Lesson 3

• Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)


  • Discovery of fire
  • Development of paper from plants
  • Forged weapons and tools
  • Retrieval and storing of information
• Pre-Industrial Age (Before 1700s)


  • Clay paintings (3500 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 Mayan Region (5th Century)
  • Printing press using wood blocks - for the proliferation of the bible
• Industrial Age (1700s)


  • Used steam
  • Developed machine tools
  • Established iron production
  • Manufacturing of various products (Ex. books through printing press)
• Industrial Age (1700s)


  • Printing press for mass production (19th Century)
  • Newspaper of London Gazette (1640)
  • Typewriter (1800)
  • Telephone (1876) - invented by Alexander Graham Bell
  • Motion picture photography/projection (1880)
  • Commercial motion picture (1913)
  • Motion picture with sound (1926)
  • Telegraph - long-distance transmission of message using symbols
• Electronic Age (1930-1980)


  • Invention of transition radio ushered
  • Harnessed the power of transistors to create transistor radio, electronic circuits, and early computers
  • Long distance communication became more efficient
• Information Age (1900s-2000s)


  • Internet paved the way to foster communication and create social media networks
  • Advanced use of microelectronics with the invention of personal computer, mobile devices, and wearable technology
  • Voice images are digitized
• Information Age (1900s-2000s)

  • 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)
• Information Age (1900s-2000s)

  • Augmented Reality/Virtual Reality 
  • Video Chat
  • Skype (2003)
  • Google Hangouts (2013)
  • Search Engine
  • Google (1996)
  • Yahoo (1995)
  • Portable Computer
  • Laptop (1980)
  • Netbook (2008)
  • Tablet (1993)
  • Smart Phones
  • Wearable Technology
  • Cloud and Big Data