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The first papermaking process was documented in China during the Eastern Han period (25–220 AD).
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Goldsmith and inventor Johannes Gutenberg was a political exile from Mainz, Germany when he began experimenting with printing in Strasbourg, France in 1440. He called it the Gutenberg Printing Press.
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Early publications played into the development of what would today be recognized as the newspaper, which came about around 1601.
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Newspapers began circulating in the 17th century. The first real newspaper in England was printed in 1665. The first successful daily newspaper in Britain was printed in 1702. The first American newspaper was printed in 1690.
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Samuel Morse, inventor of the Morse code, sent the first telegram from Washington to Baltimore on May 26, 1844, to his partner Alfred Vail to usher in the telegram era that displaced the Pony Express.
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In the mid 1890s, building on techniques physicists were using to study electromagnetic waves, Guglielmo Marconi developed the first apparatus for long distance radio communication.
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The first video camera was invented in the early 1900s by a man named John Logie Baird. Obviously it took a while for it to catch on, the real game-changing video stuff was done by the 1970s when JVC launched the iconic video home system.
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On this date, the first news broadcast was aired on the radio. It is believed it started in a Detroit radio station.
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The first morning news program to be broadcast on American television and in the world, when it debuted on January 14, 1952; the earliest national evening news program was The Walter Compton News, a short-lived 15-minute newscast that aired on the DuMont Television Network from 1947 to 1948.
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The first workable prototype of the Internet came in the late 1960s with the creation of ARPANET, or the Advanced Research Projects Agency Network. Originally funded by the U.S. Department of Defense.
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By 1988, Internet provider Prodigy was offering news updates straight to subscribers' home computers every time they signed on. After that more people and companies started to put news updates on the internet.
