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100
2000 B.C. – Phoenician System of letters
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100
1900-1800 B.C. – Semitic alphabet near the nile.
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600 B.C. – Egyptian paper-like scrolls
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100
540 B.C. – Public library in Greece
Librarys just like our lirarsy today. -
Period: 100 to
Multimedia
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105 A.D. – Chinese paper (didn’t arrive in West for 1000 years.)
Chinese parper was ued in scrolls and wirtings. Parper spread the teachings of confushus. -
Jan 21, 1450
1450 – Gutenberg press (leads to Protestant Revolution, among other things)
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Jan 22, 1500
1500s – Italian newspapers.
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Jan 21, 1517
1517 – Martin Luther nails “Ninety Five Theses” to church door in Germany
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Jan 22, 1534
1534 – First News in Mexico.
The first new and events in the world. -
1665 – Oxford Gazette (first English newspaper) in England
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1690 – First American newspaper: Publick Occurrences (One issue)
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1704 – First good American newspaper: The Boston News-Letter
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1741 – First American magazine
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1791 – Bill of Rights of the U.S.A. (including First Amendment) ratified
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1798 – Alien and Sedition Acts passed in U.S.A.
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1827 – First African-American newspaper in U.S. is Freedom’s Journal
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1828 – First Native American newspaper in U.S. is Cherokee Phoenix
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1828 – First Dictionary
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1844 – Samuel Morse granted patent for telegraph. First message was May 24: “What hath God wrought?” Second message: “Have you any news?”
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1848 – A.P. founded
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1860-1865 – Civil War brings home news
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1877 – Thomas Edison develops the “talking machine”
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1888 – George Eastman introduces the camera
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1888 – Edison lab develops motion camera
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1890s – Edison develops easy to get phonograph
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1891 –Edison patents the Kinetoscope – first parlor opens 1894 in New York
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1905 – First “nickelodeon machines”
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1911 – Newsreels begin that continue into 1960s
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1914-1918 – World War I propaganda ,and censorship technology
Cencorship of the media and radio -
1920 – First radio stations in north america
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1923 – Lee de Forest shows first “talkie”
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1936 – England is first country with regular TV broadcasts
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1938 – Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” broadcast
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1939 – First FM radio station started in New Jersey
Higher def radio. -
1939 – TV is a hit at the World Fair.
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1941 – First TV commercial advertises a Bulova clock
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1950s – “Golden Age of Television”
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Late 1960s – Internet formed for exchange of ideas, not available to general public though.
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1969 – Neal Armstrong walks on moon; seen on TV
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1972 – Cigarette advertising is banned from TV
Chaned busness about cigarettes to come -
1974 – Richard Nixon resigns, a result of Watergate media coverage
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1976 – Matsushita introduces VHS tape
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1979 – Sony Walkman appears in Japan.
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1983 – Sony introduces the CD player
CDs could hold more data and they were smaller than VHS. -
1990s – Internet access opened to general public; changes everything
The most important thing in trems of the computer. -
2001 iPod and MP3 format compressed digital files debut
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Facebook goes online
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Twitter goes up
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Facebook goes public
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8 March 2014 Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 goes missing
This stirred a gigantic search and it has not been found as of this post. -
apple vs samsung lawsuit
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2007 Iphone comes out
The iphone was a smart phone and you could surf the web which was much better than the flip phones of the day.
