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  Europeans took move-able type quite quickly. Sometime between 1440 and 1450.
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  In 1827, Joseph Nicéphore Niépce took the first photography but it took 8 hours to develop and it was blurry. In 1837, Louis Daguerre created a sharper image.
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  In the 1830s and 1840s Samuel Morse developed the telegraph which revolutionized long-distance communication.
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  Alexander Graham Bell invented a device that could transmit speech electrically.
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  The first silent movie was The Great Train Robbery that was released in 1891
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  The first radio signal sent and received was in Italy in 1895 by Guglielmo Marconi.
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  Invented in 1922 by Robert Flaherty was a documentary about the harsh life of Eskimos
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  John Logie Baird invented television in the 1920s and in 1925 he demonstrated it.
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  Lowell Thomas hosted the first-ever news broadcast on television in 1940 and the first regularly scheduled television-news broadcasts in 1950
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  The first recognizable social media site, Six Degrees, was created in 1997. It enabled users to upload a profile and make friends with other users.