Great Moments in Multimedia History

By Mónica Menchú
  • Jan 1, 1450

    Movable type is invented.

  • Publication of the Daily Courant.

  • Right of Journalists to cover its proceedings.

  • Freedom of speech and the press.

  • The first automatic digital computer is conceived.

  • Invention of the telegraph. (Samuel Morse)

  • Invention of daguerreotype (photograhic reproduction) by Louis Daguerre

  • Magazines publications.

  • The Calotype (negative-positive photo process) is patented.

  • Prediction: Machines might someday be used to create graphics and compose music.

  • The Associated Press. The telegraph

  • Exhibition of the stereoscope (David Brecoster)

  • The first phone call is made.

  • The phonograph is invented by Tohmas Alva Edison

  • The dynamic microphone is invented.

  • Invention of the light bulb by Edison

  • Invention of an electromechanical machine by Herman Hollerith.

  • Photographs are reproduced in books and newspapers.

  • Introduction of the Kodak camera and roll film by George Eastman.

  • A wireless radio system is perfected. (Guglielmo Marconi)

  • Invention of the fax machine.

  • Introduction of animation to films. (James Stuart Blackton)

  • Introduction of the teletype and animation is popularized.

  • The first modern film is released.

  • The world´s first commercial radio station.

  • The Associated Press introduces the Wirehoto.

  • Introduction of the first color movie.

  • Walt Disney releases animation.

  • The Polaroid instant camera is debuted by Edwin Land.

  • Computer technology is used in flight simulates.

  • First 3D film using polarized lenses.

  • IBM introduces the word processor.

  • Technology incudes laptop computers.

  • First e-mail message by Ray Tomlinson.

  • First home video game system.

  • BASIC: the first language program.

  • PC to use color graphics.

  • IBM releases its first PC and MTV debuts.

  • Star Trek II: the first firm to use an all-digital computer graphic sequence.

  • The compact disc is introduced and Internet is created.

  • Cyberspace: A term by William Bibson.

  • Mircrosoft Windows version 1.0

  • The Academic American Encyclopedia becomes the first CD-ROM encyclopedia.

  • A global hypertext system is proposed by Tim Berners (WWW and standards for URL, HTML and HTTP)

  • Debut of WWW on the internet. MP3 digital audio compression format.

  • MS Windows version 3.1 is released and HTML debuts.

  • Internet´s first radio station.

  • First successful nteractive 3D computer game. WXYC-FM becomes the first radio station in Internet.

  • DVD video is introduced.

  • First portable MP3 player.

  • Post modern humans project images.

  • iTunes and iPod were introcued by Apple.

  • Web 2.0