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The Evolution of Traditional To New Media: Prepared By: Joylyn Catalan - MIL Teacher

The document traces the evolution of traditional media to new media across four ages: pre-industrial, industrial, electronic, and information. In the pre-industrial age before 1700, communication methods included cave paintings and clay tablets. The industrial age from 1700-1930 saw developments like the printing press and newspaper. The electronic age from 1930-1980 brought transistors and the transistor radio. Finally, the information age from 1980 onward has been defined by the internet and digital technologies like blogs, social networks, smartphones, and cloud computing.

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The Evolution of Traditional To New Media: Prepared By: Joylyn Catalan - MIL Teacher

The document traces the evolution of traditional media to new media across four ages: pre-industrial, industrial, electronic, and information. In the pre-industrial age before 1700, communication methods included cave paintings and clay tablets. The industrial age from 1700-1930 saw developments like the printing press and newspaper. The electronic age from 1930-1980 brought transistors and the transistor radio. Finally, the information age from 1980 onward has been defined by the internet and digital technologies like blogs, social networks, smartphones, and cloud computing.

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THE EVOLUTION OF TRADITIONAL TO NEW MEDIA

Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s) - People discovered fire, developed paper from plants, and forged
weapons and tools with stone, bronze, copper and iron. Examples:

• Cave paintings (35,000 BC) • Clay tablets in Mesopotamia (2400 BC)

• Papyrus in Egypt (2500 BC) • Acta Diurna in Rome (130 BC)

• Dibao in China (2nd Century) • Codex in the Mayan region (5th Century)

• Printing press using wood blocks (220 AD)

Industrial Age (1700s-1930s) - People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established
iron production, and the manufacturing of various products (including books through the printing press).
Examples:

• Printing press for mass production (19th century) • Newspaper- The London Gazette (1640) • Typewriter
(1800)Telephone (1876)

• Motion picture photography/projection (1890) • Commercial motion pictures (1913) • Motion picture with
sound (1926)

• Telegraph • Punch cards

Electronic Age (1930s-1980s) - The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People
harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers.
In this age, long distance communication became more efficient.

Examples:

 Transistor Radio • Television (1941) • Large electronic computers- i.e. EDSAC (1949) and UNIVAC 1
(1951)
• Mainframe computers - i.e. IBM 704 (1960) • Personal computers - i.e. HewlettPackard 9100A (1968), Apple
1 (1976) • OHP, LCD projectors

Information Age (1900s-2000s) - The Internet paved the way for faster communication and the creation
of the social network. People advanced the use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers,
mobile devices, and wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sound and data are digitalized. We are now
living in the information age.

Examples:

• Web browsers: Mosaic (1993), Internet Explorer (1995) • Blogs: Blogspot (1999), LiveJournal (1999),
Wordpress (2003) • Social networks: Friendster (2002), Multiply (2003), Facebook (2004) • Microblogs:
Twitter (2006), Tumblr (2007)

• Video: YouTube (2005) • Augmented Reality / Virtual Reality • Video chat: Skype (2003), Google Hangouts
(2013) • Search Engines: Google (1996), Yahoo (1995)

• Portable computers- laptops (1980), netbooks (2008), tablets (1993) • Smart phones • Wearable technology
• Cloud and Big Data

Prepared by: Joylyn Catalan – MIL Teacher Source : MIL TG

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