CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011
Digital Media History Timeline
32,000BCEvidence of
paleolithic cave paintings
4,000BCEgyptian
Hieroglyphs
1050BCPhoenician Alphabet
800BCGreek Alphabet
700BCRoman (Latin)
Alphabet
Early methods of communication
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011
Digital Media History Timeline
1440Printing Press is
invented by Johannes
Guttenberg
1827First permanent
photograph
1870'Writing Ball' Typewriter
1874Sholes and Gliddon
Typewriter
1876Alexander Graham
Bell invents the Telephone
Formal methods of communication
1888George Eastman's
Kodak No1 Box Camera
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011
Digital Media History Timeline
1895First Motion Picture
Camera
1901First Trans-Atlantic
radio broadcast
1925John Logie Baird invents television
1907First colour photography
process is developed
Formal methods of communication
1943Collossus Mk I
computer
1895Marconi invents the
radio
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011
Digital Media History Timeline
1962Space War
Computer Game
1976/77First consumer
computers
1969ARPANET
Technology Growth
1981IBM PC – Home
Computer
1958The Integrated
Circuit (microchip) is invented
1985Microsoft Windows
1984Apple Macintosh
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011
Digital Media History Timeline
32,000BCEvidence of
paleolithic cave paintings
4,000BCEgyptian
Hieroglyphs
1050BCPhoenician Alphabet
800BCGreek Alphabet
700BCRoman (Latin)
Alphabet
Early methods of communication
32000BC – Earliest believed examples of mans' attept at communication through images found at Lascoux, France
4000BC – Egyptians develop early alphabet – hieroglyphs – a set of pictographs read in an 'ox-bow' pattern to record events. Stone carvings and emergence of papyrus
1050BC – Phoenicians develop aphabet and expand trade throughout the Mediterranean.
800BC – this leads to the emergence of the Greek alphabet
700BC – which is adapted by the Romans into the Latin alphabet
We begin to see a standardisation emerging in methods of recording and communicating information
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011
Digital Media History Timeline
1440Printing Press is
invented by Johannes
Guttenberg
1827First permanent
photograph
1870'Writing Ball' Typewriter
1874Sholes and Gliddon
Typewriter
1876Alexander Graham
Bell invents the Telephone
Formal methods of communication
1888George Eastman's
Kodak No1 Box Camera
1440 – Guttenbergs Printing press is the beginning of mass production and makes books accessible to the general population thereby increasing the dissemination of information.
1827 – The first permanent (monochome) photograph is developed using the sliding box camera
1870 – Rasmus Malling-Hansen invents the 'Writing Ball' Tyoewriter which is the beginning of the democratisation of then production process
1874 – Sholes and Gliddon develop the typewriter to include the QWERTY keybard still widely used today
1876 – Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone where he was able to transmit his voice over a telegraph wire
1888 – George Eastman introduces the Kodak No1 Box Camera for the mass market
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011
Digital Media History Timeline
1895First Motion Picture
Camera
1901First Trans-Atlantic
radio broadcast
1925John Logie Baird invents television
1907First colour photography
process is developed
Formal methods of communication
1943Collossus Mk I
computer
1895Marconi invents the
radio
1895 – Auguste and Louis Lumiere develop the first motion picture camera, the 'I' Motion Picture Camera
1895 – Marconi sent and received his first radio signal in Italy
1901 – Marconi makes the first transatlantic wireless broadcast from England to Newfoundland where he successfully received the letter 'S'. This was the first successful transatlantic radio telegraph message.
1907 – Autochrome Lumiere – the first colour photogrphy process is developed
1925 – John Logie Baird invents the television and successfully transmits then first television pictures
1943 – The Collossus MK 1 electronic computing device was developed to help British codebreakers decipher encrypted German messages during WW2. It used vacuum tubes to perform then calculations
CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media
Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011
Digital Media History Timeline
1962Space War
Computer Game
1976/77First consumer
computers
1969ARPANET
Technology Growth
1981IBM PC – Home
Computer
1958The Integrated
Circuit (microchip) is invented
1985Microsoft Windows
1984Apple Macintosh
1958 – Jack Kilby and Robert Noyce, working for Texas Instruments develop the Integrated Circuit or the Micrchip which forms then basis for modern computer technology. It is widely considered to be the most significant invention in modern history.
1962 – Steve Russell and MIT develop the first ever computer game – SpaceWar
1969 – ARPANET – Advance Research Projects Agency Network, an American defence project, allowed computers to talk to each other over a national defence computer network. It heralded the beginning of then Internet revolution.
1976/77 – The Apple I, II & TRS-80 & Commodore Pet computers are amongst the first consumer computers
1981 – IBM develop the IBM PC – Home Computer which marks then beginning of then home computer revolution It had 16K of RAM and retailed for upto $3000.
1984 – Apple Macintosh developed an affordable home computer with a GUI. Apple also introduced DTP software – Macpaint, Macdraw, Pagemaker and Quark Express
1985 – Microsoft Windows is developd and released for the PC market.