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1. Drawings in Caves
38,000 BCE
Communication
began as drawing.
It is a painted
drawing on walls or
ceilings mainly of
prehistoric origin.
Cuneiform
characters were
imprinted on a wet
clay tablet with a
stylus often made of
reed (reed pen).
9. Telegraph
• 1770
• Telegraphy is the long-
distance transmission of
textual or symbolic (as
opposed to verbal or audio)
messages without the
physical exchange of an
object bearing the
message. Thus,
semaphore is a method of
telegraphy, whereas
pigeon post is not.
• Telegraphy requires that
the method used for
encoding the message be
known to both sender and
receiver.
• A press that had the ability
to conduct dialogue and
even argue with the
government.
• It was triggered by the
imposition of taxes on a
paper by the British empire,
so it could generate the
much- needed revenues to
finance its wars.
• The income of the printers
was severely affected by
this development, so they
openly denounce this
colonial policy of taxation.
10. Typewriter
• 1846
• A typewriter is a
mechanical or electro-
mechanical machine for
writing characters similar to
those produced by printer’s
movable type. A typewriter
operates by means of keys
that strike a ribbon to
transmit ink or carbon
impressions onto paper.
• Typically, a single
character is printed on
each key press. The
machine prints characters
by making ink impressions
of type elements similar to
the sorts used in movable
type letterpress printing.
11. Vitascope
• 1900
• Edison Vitascope was on
public debut in New York,
where it showed a film”
Rough Sea at Dover” by
Robert Paul. 9
• It was such a novelty and
large screen projection
enabled massive
audiences to watch and at
the same time starkly
different practice from the
newspaper that was Helsby
a single reader, and
perhaps, passed on to the
next individual who
expressed interest to read
the current news.
12. Television
➢ 1930
• Television was already
used in magazine called
the” Scientific American “.
• The first telecast of a
television program took
place transmitting from the
experimental studio of
General Electric in New
York.
➢ 1946
• A much-improved
technology from the
mechanical scanning
introduced earlier.
• A type of phased array
antenna, that is a
computer-controlled array
antenna in which the beam
of radio waves can be
electronically steered to
point in different directions
without moving the
antenna.
• By the 1939, President
Franklin Roosevelt became
the first president to appear
on the tube.
13. Transmitter
• 1946
• James Lindenberg, an
American engineer began
assembling transmitters in
Bolinao, Pangasinan but
he failed at not fully
successful to attempt to
establish a television
station.
14. Transistor Radio
• 1949
• The invention of the
transistor radio signaled
the
development of semi-
conductor devices,
considered
the foundation of modern
electronics, as it led to the
invention of integrated
circuits, a technology that
will
be critical in the
development of the
computer.
15. Packard
• 1969
• Packard Bell is a Dutch-
based computer
manufacturing
subsidiary of Acer. The
brand name originally
belonged to an American
radio manufacturer,
Packard Bell,
founded by Herbert “Herb”
A. Bell and Leon S.
Packard in 1933. Some
websites use 1926 as the
founding date when
Herbert Bell was an
executive with Jackson Bell
Company, Los Angeles,
California
16. Apple 1
• 1980
• Apple Computer 1, also
known later as the Apple I,
or Apple-1, is a desktop
computer released by the
Apple Computer Company
(now Apple Inc.) in 1976. It
was designed and hand-
built by Steve Wozniak.
Wozniak’s friend Steve
Jobs had the idea of selling
the computer.
17. Laptop
• 1986
• A laptop, often called a
notebook or “notebook
computer”, is a small,
portable personal
computer with a “clamshell”
form factor, an
alphanumeric keyboard on
the lower part of the
“clamshell” and a thin LCD
or LED computer screen on
the upper portion, which is
opened up to use the
computer. Laptops are
folded shut for
transportation, and thus are
suitable for mobile use.
18. Bulletin Board System
• 1993
• A computer running
software that allows uses to
connect and exchange
messages and information
using a terminal program.
• It was started to operate
this time using software
that ran on an IBM XT
Clone PC, with a modem
that ran on 1200 bpm
19. Mosaic Browser
• 1994
• Mosaic, is a discontinued
early web browser. It has
been credited with
popularizing the World
Wide Web. It was also a
client for earlier protocols
such as File Transfer
Protocol, Network News
Transfer Protocol, and
Gopher. The browser was
named for its support of
multiple internet protocols.
Its intuitive interface,
reliability, Windows port
and simple installation all
contributed to its popularity
within the web, as well as
on Microsoft operating
systems.
20. World Wide Web
• 1994
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee
invented the World Wide
Web and finally launched in
the Philippines.
• It is information system on
the Internet that
allows documents to be
connected to other
documents by hypertext
links, enabling the user to
search for information by
moving from one document
to another. • The
Philippines was formally
connected to the internet
using the PLDT network
center in Makati City.
21. First Smartphone
• 1999
• A refined version was
marketed to consumers in
1994 by BellSouth under
the name Simon Personal
Communicator. The Simon
was the first commercially
available device that could
be properly referred to as a
“smartphone”, although it
was not called that in 1994.