kingdom, and the most important among
such official journals in the United
Kingdom, in which certain statutory
notices are required to be published
..
Electronic Age 1930s-1980s
I. TRANSISTOR RADIO
II. TELEVISION (1941)
A Transistor radio is a radio receiver which uses
transistors to amplify the sound. Transistor
radios can be cheap and small and some use
very little electric power. Some can amplify the
weak radio waves that are usually not picked
up by weaker vacuum tube radios.
III. LARGE ELECTRONIC
COMPUTERS (1941-1951)
ENIAC, in full Electronic Numerical Integrator
and Computer, the first programmable general-
purpose electronic digital computer, built
during World War II by the United States.
I. MOSAIC (1993) 1900s-Present
Mosaic was developed at the National Center
for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) at
the University of Illinois at Urbana–
Champaign beginning in late 1992. NCSA
released it in 1993, and officially
discontinued development and support on
January 7, 1997.
III.GOOGLE(1996)
Google is a search engine that started
development in 1996 by Sergey Brin and
Larry Page as a research project at
Stanford University to find files on the
Internet. Larry and Sergey later decided
the name of their search engine needed to
change and chose Google, which is
inspired from the term googol.
V.YOUTUBE
(2005)
YouTube was founded on Valentine's
Day in 2005. It was the brainchild of
Chad Hurley, Steve Chen, and Jawed
Karim, who were all former employees
of Paypal. The platform, like so many
others in Silicon Valley, began as an
angel-funded enterprise with
makeshift offices in a garage..
VII. SMART PHONES
A smartphone is a cellular telephone with
an integrated computer and other features
not originally associated with telephones
such as an operating system, web
browsing, and the ability to run software
applications.
sometimes translated as Daily Public
Records or poetically as Daily Gazette)
were daily Roman official notices, a sort
of daily gazette. They were carved on
stone or metal and presented in
message boards in public places such as
the Forum of Rome. They also were
called simply Acta.
IV. CODEX (5th Century)
Maya codices (singular codex) are folding
books written by the pre-Columbian Maya
civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script on
Mesoamerican bark paper. The folding
books are the products of professional
scribes working under the patronage of
deities such as the Tonsured Maize God
and the Howler Monkey Gods.
Industrial Age
A motion picture with sound or a sound film is a
motion picture with synchronized sound, or sound
technologically coupled to image, as opposed to a
silent film. The first known public exhibition of
projected sound films took place in Paris in 1900,
but decades passed before sound motion pictures
became commercially practical.
In 1941, the United States implemented
525-line television. Electrical engineer
Benjamin Adler played a prominent role in
the development of television. The world's
first 625-line television standard was
designed in the Soviet Union in 1944 and
became a national standard in 1946.
IV. PERSONAL COMPUTERS (1968)
.The Hewlett-Packard 9100A (hp 9100A) is
an early programmable calculator (or
computer), first appearing in 1968. HP called
it a desktop calculator because, as Bill
Hewlett said, "If we had called it a computer,
it would have been rejected by our
customers' computer gurus because it didn't
look like an IBM.
New (Information) Age
II. INTERNET EXPLORER
(1995)
Internet Explorer (IE) is a World Wide
Web browser that comes bundled with
the Microsoft Windows operating
system (OS). The browser was
deprecated in Windows 10 in favor of
Microsoft's new Edge Browser. It
remains a part of the operating system
even though it is no longer the default
browser.
IV. FACEBOOK
(2004)
Facebook is a website which allows users, who
sign-up for free profiles, to connect with
friends, work colleagues or people they don't
know, online. It allows users to share pictures,
music, videos, and articles, as well as their own
thoughts and opinions with however many
people they like..
VI. TWITTER (2006)
Twitter is a free social networking site
where users broadcast short posts known
as tweets. These tweets can contain text,
videos, photos or links. To access Twitter,
users need an internet connection or smart
phone to use the app or website,
Twitter.com.