Activity no.

04 INFORMATION AGE Class Section: Class Schedule:

Historical Timeline AAB TTH 2:00-3:30PM
Last Name, First Name MI: Cañete, Janela Nichole F.

General Instructions:
a. Complete the Worksheet.
b. Follow the specific instructions /5 points -deduction for late submissions!!
c. NO score for down- loaded output or Copy-paste answers!!
d. Cite 2 references in APA 6 0r APA 7 Format
Specific Instructions:
1. Create a Historical Timeline of the development of the Information Age from the 18th Century to the 21st Century.
2. Use any timeline template showing dates, events, descriptions of milestones, and visual images in your output.
3. Attach the created timeline in the space provided below.

1802 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS

Was established in US and

became the largest library in
the world having 200 million
resources per year.

Carbon Arc Lamp

It was used in the libraries, for

the projection and assimilation
of information.

1824 POV

Research about persistence of vision

was published.

1830s DESIGN OF DIGITAL COMPUTER

First design of digital computer was
made. Charles Babbage was the
inventor and Augusta Lady Bryon
assisted him. Bryon commissioned to
translate notes into English and then
augmented it

1837 TELEGRAPH

Invented by Samuel Morse, it

revolutionized distanced
communication. This works by the
transmission of electric signals over
the wires which was laid or installed
in-between stations

Morse Code

It consists a set of dots and

dashes that corresponds to
each letter of the English
alphabet.

1861 MOTION PICTURES PROJECTED

With the use of light, and the

swift speed of showing images,
it created an illusion of moving
pictures.
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1868 TYPEWRITER WAS INVENTED
Christopher Latham Sholes
invented the typewriter. It was
firstly mounted to a sewing
machine and only consists of
uppercase letters.

1876 DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM

It was used to organize books in

library according to their genre to
locate and obtain information
easily.

TELEPHONE

Used to transmit voices or

communicated in a wide range of
distance through wires or even
radios. This was possible because
vibrations was converted to
electrical signals.

1877 HIGH SPEED PHOTOGRAPHY

The quality of still images that was

shown and projected on screen
was improved and enhanced
through the use of 24 cameras,
performed by Edward Muybridge.

1899 FIRST MAGNETIC RECORDING

Engineer Valdemar Poulsen was

acknowledge regarding the first
experiments utilizing magnetism as a
medium to store or record sound.

1902 MOTION PICTURE SPECIAL

EFFECTS

Georges Melies, a filmmaker, firstly

introduced special effects, animations,
and sound effects to a science fiction
film called, Le Voyage Dans La Lune
(1902).
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1906 ELECTRONIC AMPLIFYING TUBE

The first TRIODE an evacuated glass

tube that consists three
electrodes. This was used to amplify
signals in audio and radios.

1923 VLADIMIR ZWORYKIN

Known as the “Father of Television”

who discovered the two key
components which is iconoscope and
kinescope.

Iconoscope

An early camera tube that is

electronic used for the transmission in
television through scanning an image.

1926 First practical sound movie

Developed in Bell Telephone

Laboraties in 1926, this Vitaphone
synchronized music and sound
effects in films.

1939 BROADCASTING

Programs were broadcasted in

televisions through transmissions.

1940s INFORMATION SCIENCE

Information Science became the focus

of discipline.

1945 INVENTION OF HYPERTEXT

It is a device that compresses and

stores books and records, even
communications.
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1946 ENIAC COMPUTER DEVELOPED

The first electric general-purpose

computer.

1971 FIRST SINGLECHIP COPMPUTER

The first single-chip computer or

microprocessor was built by Ted Hoff.

1973 FIRST HANDHELD CELLPHONE

Martin Cooper was the first to develop

handheld cellphone or the mobile
phones.

1983 FIRST LAPTOP

The first "laptop computer" to be

invented.

1984 APPLE MACINTOSH COMPUTER

The first computer to have a graphical

user interface and a mouse as a
standard pointing device/equipment.

Mid 1980s ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE

Used to do easier find, collect, and the

needed information in regarding the
vast collection of data.

1987 HYPERCARD

Developed by Bill Atkinson it is used

to link hypertext documents.
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1988 DIGITAL CAMERA

Fuji DS-1P, the first portable digital

camera that recorded images with a
2MB SRAM memory card and a
battery.

1989 WORLD WIDE WEB

A space of information where links,

webs, and documents are accessed
online or in the internet.

1991 WORLD LIBRARY CD-ROM

Stores documents and literature works

efficiently.

1991 FIRST WEBCAM

The first webcam pointed at a coffee

shop.

1992 FIRST SMARTPHONE

IBM Simon was the first smartphone.

1993 PERSONAL DIGITAL ASSISTANTS

The first Personal Digital Assistant

(PDA) that functions as a
personal information manager.
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1994 FIRST SMART TV

The first ever patent of a Smart TV

was allotted to a French firm.
However, it was not until 2007 the
HP’s Mediasmart TV (SL3760), a
smart TV, was invented and
developed.

1995 INTERNET EXPLORER

Developed by Microsoft, it contains a

series of web browsers accessible
through the internet.

1996 WRAL

The first local TV station to be

transmitted in Digital TV was
the Raleigh-Durham, N.C.

1997 SIX DEGREES

The first recognizable site of social

media that allowed users to upload a
profile and communicate friends with
other users.

1997 GOOGLE

A multifunctional search engine

technology that enabled people to
access the internet.

2001 WIKIPEDIA

Wikipedia began on 15 January

2001, it is an online free encyclopedia
that contains wide range of
information.
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2004 FACEBOOK

A social networking service

launched founded by Mark
Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin and
their fellow roommates.

2005 YOUTUBE

A video-sharing website that allowed

users to upload, share, and view
content.

2006 TWITTER

Twitter is an online social networking

service where users post and interact
with messages, "tweets", and access
news globally.

2007 TUMBLR
A social networking website and a
microblogging site founded by David
Karp. It enabled users to post
multimedia content and blogging
content.

2010 INSTAGRAM

An online mobile and desktop

application accessible through the
internet. It allows its users to share
and post pictures and videos privately
or publicly.

2016 TIKTOK

Merged with its rival app Musical.ly,

TikTok kept its name and became as
one of the most used and popular
video sharing application in the
21st century.
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of the information age 3000 BC o Sumerian writing
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