MIL: Evolution of Media

Question 1

Before 1700; BCE
- People discovered fire, developed paper form plants, and forged equipment from weapon though stones, bronze, copper, and iron.

Answer 1

Pre-Industrial Age

Question 2

Pre-Industrial. 35, 000 BCE
* Also known as “PARIETAL ART”
* Painted/draw on cave walls and ceilings
* First used in Eurasia
* Theorized as ways of communicating; theorized also as for religious or ceremonial purposes

Answer 2

Cave Painting

Question 3

Pre-Industrial. 2, 500 BCE
* From “pith” of Papyrus plant; similar to a thick paper
* First used in Ancient Egypt; earliest archeological evidence

Answer 3

Papyrus

Question 4

Pre-Industrial. In 2, 400 BCE
* Writing medium, writing in cuneiform during Bronze & Iron Age
* Invented probably by the Sumerians

Answer 4

Clay Tables in Mesopotamia

Question 5

Pre-Industrial. First newspaper in the world
* First used in Roman Republic
* Stated results of legal proceedings and outcomes of trials as well as Public and Military notices

Answer 5

Acta Diurna

Question 6

Pre-Industrial. System conveying information at a distance by means of visual signals with hand-held flags, rods, disks, paddles

Answer 6

Semaphor Flags

Question 7

Pre-Industrial. Main courier service.

Answer 7

Pony Express

Question 8

1700 – 1930
- People used the power of steam, developed machine tools, established iron production

Answer 8

Industrial Age

Question 9

Industrial. London Gazette
* 1740; one of the official journals of record of the British
Government
* Oldest surviving English newspaper

Answer 9

Newspaper

Question 10

Industrial. 1874 or 1800
* Mechanical and electromechanical machine for
writing characters

Answer 10

Typewriter

Question 11

Industrial. 2nd century;
* “palace reports” and “imperial bulletin”
* First used in early as the Han Dynasty or as late as the Tang Dynasty

Answer 11

Dibao in China

Question 12

Industrial. 1440 or 1900s
* Wilhelm Haas (Swiss Founder) and Charles Stanhope (built iron press)
* can print around 200 impressions per hour.

Answer 12

Printing Press for Mass Production

Question 13

Industrial. Johannes Guttenberg (1448)
* One of the most important inventions in human kind.

Answer 13

German Printing Press

Question 14

Industrial. 1876; telecommunication device
* Alexander Graham Bell was the first one to be granted
a US patent for a device
* In contrast, Antonio Meucci and Elisha Gray were said
to be the legit inventors

Answer 14

Telephone

Question 15

Industrial. 1890; allows viewers to watch brief movie through a small peephole
* Developed by Thomas Edison from his other invention: phonograph
* Still survived in the form of peep shows

Answer 15

Kinetoscope

Question 16

Industrial. 19th century; provide music to accompany the image of
the kinetoscope

Answer 16

Kinetophone

Question 17

Industrial. Late 19th century:
* system of communication employing electronical apparatus to transmit and receive signals
* Invented by Samuel F.B. Morse in USA and in Britain by
Sir Charles Wheatstone with Sir William F. Cooke

Answer 17

Telegraph

Question 18

People harnessed the power of electricity that led to electrical telegraph, electrical circuits.

Answer 18

Electronical Age

Question 19

Electronical. Late 19th century; Hollerith’s _________ (Herman
Hollerith)
* Stiff paper used to contain digital information
* Card for computing data
* Have patterns of holes punched

Answer 19

Punch Card

Question 20

Electronical. 1947; small portable radio that uses transistors in its circuits

Answer 20

Transistor Radio

Question 21

Electronical. 1920; used for transmitting moving images
* Primary medium during 1950

Answer 21

Television

Question 22

Electronical. 1946; Electronic Numerical Integrator and Computer/Calculator
* One of the earliest electronical general-purpose computers made

Answer 22

ENIAC

Question 23

Meaning of EDSAC and EDVAC

Answer 23

EDSAC – Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator
EDVAC - Electronic Discrete Variable Automatic Computer

Question 24

Electronical. 1950; high level computer designed for most intensive computational task (stats)

Answer 24

Mainframe Computers

Question 25

Electronical. Displays video, image, or computer data; overhead projector
* Use of microelectronics in the development of personal computers, etc.

Answer 25

LCD Projectors

Question 26

Electronical. Popularized the world wide web & the internet
* 1900; named after its support (before LED & LCD, we have CRT)
* Formerly Microsoft Internet explorer & Windows internet explorer

Answer 26

Web Browsers

Question 27

Electronical. Commonly abbreviated IE or MSIE
* 2003; blog publishing service that allows multiusers
blog with time stamped entries

Answer 27

Blogs

Question 28

Industrial.
* Also first published as “Oxford Gazette”

Answer 28

London Gazette. Newspaper

Question 29

Industrial. 2nd century;
* Ancient Chinese Gazette

Answer 29

Dibao in China

Question 30

Industrial. 5th century;
* Folding books by the Pre-Columbian Maya Civilization in Maya hieroglyphic script in Mesoamerican bark cloth
* More durable and better writing surface than Papyrus

Answer 30

Maya Codices

Question 31

New age. 1900;
* included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995

Answer 31

Web Browser

Question 32

Electronical. 2003;
* Developed by Pyra Labs

Answer 32

Blogs

Question 33

Industrial Age. 7th century;
* Originated in China during Tang Dynasty
* Used in printing text, images, or patterns in those times

Answer 33

Wood Blocks as Printing Press

Question 34

New Age. 2003;
* a social structure made up of a set of social actors (such as individuals or organizations), sets of dyadic ties, and other social interactions between actors.

Answer 34

Social Networks

Question 35

New Age. 2004;
* a broadcast medium that exists in
the form of blogging
* allow users to exchange small elements of content such as short sentences, individual images, or video links

Answer 35

Microblogs

Question 36

New Age. 2004;
* software system that is designed to search for information on the World Wide Web
* The information may be a mix of web pages, images, and other types of files.

Answer 36

Web Search Engine

Question 37

New Age. 2005; Video-sharing Internet venture ex. Youtube

Answer 37

Video

Question 38

New Age. 20th Century; Laptops, Netbooks, Tablets
* computer that is designed to be moved from one place to another and includes a display and keyboard

Answer 38

Portable Computers