LESSON 2: The Evolution of Traditional to New Media

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1. People discovered fire. Developed paper from plants Forged weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron.

2. Cave Paintings In prehistoric art, the term "cave painting" encompasses any parietal art which involves the application of colour pigments on the walls, floors or ceilings of ancient rock shelters

3. Clay tablets in Mesopotamia were used as a writing medium, especially for writing in cuneiform, throughout the Bronze Age and well into the Iron Age. Cuneiform is a logo-syllabic script that was used to write several languages of the Ancient Near East.

4. Papyrus in Egypt refers 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.

5. Acta Diurna in Rome 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 like the Forum of Rome.

6. Dibao in China Dibao literally "reports from the [official] residences" were a type of publications issued by central and local governments in imperial China

7. Codex in the Mayan Region Maya codices (singular codex) are folding books stemming from the pre-Columbian Maya civilization, written in Maya hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican paper.

8. People used the power of steam Developed machine tools Established iron production and manufacturing or various products

9. Printing Press by Guttenberg the German goldsmith's 15th-century contribution to the technology was revolutionary — enabling the mass production of books and the rapid dissemination of knowledge throughout Europe.

10. Newpapers the German goldsmith's 15th-century contribution to the technology was revolutionary — enabling the mass production of books and the rapid dissemination of knowledge throughout Europe.

11. Telephone A telephone, or phone, is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly

12. Telegraph The telegraph revolutionized long-distance communication by transmitting electrical signals over a wire laid between stations – a system with roots in earlier European inventions. In order for you to use the telegraph you should be knowledgeable first about Morse Code- an alphabet or code in which letters are represented by combinations of long and short signals of light or sound.

13. The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers long distance communication became more efficient.

14. Transistor Radio A transistor radio is a small portable radio receiver that uses transistor-based circuitry.

15. Television

16. EDSAC- Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator an early British computer considered to be the second stored program electronic computer.

17. EDSAC- Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator

18. UNIVAC- Universal Automatic Computer handled both numbers and alphabetic characters equally well was unique in that it separated the complex problems of input and output from the actual computation facility. was the first general-purpose electronic digital computer design for business application produced in the United States.

19. The Internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation of the social network. People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. We are now living in the information age.

20. Web Browsers – Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer (1995 ) Blogs: Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999), Wordpress (2003) Social Media: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Facebook (2004) Microblogs: Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007) Video: YouTube (2005) Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality Video Chat: Skype (2003), Google Hangouts (2013) Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995) Portable Computers: laptops (1980), tables (1993), netbooks (2008) Smartphones Wearable Technology Cloud and Big Data