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On December 24, 1906, at 9 PM EST, Reginald transmitted the first human voice over the radio from Brant Rock -
Commercial radio in Canada began with Montréal station XWA. From its first broadcasts until the creation of a public system in 1922, -
The first official, paid television advertisement was broadcast in the United States on July 1, 1931, over New York station WNBT (now WNBC) before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia Phillies. -
The world's first television commercial aired on July 1, 1941 during a game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and the Philadelphia Phillies. The ad was for Bulova Watches, a company still in operation today. It lasted for only 10 seconds and aired on a local channel in New York called WNBT -
The national TV Guide's first issue was released on April 3, 1953, accumulating a total circulation of 1,560,000 copies that were sold in the ten U.S. cities where it was distributed -
Truth or Consequences was the first game show to air on commercially licensed television; the CBS Television Quiz followed shortly thereafter as the first to be regularly scheduled. The first episode of each aired in 1963 as an experimental broadcast. -
The 1970s was the first decade in the history of the video game industry. The 1970s saw the development of some of the earliest video games, chiefly in the arcade game industry, but also several for the earliest video game consoles and personal computers. -
The first CD player, released by Sony on Oct. 1, 1982. It originally cost $1,000 in 1982 -
January 1, 1994 is considered the official birthday of the Internet. Prior to this, the various computer networks did not have a standard way to communicate with each other. -
The first social media site to reach a million monthly active users was MySpace – it achieved this milestone around 2004. This is arguably the beginning of social media as we know it -
Online gaming broke the internet in early 2010s