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MIL: Evolution of Media Flashcards

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Before 1700; BCE
- People discovered fire, developed paper form plants, and forged equipment from weapon though stones, bronze, copper, and iron.

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Pre-Industrial Age

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Pre-Industrial. 35, 000 BCE
* Also known as “PARIETAL ART”
* Painted/draw on cave walls and ceilings
* First used in Eurasia
* Theorized as ways of communicating; theorized also as for religious or ceremonial purposes

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Cave Painting

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Pre-Industrial. 2, 500 BCE
* From “pith” of Papyrus plant; similar to a thick paper
* First used in Ancient Egypt; earliest archeological evidence

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Papyrus

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Pre-Industrial. In 2, 400 BCE
* Writing medium, writing in cuneiform during Bronze & Iron Age
* Invented probably by the Sumerians

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Clay Tables in Mesopotamia

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Pre-Industrial. First newspaper in the world
* First used in Roman Republic
* Stated results of legal proceedings and outcomes of trials as well as Public and Military notices

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Acta Diurna

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Pre-Industrial. System conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles

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Semaphor Flags

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Pre-Industrial. Main courier service.

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Pony Express

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1700 – 1930
- People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production

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Industrial Age

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Industrial. London Gazette
* 1740; one of the official journals of record of the British
Government
* Oldest surviving English newspaper

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Newspaper

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Industrial. 1874 or 1800
* Mechanical and electromechanical machine for
writing characters

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Typewriter

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Industrial. 2nd century;
* “palace reports” and “imperial bulletin”
* First used in early as the Han Dynasty or as late as the Tang Dynasty

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Dibao in China

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Industrial. 1440 or 1900s
* Wilhelm Haas (Swiss Founder) and Charles Stanhope (built iron press)
* can print around 200 impressions per hour.

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Printing Press for Mass Production

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Industrial. Johannes Guttenberg (1448)
* One of the most important inventions in human kind.

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German Printing Press

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Industrial. 1876; telecommunication device
* Alexander Graham Bell was the first one to be granted
a US patent for a device
* In contrast, Antonio Meucci and Elisha Gray were said
to be the legit inventors

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Telephone

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Industrial. 1890; allows viewers to watch brief movie through a small peephole
* Developed by Thomas Edison from his other invention: phonograph
* Still survived in the form of peep shows

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Kinetoscope

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16
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Industrial. 19th century; provide music to accompany the image of
the kinetoscope

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Kinetophone

17
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Industrial. Late 19th century:
* system of communication employing electronical apparatus to transmit and receive signals
* Invented by Samuel F.B. Morse in USA and in Britain by
Sir Charles Wheatstone with Sir William F. Cooke

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Telegraph

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People harnessed the power of electricity that led to electrical telegraph, electrical circuits.

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Electronical Age

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Electronical. Late 19th century; Hollerith’s _________ (Herman
Hollerith)
* Stiff paper used to contain digital information
* Card for computing data
* Have patterns of holes punched

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Punch Card

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Electronical. 1947; small portable radio that uses transistors in its circuits

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Transistor Radio

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Electronical. 1920; used for transmitting moving images
* Primary medium during 1950

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Television

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Electronical. 1946; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer/Calculator
* One of the earliest electronical general-purpose computers made

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ENIAC

23
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Meaning of EDSAC and EDVAC

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EDSAC – Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
EDVAC - Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

24
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Electronical. 1950; high level computer designed for most intensive computational task (stats)

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Mainframe Computers

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Electronical. Displays video, image, or computer data; overhead projector
* Use of microelectronics in the development of personal computers, etc.

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LCD Projectors

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Electronical. Popularized the world wide web & the internet
* 1900; named after its support (before LED & LCD, we have CRT)
* Formerly Microsoft Internet explorer & Windows internet explorer

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Web Browsers

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Electronical. Commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE
* 2003; blog publishing service that allows multiusers
blog with time stamped entries

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Blogs

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Industrial.
* Also first published as “Oxford Gazette”

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London Gazette. Newspaper

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Industrial. 2nd century;
* Ancient Chinese Gazette

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Dibao in China

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Industrial. 5th century;
* Folding books by the Pre-Columbian Maya Civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script in Mesoamerican bark cloth
* More durable and better writing surface than Papyrus

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Maya Codices

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New age. 1900;
* included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995

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Web Browser

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Electronical. 2003;
* Developed by Pyra Labs

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Blogs

33
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Industrial Age. 7th century;
* Originated in China during Tang Dynasty
* Used in printing text, images, or patterns in those times

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Wood Blocks as Printing Press

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New Age. 2003;
* a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.

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Social Networks

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New Age. 2004;
* a broadcast medium that exists in
the form of blogging
* allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links

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Microblogs

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New Age. 2004;
* software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web
* The information may be a mix of web pages, images, and other types of files.

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Web Search Engine

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New Age. 2005; Video-sharing Internet venture ex. Youtube

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Video

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New Age. 20th Century; Laptops, Netbooks, Tablets
* computer that is designed to be moved from one place to another and includes a display and keyboard

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Portable Computers

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