- THE EVOLUTION OF MEDIA FROM HISTORY TO THE PRESENT

1. Evolution of
Traditional Media to
Modern Media
A Media Information Timeline
Matthew T. Narido Manilyn B. Meridor
Rassel Mae G. Ribo Kyla Christina M. Cadapan
Noreen P. Gayas Patricia Artoza
Nicole Ador Reniel Mark Calabia

2. Media Information Timeline
Pre Industrial Age
Industrial Age
Electronic Age
Information Age

3. PRE-INDUSTRIAL AGE
Pre-industrial age dates back
centuries ago where there is no machine
and tools to help perform tasks in mass.

4. Cave Paintings
Cave paintings are printed
drawings on cave walls or
ceilings. Animals are being the
common subjects that give the
most impressive images while
humans mainly appear as images
of hands.
35, 000 B.C.E

5. PAPYRUS
2,400 B.C.E
Papyrus refer to a
document written on sheets of
such material, joined together
side by side and soled up into a
scroll, an early form of a book.

6. Alibata or Baybayin
13th century
Alibata or Baybayin literally
means “to spell” in Tagalog.
Baybayin is one of the number of
individual writing systems used in
Southeast Asia.
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7. INDUSTRIAL AGE
Industrial age is a period of history that
encompasses the changes in economic and social
organization that began around 1760 in Great
Britain and later in other countries, characterized
chiefly by the replacement of hand tools with
power driven machines.

8. Printing Press
1875
A printing press is a device
used for applying pressure to an
inked surface resting upon a print
medium such as paper or cloth,
thereby transferring ink. This is an
improvement on earlier printing
methods.

9. Alexander Graham Bell created the
telephone in 1876. The telephone
further improved communications.
TELEPHONE
1876

10. Thomas Edison created the
phonograph in 1877. Prior to
the creation of the
phonograph the only option
for entertainment.
PHONOGRAPH
1877
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11. ELECTRONIC AGE
Also known as “The rise of Global village”
with the tap-tap-tap of the telegraph.
McLuhan insisted that electronic media are
retribalizing the human race. Instant
communication has returned us to pre-
alphabetical oral tradition where sound and
touch are more important than sight.

12. TELEGRAPH
1836
Was made in the year
1836, it marked the arrival
of instant long distance
communication.

13. ENIAC
1947
One of the world's first digital
computers, is turned on after a
memory upgrade. It will remain in
continuous operation until October
2, 1955.

14. Transistor
1947
Transistor is a device that
regulates current or voltage flow
and acts as a switch or gate for
electronic cignals.

15. COMPUTER MOUSE
1963
Computer Mouse Prototype invented
by Douglas Engelbart and Bill English, It
was more than 20 years later that the
public first gained any idea of how it
could and would be used when it
appeared in the Apple Macintosh in
1984
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16. INFORMATION AGE
The information age is a period in human
history characterized by the shifts from the
traditional industry that the Industrial
Revolution brought through industrialization, to
an economy based on information
computerization.

17. Is a telecommunications
application software product
that specializes in providing
video chat and voice calls.
SKYPE
2003

18. Invented way back in
2004, considered as the most
popular social media website
that allows registered users to
create profiles, uploads photos
and etc.
FACEBOOK
2004

19. Was created in 2006. This
site is an online news and
social networking service
where users post and inter act
with messages, called tweets.
TWITTER
2006

20. Is a mobile, desktop, and
internet based photo-
sharing application and was
created way back 2010.
INSTAGRAM
2010

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