Recording Medium

• papyrus
• paper (painted or written with a pencil). Today paper is mainly produced from wood pulp, in ancient times, old clothes were used. "Modern paper" was invented in France around the 14th century.
• clay and stone (carved or incised)
• wax tablets
• chalk
• quipu

• photographic film
• wax for recording cylinders
• "shellac" compound and later vinyl for analog disk records
• plastic sheet for Dictaphone recorders
• steel wire for magnetic wire recorders
• magnetic tape
• rigid magnetic disks and cylinders
• floppy magnetic disks
• pressed optical media for CDs and DVDs
• write-once, read-many optical media for writable CDs and DVDs
• read-write optical media for rewritable CDs and DVDs
• flash memory media

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