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First Working Telegraph
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Media Timline
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Morse Code Created
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Morse Transmits first Morse Code Message
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Atlantic Cable Created - first messages transported across Atlantic Ocean
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Telegraph messaging adopted across England
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Telegraph set up between England and France
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Using a fleet of 2000 carrier pigeons and telegraph
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Telegraph messages printed
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San Francisco and France connected by telegraph
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Telephone invented
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Stock telegraph ticker invented
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Bell invents the telephone (already invented previously)
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Edison invents the phonograph
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First telephone line laid
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First phone book
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Invention of radio
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First Fax
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First radio news broadcast
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Regular television broadcasting
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First practical tape recorder
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First instance of mass hysteria created by the media (HG Wells War of the Worlds)
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First record
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Oldest known recordings of computer music
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First computer animated film
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First earth to satellite to earth transmission
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Email begins
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The @ in email was added
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First word processor
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Virtual Reality created
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Digital Cellular Telephone
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First scanner
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First digital camera
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More email was sent than paper mail
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DVD's
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MP3's
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iPod
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Apple opens iTunes store
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Google buys You Tube
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iPhone
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XM Radio