Woodblock printing
is a relief print Maya codices (singular codex) Dibao (ti-pao), sometimes called
technique in which images, designs, are folding books written by the pre- headmen or constables, were local
or words are carved in reverse onto Columbian Maya civilization in Maya officials in Qing and early Republican
a block of wood using wood carving hieroglyphic script on Mesoamerican China, typically selected from among
tools. The image is then inked and bark paper. The folding books are the prominent landowners. Working
printed onto paper, cloth, or other the products of professional scribes in communities of around 100
materials. working under the patronage of households, they were charged with
deities such as the Tonsured Maize overseeing boundaries and land
God and the Howler Monkey Gods. disputes.
PREHISTORIC AGE
MEDIA
INDUSTRIAL AGE
MEDIA
Acta Diurna (Latin: Daily Acts, ELECTRONIC AGE
sometimes translated as Daily Public
Records or poetically as Daily Perhaps the most important use for MEDIA
Gazette) were daily Roman official the papyrus plant was as a writing DIGITAL AGE
surface, created from strips of the
notices, a sort of daily gazette. They
were carved on stone or metal and pith found inside the stalk laid down MEDIA
presented in message boards in in layers and dried under pressure.
public places such as the Forum of
Rome.
It was a continuous shot of picture.
The history of film began in the
Developed in the 1830s and 1890s, when motion picture cameras
1840s by Samuel Morse and were invented and film production
Punched cards date back to the late other inventors, the telegraph companies started to be established.
eighteenth and early nineteenth revolutionized long-distance
centuries when they were used to communication. It worked by
“program” cloth-making machinery transmitting electrical signals over a
and looms. wire laid between stations.
The first commercial typewriters Newspapers flourished in the Created in 1948 at Bell Telephone
were introduced in 1874, but did not Industrial Revolution it also Laboratories. The invention of the
become common in offices until contributed to the massive growth in transistor, which has had a profound
after the mid-1880s. The typewriter the newspaper industry. impact on the electronics industry,
quickly became an indispensable was first developed in 1948.
tool for practically all writing.
Built between 1943 and 1945—the
first large-scale computer to run at Mainframe computers, colloquially
Electronic television was first electronic speed without being referred to as "big iron" are
successfully demonstrated in San slowed by any mechanical parts. computers used primarily by large
Francisco on Sept. 7, 1927. The organizations for critical applications;
system was designed by Philo Taylor bulk data processing, such as census,
Farnsworth, a 21-year-old inventor industry and consumer statistics,
who had lived in a house without enterprise resource planning; and
electricity until he was 14. transaction processing.
Wearables are electronic technology
or devices incorporated into items
that can be comfortably worn on a
body.
Personal computers appeared in Smartphones include mobile phones
1939 and 1944, but they were only that primarily run on the Android
interim steps in computer and iOS operating systems.
development.
A portable computer is What is AR? Augmented reality is an Microblogging is a form of blogging
a computer designed to be easily enhanced, interactive version of a using short posts without titles
moved from one place to another, as real-world environment achieved (known as micro posts or status
opposed to those designed to through digital visual elements, updates). Microblogs "allow users to
remain stationary at a single location sounds, and other sensory stimuli via exchange small elements of content
such as desktops and workstations. holographic technology. such as short sentences, individual
images, or video links", which may
be the major reason for their
popularity.
