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

Early methods of communication

4,000BC
Egyptian
Hieroglyphs

32,000BC
Evidence of
paleolithic cave
paintings

CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media

Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011

800BC
Greek Alphabet

1050BC
Phoenician
Alphabet

700BC
Roman (Latin)
Alphabet

Digital Media History Timeline

Formal methods of communication

1827
First permanent
photograph

1440
Printing Press is
invented by
Johannes
Guttenberg

CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media

Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011

1874
Sholes and Gliddon
Typewriter

1870
'Writing Ball'
Typewriter

1888
George Eastman's
Kodak No1 Box Camera

1876
Alexander Graham
Bell invents the
Telephone

Digital Media History Timeline

Formal methods of communication

1895
Marconi invents the
radio

1901
First Trans-Atlantic
radio broadcast

1895
First Motion Picture
Camera

CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media

Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011

1907
First colour
photography
process is
developed

1925
John Logie Baird
invents television

1943
Collossus Mk I
computer

Digital Media History Timeline

Technology Growth

1976/77
First consumer
computers

1962
Space War
Computer Game

1958
The Integrated
Circuit (microchip)
is invented

CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media

Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011

1969
ARPANET

1984
Apple Macintosh

1981
IBM PC Home
Computer

1985
Microsoft Windows

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

Early methods of communication

4,000BC
Egyptian
Hieroglyphs

32,000BC
Evidence of
paleolithic cave
paintings

800BC
Greek Alphabet

1050BC
Phoenician
Alphabet

700BC
Roman (Latin)
Alphabet

CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media

Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011

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

Digital Media History Timeline

Formal methods of communication

1827
First permanent
photograph

1440
Printing Press is
invented by
Johannes
Guttenberg

1874
Sholes and Gliddon
Typewriter

1870
'Writing Ball'
Typewriter

1888
George Eastman's
Kodak No1 Box Camera

1876
Alexander Graham
Bell invents the
Telephone

CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media

Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011

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

Digital Media History Timeline

Formal methods of communication

1895
Marconi invents the
radio

1901
First Trans-Atlantic
radio broadcast

1895
First Motion Picture
Camera

1925
John Logie Baird
invents television

1907
First colour
photography
process is
developed

1943
Collossus Mk I
computer

CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media

Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011

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

Digital Media History Timeline

Technology Growth

1976/77
First consumer
computers

1962
Space War
Computer Game

1958
The Integrated
Circuit (microchip)
is invented

1969
ARPANET

1984
Apple Macintosh

1981
IBM PC Home
Computer

1985
Microsoft Windows

CDME1001: Communication Skills for Digital Media

Digital Media History
Andy Screen 2011

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