The Past

Quo Quo Cave Drawings
The first form of recording by humans took place in dark, dry caves of Europe by some of the very first humans during the Stone Age. The Quo Quo Cave Drawings they depicted life as they knew it. The scene above depicts warriors taking on the strong cattle. The cattle became source of food, clothing, and weaponry.

The Vitruvian Man (1492) by Leonardo Da Vinci explores the proportions of the human body in great detail. It is a great example of drawing and writing’s role in recording history. Not only is drawing used but so is writing used in recording ideas.
The Cassette tape was first released in 1962 by the Philips Company. It is a way of recording sound, although there have been many I chose this because as a child I recorded my favorite songs from the radio on to this device. Only 15 years ago they were commonly used and are now obsolete as music is now recorded in digital files.

The VHS tape was developed by JVC and was released in 1976.we recorded movies, for entertainment, but we recorded mostly what our lives and cultures were like. As we videotaped the high points in our lives we also caught the lows and those then present moments so quickly become the past.

The small and affordable digital camera became a large part of many of our live allowing anyone to take a snap shot of time down to thousandths of a second. All these items are forms of recording.