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The document traces the evolution of media from pre-historic times to the modern information era. It discusses early forms of media like petroglyphs, cave paintings, dance and body art. It then covers the development of writing systems, alphabets, printing press, photography, telegraph, telephone, phonograph, film, radio, television, computers and the internet over the eras. The information era saw the rise of technologies like personal computers, mobile phones and the worldwide internet that connected billions of devices globally.

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Evolution of Traditional To Ne W Media

The document traces the evolution of media from pre-historic times to the modern information era. It discusses early forms of media like petroglyphs, cave paintings, dance and body art. It then covers the development of writing systems, alphabets, printing press, photography, telegraph, telephone, phonograph, film, radio, television, computers and the internet over the eras. The information era saw the rise of technologies like personal computers, mobile phones and the worldwide internet that connected billions of devices globally.

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EVOLU T IO N O F

I TI O N AL TO N E W
TRAD
MEDIA
MEDIA THROUGH THE AGES
The 20th century was a spectator to the
birth of what is conceivably the most
well-known device in the history of
mankind:

The Television
MEDIA THROUGH THE AGES

The birth of the internet


PRE-HISTORIC ERA (200,000 BCE-4,000 BCE)

Petroglyphs
Are illustrations created by abolishing
part of a rock surface by incising or
carving, as a form of rock art.

Cave Paintings (parietal art)


Are painted drawings on cave walls
or ceilings, maily of prehistoric, to
some 40,000 years ago in both Asia
and Europe.
PRE-HISTORIC ERA (200,000 BCE-4,000 BCE)

Dance
In most archaic civilizations, dancing before the
god was fundamental in temple rituals. In Egypt,
Priests and Priestesses perform ceremonial
movements which mimed significant events in
the story of a god, or imitate cosmic patterns
such as the cadence of night and day.

Body Art
Body painting with clay and other innate
pigments existed in most if not all tribal
cultures. Tattoos, piercing, nose-ears-mouth
plugs, Mehndi, henna, and scarification are
other ritual-based art forms.
ANCIENT ERA (3,000 BCE-100 CE)

Writing
a. Cuneiform script – is one of the
earliest schemes of writing identified
by its wedge shaped marks on clay,
built by means of a blunt reed for a
stylus.
b. Egyptian hieroglyphs – were an
orderly writing system used by the
ancient Egyptians that combined
anagrammed and alphabetic
elements.
ANCIENT ERA (3,000 BCE-100 CE)

Alphabet
a. The Phoenician Alphabet –
called by tradition the Proto-
Canaanite alphabet for epitaphs
older than around 1050 BCE, is the
oldest confirmed alphabet. It
contains 22 letters, all of which are
consonants.
b. True Alphabet– vowels were
bestowed balanced status with
consonants.
INDUSTRIAL ERA (1440 - 1890)
Printing Press
Is an apparatus for administering pressure
to an inked surface recessing upon a print
medium (such as paper or cloth), thereby
transferring ink.

Dry Plates
Also known as gelatin process, is an
improved type of photographic plate. It was
invented by Dr. Richard L. Maddox in
1871, and by 1879 it was so well introduced
that the first dry plate factory had been
established.
INDUSTRIAL ERA (1440 - 1890)
Telegraphy
Is the long-distance broadcast of textual or
symbolic messages. It necessitates that the
technique used for encoding the message
be known to both sender and receiver.

An electrical telegraph was self-sufficiently


advanced and patented in the US in 1837 by
Samuel Morse.

His assistant, Alfred Vail, developed the


Morse Code signaling alphabet with Morse.
INDUSTRIAL ERA (1440 - 1890)

Telephone
Or phone, is a telecommunications
device that allows many users to
administer a conversation when they
are too far apart to be heard.

Alexander Graham Bell invented


and patented the first telephone in
1876.
INDUSTRIAL ERA (1440 - 1890)

Phonograph
Invented in 1877, the phonograph is a
device designed for the power driven
recording and reproduction of sound.

Film
also called a movie, motion picture,
theatrical film or photoplay, is a series
of immobile images that, when shown
on a screen, generates the illusion of
moving images. Its history started in the
1890s.
INFORMATION ERA (1906 - PRESENT)
Radio
is the technology of using radio waves to
convey information, such as sound, by
modulating some property of electro-
magnetic energy waves transferred through
space.

Television
Or TV is a telecommunication medium used
for transmitting sound with moving pictures
in monochrome, or in color, and in two or
three dimensions. It became obtainable in
basic experimental forms in the late 1920s.
INFORMATION ERA (1906 - PRESENT)
Personal Computer (PC)
Is a general-purpose computer.

Mobile Phone
Is a portable telephone which can produce
and receive calls over a radio frequency
carrier. Most services use cellular network
manner, therefore they are often called
cellular telephones or cellphones.

In 1973, the first handheld mobile phone was


invented by John F. Mitchell and Martin
Cooper of Motorola.
INFORMATION ERA (1906 - PRESENT)

Internet
Is the worldwide system of
unified computer networks
that use the Internet
protocol suite (TCP/IP) that
links billions of devices
across the planet.

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