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Athens Public Library
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Sumerian Stamp Seals
In early civilization, Sumerians engraved pictures on stones, glass, or ceramic. They used an engraved cylinder to roll pictures out onto clay. People used them as signatures, magic amulets, and jewlery. These stones are very important to history because they tell stories past civilizations and help historians in their work. -
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Egyptian Papyrus Scrolls
Egyptian papyrus scrolls was essentially the first paper. Egyptians found papyrus plants, which were a great alternative to stone. Papyrus was used for thousands of years because it was so easy to carry around (especially compared to the heavy stones that had been used before). -
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Semetic Alphabet in Egypt
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Sumarian Words on Clay Slabs
Sumarians used stylus's made of reed to ingrave words on wet clay slabs. The Sumarians dried the tablets in the sun if they wanted them to be reusable, because if you were to wet the slabs they could be recycled. Special slabs were fired in a kiln and because very hard and durable. These tablets are very important to history because they show what life was like in ancient times. -
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Phoenician Alphabet
The Phoenician Alphabet was formed so that people could easily track and record trades. This alphabet had no vowels, but it had 22 consanents. The alphabet looks like little pictures to us, but to ancient people they made enough sense not to need any vowels; people spoke the language so much that they knew what went in between the consanents without seeing it. -
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Chinese Paper
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Feb 20, 1450
Gutenberg Press
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Feb 20, 1500
Italian Gazettes
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Feb 20, 1534
First Press in America (Spanish America)
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John Milton denounces licensing of the press in Areopagitica
John Milton wrote a pamphlet called Aeropagitica. It "caused quite a stir", and many wanted it burned. Random fact about Milton: He married a seventeen year old girl when he was 35, and then on top of that he got BORED of her after ONE MONTH and sent her back to her parents! What a crazy man!!!! -
First Newspaper In English - Oxford Gazette (England)
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America's First Newspaper - Publick Occurrences
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First Successful Newspaper in America - The Boston News-Letter
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John Peter Zenger Trial
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First American Magazines
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Rise of Party Press
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Bill of Rights (Including First Amendment) Ratified
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Alien and Sedition Acts passed
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Saturday Evening Post Founded
The Saturday Evening Post was published once a week for quite some time, and then twice a week, then quarterly, and then finally only twice a month. So as you can see, it is not very consistent!!! -
First African-American newspaper in U.S.: Freedom’s Journal
"Freedman's Journal" was the first newspaper in America published by an African American. This newspaper was operated by a couple of black men in New York City. This newspaper got started when slavery ended, and it's purpose was to counter other racist newspapers. -
First Native American newspaper in U.S.: Cherokee Phoenix
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Noah Webster Publishes First Dictionary
Websters Dictionaries are commonly used in classrooms, libraries, colleges, and more. They are the the most popular brand of dictionary, and it is no wonder why. Websters makes not only dictionaries, but thesauruses, translators, and lots more! And this is all thanks to Noah Webster, who published his very first dictionary at 70 years old. -
New York Sun begins publication; rise of the Penny Press
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Associated Press Founded
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Thomas Edison invents the “talking machine”
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Edison Lab Develops Movie Camera
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George Eastman introduces the Kodak camera
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Heinrich Hertz transmits wireless sound waves
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Linotype machine introduced at newspapers
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“Stunt girl” Nellie Bly circles the world
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Muckraking magazines
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First “nickelodeon”
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Reginald Fessenden broadcasts voice
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Newsreels begin; continue into 1960s
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Titanic sinks; leads to Federal Radio Act of 1912
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First radio stations in U.S. and Canada
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Time Magazine Debuts
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Semitic Alphabet in Egypt
1900-1800 BC
The Semetic Alphabet in Egypt was very similar to the Phoenician Alphabet. Each image symbolized a picture as well as a letter. This alphabet was based on the egyptian alphabet, but the symbols used are very different. -
Apple Founded
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Google Founded
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Wikipedia Founded
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First iPod
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Myspace Founded
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Founding of Facebook
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YouTube Founded
The founding of YouTube changed the media significantly. With YouTube, anyone can post videos online for public viewing. Now, you can learn anything and everything from watching YouTube videos! People use YouTube to express themselves, teach others, learn from others, get a laugh, listen to music, and more! -
Twitter Founded
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iPod Touch First Sold
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Release of the iPhone
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Release of the Macbook Air
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Release of the iPad
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Instagram Founded
Instargram is a popular social networking site that has permanently changed social media.
