The Evolution of Traditional to New Media

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Evolution of Media

Pre- Industrial 

Pre- Industrial or the Stone Age, happened before 1700s. People discovered fire and
developed paper from plants and forged weapons and tools with stone, 
bronze copper and iron. 
People used cave paintings (35,000 BC), clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2,400 BC)
and Papyrus (2,500 BC) to store information. They used Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC),
Dibao in China (2nd Century),  Codex in Mayan Region (5th Century) and 
Printing Press using wood (220 AD) to broadcast information.

cave painting
credits https://www.archaeology.org
clay tablets credits
https://www.metmuseum.org
Papyrus
credits https://www.pinterest.dk

Industrial

This age happened back in the 1700s to 1930s. People used the power of steam, 
developed machine tools established iron production, and manufacturing
of various products. 
They used Printing press for mass production (19th century), telegram (1791-1830) and type writer (1800) to share information. Punched cards (CHM Revolution), Motion Picture 
Photography/Projection (1913), Motion Picture with sound (1926), are used to keep data.

printing press
credits https://en.wikipedia.org

telegram
credits http://www.oceanviolet.com
typewriter
credits http://www.vintagetypewritershoppe.com


Electronic 

Started in 1930s to 1980s, the invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic 
age, they harnessed the power of transistor that lead to the transistor radio,
electronic circuits, and because of this long distance communication became more efficient.
 Transition radio, television (1941), large electronic computers EDSAC (1949) and
UNIVAC (1951), main frame computers IBM 704 (1960), personal computers-
Hewlett-Packard 91004 (1968), Apple 1(1976) and OHP, LCD  projector were 
invented to spread and keep information.

transistor radio
credits https://waynesradios.com
television
credits https://app.nimia.com
EDSAC
credits https://commons.wikimedia.org

Information

Information age took place in the 1900s to 2000s. In this age the internet paved way for 
faster communication and the creation of the social network. People advanced the use of micro electronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable 
technology, voice image, sound and data. 
The longer we have technology the more we invent. Mosaic (1993), Portable computers/
laptop (1980), tablets (1993), Internat explorer (1995), Google (1996), 
Yahoo messenger (1998), Blogspot (1999), Live journal (1999), 
Wordpress (2008), Friendster (2002), multiply (2003), Facebook (2004),
YouTube (2005), Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007), Skype (2003), 
Google Hangouts (2013), Smart phones, wearable technology, virtual reality,
Google cloud platform.

Facebook
credits https://commons.wikimedia.org
Tumblr
credits http://acourtofthornsandroses.wikia.com
Skype
credits https://9to5google.com


(Davis, 2017, blogger.com)

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