Media awareness

By Kaylastinemetz

  • The telegraph

    Text communication breaks the distance barrier

  • Bell invents the telephone

    Conversations break the barrier

  • Lumiere Brothers present the 1st publicaly shown film

    Some people are frightened

  • Radio broadcast in the US

    Birth of modern mass media

  • Golden age of film

    Hollywood turns actors into national and int'l celebrities

  • "The Jazz Singer" is the first "talkie"

    Silent stars become memories

  • Television "enters" the home

    Commercials "invade". Today a person watches an average of 20,000 commercials per year

  • Apple sells the first home computers

    Some people say things like... "There is no reason anyone would want a computer in their home" - Ken Olson "640k ought to be enough for anybody" -Bill Gates

  • The Internet

    Global networks revolutionize how people access information

  • Windows 95

    Becomes the standard in business communication, and data

  • Web 2.0

    Media becomes more participatory