Media Timeline / Categories

Early Media

• Prehistoric – Example cave paintings (35,000 BC)

• Oral Tradition – Example Native Stories• Scribal Culture – Ancient Egypt 3,000 BC

(Hieroglyphics, Papyrus) • Paper – China 200 BC• Biblical Scribes 500-200 BC

Print Media

• 1440 Printing Press – Print and Publication • (Bible… then others)• Journalism… books, newspapers, etc• 1814 -1843 photography• Advertising• Comics

Electrical Media

• Telegraphy – Communication with coded signals (1800’s)

• Telephony – Sounds between widely connected points (1870’s telephone)

• Sound recording

Mass Media

• Radio - 1905• TV - 1950• Film - 1891

Digital Computing

• Computing 1980’s• Email 1990’s• Internet 1995

Personal Portable Media

• Beginning in 2004…• Often driven by satellite devices• Ipods, cell phones, text messages, Black Berry,

GPS

Multi Media is fast paced and changing

• 1988 – Electric typewriters are a LUXURY• 1992 – Most people typed• Computers started to be used, but ran on DOS

platform• 1994 – Windows just introduced• 1996 – Internet available for personal use• Computer may cost up to $2000 with a 1 GIG

hard drive and 8 MB of RAM• 1997- Cell phones large and very expensive.

• 1998 – GPS used only in theory• 2000 - Digital Cameras large with floppy disk

drives. Poor quality• 2000 – CD Discmans• 2004 – Cell Phones (not that popular still…)• 2008 – Ipods (for music), digital cameras, USB

drives• …..Social Media… Facebook, Blogs, Twitter• Ipads…. More every day