Media Timeline

By MatthewLaPenna
  • Jan 4, 1440

    First Printing Press

    First Printing Press
    It took Johann Gutenberg five years to finally release the first working printing press. Without the invention of the printing press we would not have all the books we have today, books would have to be written by hand and were sold for a very large amount of money.

  • First Weekly Newspaper

    First Weekly Newspaper
    Acta Diurna' was the first newspaper published in Rome, around 59 BC. In 1605, the first printed weekly newspaper to be published in Antwerp was called Relation. Cite: Patil, Anil Mahipati. “When and where was the first newspaper published? - Times of India.” The Times of India, The Times of Inida, 21 Oct. 2007, timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/sunday-times/When-and-where-was-the-first-newspaper-published/articleshow/2477418.cms. Accessed 31 Aug. 2017.

  • The Zoopraxiscope

    The Zoopraxiscope
    The Zoopraxiscope was the first "camera". It was created by Eadweard Muybridge. It displayed images from rotating glass disks in rapid succession to give the impression of motion. https://www.google.com/search?q=The+Zoopraxiscope&source=lnms&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwi56t_MrYLWAhXM5SYKHTzEC3MQ_AUICSgA&biw=1136&bih=715&dpr=1

  • The first telephone

    The first telephone
    Alexander Graham Bell was the first to get a patent for the telephone. The telephone allows you to speak on a machine and have your voice hear on another machine in a separate location.

  • First camera

    First camera
    Wordsworth Donisthorpe was the first to patent the video camera.
    The video camera has impacted media greatly. Cameras are used to record anything, we watch several videos everyday and they where all done with the video camera.

  • First film

    First film
    The first film was The Horse In Motion, created by Eadweard Muybridge. This started a huge industry of movie making that has improved a great deal over time.

  • First Television

    First Television
    Philo Taylor Farnsworth invented the first made television, tv is one of the biggest media broadcasters today.

  • First computer

    First computer
    The first ever programmable system was created by Konrad Zuse. The computer has helped shape todays media greatly because computers control almost everything we use in society today.

  • First regularly scheduled televised news channel

    First regularly scheduled televised news channel
    Lowell Thomas hosted the first-ever, regularly scheduled news broadcast on television. It could only be watched in New York and you had to be on pioneer NBC television station WNBT

  • iTV

    The first streaming service. It was created in Hong
    Kong by a telecom firm. It had fewer than 8,000 streaming options while Netflix has over 93,000 options. It was a $1.5 billion dollar project.

  • Myspace

    Myspace
    the first public social media platform attracting 75.9 million visitors between 2005-2008.

  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook is a social media platform that help connect the world. Mark Zuckerberg, along with Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes where the creators of facebook.

  • First Iphone

    First Iphone
    Created by Steve Jobs, the Iphone was an instant hit being one of the first affordable and portable touchscreen devices.

  • Instagram

    Instagram
    Instagram was created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. It is a social media platform that you can share photos and videos with the world. This has helped news get around and help people interact in a new way.