Timeline of media

1. Timeline of media

2. Stone Carving
• Around 800,000 years old, stone carving was used to communicate, store
information and express art as paper hadn’t been discovered yet.

3. Cave Paintings
• The first cave paintings are from around 40,000 years ago. Cavemen painted
drawings on the walls and ceilings of caves as decorations or for information
in their homes.

4. Manuscript
• This is writing by hand on parchment, and used to write Bibles, The Quran
(the earliest being from between 568 and 645 CE).

5. Mail Service
• The first known use of postal service was by the Egyptians, in
2400BC. Pharaohs used couriers to send out decrees throughout the territory
of the State

6. Printing Press
• In 1439, during the Renaissance period, the Printing Press was invented by
Johannes Gutenberg

7. Typewriter
• In 1868, the typewriter was invented by Christopher Lathan Sholes.

8. Telegraph
• In the early 1800s, the Telegraph was invented. An early version was created
by a German inventor, Samuel Sommering, and was an electrochemical
telegraph.

9. Newspaper
• The first regular, weekly newspaper was published in Antwerp in the year 1605. But the first
known newspaper was the Roman Acta Diurna, published on the orders of Julius Caesar in
59BC, but it isn’t known who made it. It was used to inform the public of important social
and political issues, and upcoming events.

10. Telephone
• The first practical telephone was made by Alexander Graham Bell on March
7th 1876.

11. Film/Movie
• The first movie made was by Louis Le Prince in 1888, “Roundhay Garden
Scene” in 1888. It was a silent film, and is the oldest surviving film in
existence.

12. Radio
• The first radio was made in 1895 by Guglielmo Marconi, an Italian inventor.
He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895. By 1899 he flashed
the first wireless signal across the English Channel.

13. Television
• The world's first electronic television was created by a 21 year
old inventor named Philo Taylor Farnsworth in 1927.

14. Computer
• The Z1 was created by German Konrad Zuse in his parents' living room
between 1936 and 1938. It is considered to be the first electromechanical
binary programmable computer, and the first really functional
modern computer.

15. Satellite
• The first artificial satellite was Sputnik 1, launched by the Soviet Union on 4
October 1957 under the Sputnik program, with Sergei Korolev as chief
designer.

16. Videotape
• Charles P. Ginsburg, an researcher at Ampex Corporation, invented
the videotape recorder in 1951.

17. World Wide Web (WWW)
• Sir Tim Berners-Lee, a British computer scientist, created the World Wide
Web (WWW) in 19990.

18. Mobile Phone
• The world's first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973 by Martin
Cooper

19. Social Media
• The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It
enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users.