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Jan 1, 1440
Printing Press
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First American Newspaper
Printed by Richard Pierce and edited by Benjamin Harris in Boston -
Phonograph Invented
Invented by Thomas Edison, cylinder was originally made with wax, only lasted 3-4 plays -
Billboard Magazine Invented
Billboard began as a trade paper for the bill posting industry - began to cover radio in the 1920's -
First Radio Signal
Guglielmo Marconi sent the first radio signal -
ASCAP
First performing rights organization - American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers (SESAC - 1930, BMI - 1939) -
First PC
IBM publicly introduced the 701 -
First US analog mobile phone call
Dr. Martin Cooper of Motorola - "The brick" weighed 2 pounds, offered just a half-hour of talk time for every recharging and sold for $3995. -
MTV's first day
Video Killed the Radio Star by The Buggles was the first video shown -
Napster
Peer-to-peer file sharing - Shawn Fanning, John Fanning, and Sean Parker.