P1 - Media Technology - Jack Sagar

Timeline created by Sagarbomb in Science and Technology

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Event Date:	Event Title:	Event Description:
01/01/1439	Invention of The Printing Press	The First Technology To be developed on a mass scale was the printing press which allowed people to produce a large number of documents. Although most people couldn't read.
01/01/1665	Journals	Journals were published by scientists & engineers. The major problem is that most people still couldn't read. On the other hand this allowed ideas to be shared and starting advancing the world of science.
01/01/1731	Magazines	Monthly printing of magazines, allows for people who can read to follow their interest and read about them.
01/01/1788	Newspaper	Technology allows for daily printing of a newspaper. People can now find out what happened yesterday and react to it today. This speeds up events and creates reporters.
01/01/1876	First Telephone	People can now communicate in real time over long distances, but only used on a commercial basis due to the cost.
01/01/1912	Telephone for Residential Use	The first telephone used for residential purposes, but the price was still quite high.
01/01/1922	Radio	The first radio transmission was broadcast straight into peoples homes. These companies were run by government owned broadcasters. Millions Bought radios.
01/01/1936	Television	This was a very powerful piece of media which was shaping peoples opinions. It also created news reporters. Today there are 24 million TV's in the UK
01/01/1962	Internet	The US military invents the internet.
01/01/1984	Cable TV	This allows for the transmission of hundreds of channels and also lays the groundwork for broadband.
01/01/1985	Mobile Phone	The first mobile phone a big, numb 1KG phone and cost about £2000 in todays money and only had 30 minutes talk time. Usually used by businessmen in major cities etc.
01/01/1990	SKY TV	SKY was very high tech when it came out and still is to a certain extent. This allows for even more channels and allows live reporting direct from the scene. Now it has 10 million subscribers.
01/01/1992	Text Message	Is now the most popular form of communication and 1 billion texts are now sent weekly in the UK.
01/01/1993	World Wide Web 1.0	You can now search for informatiuon and buy things on sites like ebay etc.
01/01/2001	3G Mobile	Allows for recording of films and images on mobile phones everyone can now do this.
01/01/2002	Web 2.0	The internet is now mainly about social networking i.e BEBO and MySpace
01/01/2009	4G Mobile Phones	High Speed internet is now on mobiles
01/01/2011	Web 3.0	Now the internet is becoming more of a tool that finds, arranges on your behalf.
Timespan Dates:	Timespan Title:	Timespan Description:
01/01/1439 to 12/31/2011	Media Technology