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1923 - Time, The First News Magazine
Briton Hadden and Henry Luce created Time magazine in 1923 making it the first weekly news magazine in the United States. The first issue featured Joseph G Cannon, a man retiring from congress at age 86 after service 23 terms in the House of Representatives. -
CBS and NBC Begin First Newscasts
In 1947, CBS launched Television News With Douglas Edwards and NBC broadcast Camel News caravan (sponsored by Camel cigarettes) with John Cameron Swayze. “The first broadcasts were extremely primitive by today’s standards. It was mainly just sitting at a desk and talking. We didn’t have any pictures at first. Later we began to get a little simple news film, but it wasn’t much.” Said Swayze. -
Rise of FM Radio
The first FM stations in the 60s played primarily instrumental music; they were targeting shopping centers. Top 40 radio began arriving on the FM band in the 1970s as FM radio continued to become more and more popular. -
VHS-format Videocassettes
The Video Home System (VHS) is an analog recording videotape-based cassette standard developed by Victor Company of Japan (JVC). The VHS tape remained the most popular name in the home video industry until the DVD format replaced VHS as the preferred method of distribution after 2000. -
MTV Debuts
On Saturday, August 1, 1981 MTV launched with the words “Ladies and gentlemen, rock and roll,” over footage of the first Space Shuttle launch countdown of Columbia, which took place earlier that year. The first music video shown on MTV was The Buggles’ “Video Killed the Radio Star”. The effect of MTV on the public was immediate; within months record stores were selling albums that were being played on MTV but not the radio. -
Microsoft Internet Explorer is Launched
Internet Explorer is a series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included as part of the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. The first version of Internet Explorer made its debut on August 16th, 1995. This was the beginning to the huge spread of popularized Internet usage. -
Google Launched
Google began in March 1996 as a research project by Larrge Page and Sergey Brin, Ph.D. students at Stanford University who were working on the Stanford Digital Library Project (SDLP). The SDLP’s goal was “to develop the enabling technologies for a single, integrated and universal digital library”. Originally the search engine used the Stanford website with the domain google.standford.edu. The domain google.com was registered on September 15, 1997. -
Rise of Cell Phone Use and Cellular Technology
In 1990 there were 12.4 million cell phone subscribers, (0.25% of the then world population), in 2002 there were 1.174 billion cell phone subscribers (19% of the then world population) and in 2010 there were 4 billion cell phone subscribers (67% of the then world population). This increase in handheld technology led to a huge expansion in communication. The continued development and demand of cell phones has led to a giant increase in immediate news capabilities. -
Facebook
Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg and some of his college roommates and fellow Harvard University students. The founders had initially limited the website’s membership to Hardvard students, but later expanded it to colleges in the Boston area, the Ivy League, and Stanford University. It gradually added support for students at various universities before it opened to high-school students. Facebook has grown into the most used social media site on the market today. -
YouTube Launched
YouTube is a video-sharing website created by three former PayPal employees in February 2005 and owned by Google since late 2006. Through YouTube users can upload, view and share videos. The company is based in San Bruno, California and has become one of the most used search engines on the Internet.
