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cuneiform writing
the person is unknown
there were pictures drawn on a stone tablet and they would communicate by writing pictures back and forth to each other
it was one of the first forms of social communication
http://sedmondsbrown.wordpress.com/2008/11/11/impact-of-technology-communication/350-2900 B.C. -
magnetic recordings
Valdemar Poulsen
it allowed you to listen to music
and it works by you putting steel tape on the song you want to listen to
and when pressed the pressure makes the song play
it was one of the first times to where you could listen to music at home instead of having to go out and listen to music somewhere else
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talking motion picture
Thomas Edison
allows you to watch something on a screen and also lets you hear what they are saying on the screen
It was because it was literally the first time someone could actually watch t.v.
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first ever tape recorder for broadcasting
Joseph Begun
it was so that you could broadcast something locally to other radios that people had
the reason why it was important was because you could broadcast important news to other people that had radios -
Apple 1 home computer
you could go on the web and actually search and browse on the worldwide web and communicate w
it was important because people could actually talk and research over the internet -
sony walkman
Sony corporation
you could portably take it somewhere and listen to music through headphones
you could easily take it from place to place and you could hear the music privately -
apple macintosh
Apple inc.
it was similar to the first ever apple computer but everything on it was so much smoother and the graphics were better and the computer in general was much quicker
it was important because the computer was so much faster and you could browse ,send stuff quicker, etc. -
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government takes control of the internet
U.S. government
The government takes over and monitors the internet
This is important because all of this was new to them and they had never owned the rights to something like this before
