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Newspapers were the only source for content.
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"The 1903 aircraft weighed a little over seven hundred pounds. After a number of frustrating problems with the propeller shafts and transmission sprockets, they finally made four successful flights on December 17. These ranged from a little over 100 feet to over 800 feet." (https://wright.nasa.gov/airplane/planes.html) -
"The radio was invented in 1896, however it was not until 1920 that "a Detroit station airs what is believed to be the first radio news broadcast."
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"The first monthly comic book, aptly titled Comics Monthly, began publication in 1922"
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"Scottish engineer John Baird gave the world's first demonstration of true television before 50 scientists in central London in 1927."
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"The first broadcasts were weekly, 10 minute programs, like the Camel Newsreel Theater on NBC, which began airing in February 1948. For this show, an off screen commentator, John Cameron Swayze, read the news, while a newsreel played on screen."(https://cronkitehhh.jmc.asu.edu/blog/2012/10/an-abridged-version-of-the-history-of-network-television-news/) -
"The first card to be used for payment without needing physical money was invented in 1950. Frank McNamara is credited for this invention and is accompanied by his colleague Ralph Schneider. They both owned and operated Diners Club."(https://nevadainventors.org/20-inventions-1950s/) Funny thing due to today having to pay for certain cable news channels. -
"In the fall of 1951 "he began his famous television series; Life is Worth Living. It was a tremendous success, eventually reaching an estimated 30 million viewers each week, which would make it the most widely-viewed religious series in the history of television. He won an Emmy Award for Most Outstanding Television Personality, was featured on the cover of Time Magazine, and became one of the most influential Catholics of the 20th century" (https://fulton-sheen.catholic.edu/bio/index.html) -
"The first Playboy appeared in December 1953 with Marilyn Monroe on the cover."(https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/09/28/business/media/playboy-hugh-hefner.html) -
The inventor Jonas Salk "started growing the three polioviruses on the kidney cells of monkeys. He killed the viruses using a formaldehyde solution and then injected the monkeys. The injected vaccine prevented them from contracting paralytic poliomyelitis."(https://nevadainventors.org/20-inventions-1950s/) -
"Douglas Engelbart of Stanford Research Center invented the computer mouse in 1963."(https://www.techwalla.com/articles/famous-inventions-of-the-1960s) -
"During the tumultuous Sixties many communities in America witnessed the explosion of colorful, controversial countercultural newsletters and papers like Boston's Avatar, Austin's Rag and Seattle's Helix. LA's Free Press got things rolling: "Founded by Art Kunkin in 1964, the Los Angeles "Free Press" (often called the Freep) is wisely considered to be the youth movement's first underground newspaper."(https://www.realchangenews.org/news/2011/03/31/era-new-media-born-1960s) -
"In 1964, a team led by Nobutoshi Kihara developed the CV-2000, the world's first VCR intended for home use. This was the first step toward realizing Masaru Ibuka's dream of creating a video player that would be suitable for home use in terms of both size and price." (https://www.sony.com/en/SonyInfo/CorporateInfo/History/SonyHistory/2-01.html) -
"On June 1, 1980, CNN (Cable News Network), the world’s first 24-hour television news network, makes its debut. The network signed on from its headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, with a lead story about the attempted assassination of civil rights leader Vernon Jordan."
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"Talk shows were the new cultural phenomenon of the nineties. Talk show hosts like Oprah Winfrey and Phil Donahue became household names. "Infotainment" also became bigger, with shows like "Entertainment Tonight" offering bits of info to keep viewers watching." (http://www.f-duban.fr/Sitaduban/Ressources_civ._US/Dossiers/Media/Media%20in%20the%201990s.html) -
"In 1992, a group of students and researchers at the University of Illinois developed a sophisticated browser that they called Mosaic. (It later became Netscape.) Mosaic offered a user-friendly way to search the Web: It allowed users to see words and pictures on the same page for the first time and to navigate using scrollbars and clickable links. " (https://www.history.com/topics/inventions/invention-of-the-internet) -
"As consumers and the tech industry in the West were still tinkering with what many referred to as PDA/cell phone hybrids, an impressive smartphone ecosystem was coming into its own across the way in Japan. In 1999, local upstart telecom NTT DoCoMo launched a series of handsets linked to a high-speed internet network called i-mode." This was the start of the merger between media and tech.
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Myspace was the first big player as far as social media goes after that it was take over by Facebook for the number one spot around 2008. -
Apple launches the smartphone wars to truely see who can merge tech and media the best. Before the iphone "Full websites didn't run on mobile phones, so companies were forced to build weak, mobile versions of their sites." (https://www.businessinsider.com/first-phone-anniversary-2016-12)
