Actity 1: Timeline: Evolution of Traditional to New Media

Pre-Industrial Age

Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)

• According to Mesopotamia beliefs, writing is considered to be a gift of gods, and as such, writing means both power and knowledge

Industrial Age

Motion Picture Photography/Projection (1890)

• One of the oldest of modern imaging, technologies that remains current today.

Electronic Age

Mainframe Computers - i.e IBM 704

• The first mass-produced computer with floating - point arithmetic hardware.

Information Age

• Web Browsers

       A software application for accessing information on the world wide web.