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The Gutenberg Bible was duplicated on the newly-invented printing press, which featured moveable type.
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The first example of a newspaper dates back to 1620, although this form of media didn't reach a mass audience until the 19th Century.
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Thomas Edison invented the phonograph in 1877. He also invented variations that used tape and disc formats.
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"Roundhay Garden Scene" was the earliest film produced using a motion picture camera. It was made by Louis de Prince.
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Guglielmo Merconi accomplished the first successful radio transmission in 1895. He was awarded the patent rights for radio the next year.
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Televisions became commercially available in the 1920s, but the 1936 Olympics in Berlin afforded the opportunity for the games to be carried on live television to a wide audience. TVs became household items after WWII.
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The mobile phone was officially invented in 1906 by Charles E. Alden. It was called a "vest pocket telephone." It was later used in cars and became widely popular in the 1990s.
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While the development of the internet began much earlier, the internet was commercialized in 1995 when restrictions on commercial traffic were removed.
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There have been numerous social networking sites that have come and gone, but the most successful by far has been Facebook. The site now has a billion users, or 37% of the world population.
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One of the earliest printed books, the Diamond Sutra was printed 587 years before the printing press was invented.
