History of Media Technology By lawrencek Oct 23, 1816 First Working Telegraph Period: Oct 23, 1816 to Oct 23, 2009 Media Timline Oct 23, 1837 Morse Code Created Oct 23, 1844 Morse Transmits first Morse Code Message Oct 23, 1845 Atlantic Cable Created - first messages transported across Atlantic Ocean Oct 23, 1845 Telegraph messaging adopted across England Oct 23, 1850 Telegraph set up between England and France Oct 23, 1851 Using a fleet of 2000 carrier pigeons and telegraph Oct 23, 1856 Telegraph messages printed Oct 23, 1861 San Francisco and France connected by telegraph Oct 23, 1861 Telephone invented Oct 23, 1867 Stock telegraph ticker invented Oct 23, 1876 Bell invents the telephone (already invented previously) Aug 12, 1877 Edison invents the phonograph Oct 23, 1877 First telephone line laid Nov 23, 1878 First phone book Oct 23, 1895 Invention of radio Oct 23, 1901 First Fax Aug 31, 1920 First radio news broadcast May 11, 1928 Regular television broadcasting Oct 23, 1935 First practical tape recorder Oct 30, 1938 First instance of mass hysteria created by the media (HG Wells War of the Worlds) Oct 23, 1948 First record Nov 23, 1951 Oldest known recordings of computer music Oct 23, 1961 First computer animated film Jun 10, 1962 First earth to satellite to earth transmission Oct 23, 1965 Email begins Oct 23, 1971 The @ in email was added Oct 23, 1976 First word processor Oct 23, 1978 Virtual Reality created Oct 23, 1980 Digital Cellular Telephone Oct 23, 1982 First scanner Oct 23, 1989 First digital camera Oct 23, 1996 More email was sent than paper mail Oct 23, 1996 DVD's Oct 23, 1998 MP3's Oct 23, 2001 iPod Apr 28, 2003 Apple opens iTunes store Oct 23, 2006 Google buys You Tube Oct 23, 2007 iPhone Oct 23, 2008 XM Radio