THE ORAL TRADITION
~200,000 BC : Birth of human speech
THE VISUAL TRADITION
~30,000 BC : Oldest surviving cave paintings
~3500 BC to 2900 BC : the sumerians develope cuneiform writing - pictographs of accounts written on clay tablets.
and Egyptians develope hierogyphic writing
~1050 BC : phonecians develope the first alphabet based on sound
~900 BC : The very first postal service - for government used in China.
~776 BC : First recorded use of homing pigeons used to send message - the winner of the olympic games to Athetians
~305 : first wooden pronting presses invented in China- symbols carved on woodeb block
~1049 : first movable type invented -clay- in china by Pi sheng
~1450 : newspaper appears in Europe
~1455 : Johannes Gutenberg invents a printing press with metal movable types
MASS MEDIA
~1814 : joseph Nicephore achieves the first photographic film.
~1876 : Alexander Graham Bell patents the ELECTRIC TELEPHONE
~1920s and 30s : rise of radio and films
~1950 : rise of TV
THE DIGITAL AGE
~1994 :The American government releases control of internet and WWW is born-making communication at light speed.
