PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE (BEFORE 1700S) PAPYRUS IN EGYPT (2500 BC) It can be refer to a document written on sheets of such material, joined together side by side and rolled up into a scroll, an early form of a book. It was used for sending messages, writing, keeping records, studying, and schooling. It is very durable, light, and easy to carry. The ancient Egyptians invented it. Papyrus was invented along the Nile river, for the material substance used to make papyrus grew there. INDUSTRIAL AGE (1700S- 1930S) TELEPHONE (1876) It is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. Alexander Graham Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the invention of the telephone in 1876. How did the first phone call work? Alexander Graham Bell’s big breakthrough came on March 10, 1876 when he used what he called a “liquid transmitter”, shouting to his assistant, Thomas Watson heard the messages on the receiver in another room and rushed through to Bell, who had just make the first phone call. PUNCH CARD It is a piece of stiff paper that can be used to contain digital data represented by the presence or absence of holes in predefined positions. Many early digital computers used punched cards, often prepared using keypunch machines, as the primary medium for input of both computer programs and data. Though punched cards are now obsolete as a storage medium, as of 2012, some voting machines still use punched cards to record votes. Herman Hollerith and Semyon Korsakov are the inventors of punch cards. Punch Card Punch Card Machine ELECTRONIC AGE (1930S- 1980S) MAINFRAME COMPUTERS (1960) They are computers used primarily by large organizations for critical applications: bulk data processing, such as census, industry and consumer statistics, enterprise resource planning: and transaction processing. They larger and have more processing power than some other classes of computers. Gene Amdahl, a trailblazer in the design of IBM’s mainframe computers, which became the central nervous system for businesses large and small throughout the world. INFORMATION AGE (1900S- 2000S) PORTABLE COMPUTERS-LAPTOPS (1980) It is a computer designed to be easily moved from one place to another and included a display and keyboard. The first portable computer was created in April 1981 by a company called Osborne, led by a journalist turned entrepreneur named Adam Osborne. The first commercially sold portable was the 50 pound IBM 5100, introduced 1975. IBM 5100 NETBOOKS (2008) Netbook is a generic name given to a category of small, lightweight, legacy-free, and inexpensive laptop computers that were introduced in 2007. The word Netbook was introduced by Psion in 1999 and introduced again by Intel in 2008. Though it is small, light, low-power notebook computer with less processing power than a full- sized laptop but is still suitable for word processing, running a Web browser and connecting wirelessly to the Internet. Netbooks began when Asus released the first Asus Eee PC in 2007. ASUS EEE PC TABLETS (1993) Tablet computer, commonly shortened to tablet, is a mobile device typically with a mobile operating system and touchscreen display processing circuitry, and a rechargeable battery in a single, thin and flat package. Tablets being computers do what other personal computers do, but lack some input/output abilities that others have. Microsoft’s first Tablet computer arrived in 2000. Here’s Microsoft’s first attempt at a tablet, a prototype that Bill Gates introduce in 2000. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING