Evolution or Development of Media or Mass Media

By nicholastran_

  • Motion Pictures/ Cinema

    14 Apr 1894 The first commerical exhibition of motion pictures was given in New York City using 10 Kinetoscopes.

  • First Commercial Radio Broadcast

    Radio station KDKA in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania produced the first commercially recognized radio broadcast.

  • TIME Magazine

    Briton Hadden and Henry Luce created the first weekly magazine in the United States.

  • Television

    Philo Farnsworth is credited with inventing the current system of television.

  • First Satellite

    First Satellite
    24 Jan 1957 Soviet Russia launched Sputnik 1; the first artificial satellite to be put in orbit. Satellites are used for a number of things including communication, military, weather, and research.

  • First Laptop

    Adam Osborne developed the Osborne 1 which was considered to be the first actually portable laptop (it still weighed 24 pounds though).

  • Smartphones

    IBM Simon was the first "smartphone" invented. It had a touchscreen and some familiar features like calendar and game functions.

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    24 Feb 2004 Mark Zukerberg launched what is today's leading social networking site.

  • Youtube

    Steven Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim invented YouTube which is used to upload, view, and share videos worldwide.