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Multimedia Productions History Timeline

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  • Period: Jan 16, 1000 to

    MM Timeline

  • Jan 21, 1020

    – Phoenician alphabet

    – Phoenician alphabet
    2000 B.C.
  • Jan 16, 1031

    Sumerian word system on clay like slabs

  • Jan 16, 1040

    Sumerian stamp seals

    Sumerian stamp seals
  • Jan 21, 1054

    Public Library in Athens

    Public Library in Athens
    540 B.C. – Public library in Athens
  • Jan 21, 1060

    Egyptian papyrus scrolls

    Egyptian papyrus scrolls
    600 B.C. – Egyptian papyrus scrolls
  • Jan 21, 1105

    Chinnese Paper

    Chinnese Paper
    105 A.D. – Chinese paper (didn’t arrive in West for centuries)
  • Jan 21, 1450

    Gutenberg press

    Gutenberg press
    1450 – Gutenberg press (leads to Protestant Revolution, among other things) Project Gutenberg (PG) is a volunteer effort to digitize and archive cultural works, to "encourage the creation and distribution of eBooks".[2] It was founded in 1971 by Michael S. Hart and is the oldest digital library.[3] Most of the items in its collection are the full texts of public domain books. The project tries to make these as free as possible, in long-lasting, open formats that can be used on almost any compu
  • Jan 21, 1500

    Italian gazettes

    Italian gazettes
    Etymology[edit]
    Gazette is a loanword from the French language; in turn, the French word is a 16th-century permutation of the Italian gazeta, which is the name of a particular Venetian coin. Gazeta became an epithet for newspaper during the early and middle 16th century, when the first Venetian newspapers cost one gazeta.[1] (Compare with other vernacularisms from publishing lingo, such as the British penny dreadful and the American dime novel.) This loanword, with its various corruptions, persi
  • Jan 23, 1501

    1500s – Italian gazettes

    1500s – Italian gazettes
    Etymology[edit]
    Gazette is a loanword from the French language; in turn, the French word is a 16th-century permutation of the Italian gazeta, which is the name of a particular Venetian coin. Gazeta became an epithet for newspaper during the early and middle 16th century, when the first Venetian newspapers cost one gazeta.[1] (Compare with other vernacularisms from publishing lingo, such as the British penny dreadful and the American dime novel.) This loanword, with its various corruptions, persi
  • Jan 21, 1517

    Martin Luther nails “Ninety Five Theses” to church door in Wittenberg, Germany

    Martin Luther nails “Ninety Five Theses” to church door in Wittenberg, Germany
    1517 – Martin Luther nails “Ninety Five Theses” to church door in Wittenberg, Germany Luther's Ninety-Five Theses centers on practices within the Catholic Church regarding baptism and absolution. Significantly, the Theses reject the validity of indulgences (remissions of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven). They also view with great cynicism the practice of indulgences being sold, and thus the penance for sin representing a financial transaction rather than genui
  • Jan 23, 1517

    Martin Luther nails

    Martin Luther nails
    1517 – Martin Luther nails
    Luther's Ninety-Five Theses centers on practices within the Catholic Church regarding baptism and absolution. Significantly, the Theses reject the validity of indulgences (remissions of temporal punishment due for sins which have already been forgiven). They also view with great cynicism the practice of indulgences being sold, and thus the penance for sin representing a financial transaction rather than genuine contrition. Luther argues that the sale of indulgences was
  • Jan 21, 1534

    first press in America (Spanish America)

    first press in America (Spanish America)
    1534 – first press in America (Spanish America) A selection of American newspapers from 1885, with portraits of their publishers.
    First row: The Union and Advertiser (William Purcell) - The Omaha Daily Bee (Edward Rosewater) - The Boston Daily Globe (Charles H. Taylor) - Boston Morning Journal (William Warland Clapp) - The Kansas City Times (Morrison Mumford) - The Pittsburgh Dispatch (Eugene M. O'Neill).
    Second row: Albany Evening Journal (John A. Sleicher) - The Milwaukee Sentinel (Horace Rub
  • Jan 23, 1534

    first press in America

    first press in America
    1534 – first press in America A selection of American newspapers from 1885, with portraits of their publishers.
    First row: The Union and Advertiser (William Purcell) - The Omaha Daily Bee (Edward Rosewater) - The Boston Daily Globe (Charles H. Taylor) - Boston Morning Journal (William Warland Clapp) - The Kansas City Times (Morrison Mumford) - The Pittsburgh Dispatch (Eugene M. O'Neill).
    Second row: Albany Evening Journal (John A. Sleicher) - The Milwaukee Sentinel (Horace Rublee) - The Philade

  • 1618 – Dutch Coranto (printed in English in 1620)

    Corantos were early informational broadsheets, precursors to newspapers. Beginning around the 14th century, a system developed where letters of news and philosophical discussion would be sent to a central collecting point to be bundled and sent around to the various correspondents. The banking house of Fugger had an organized system of collecting and routing these letters, which often could be seen by outsiders. This system would not die until the 18th century. The term "newspaper" was not coine

  • 1638 – first press in what would become U.S. (Harvard College)

  • 1644 – John Milton denounces licensing of the press in Areopagitica

  • 1665 – Oxford Gazette (first English-language newspaper) in England

  • Dutch Coranto

    1618 – Dutch Coranto (printed in English in 1620)

  • 1690 – First American newspaper: Publick Occurrences (lasts one issue)

  • 1704 – First successful American newspaper: The Boston News-Letter

  • 1735 – John Peter Zenger trial

  • 1741 – First American magazines

  • 1783-1833 – Rise of Party Press

  • 1791 – Bill of Rights (including First Amendment) ratified

  • 1798 – Alien and Sedition Acts passed

  • 1821 – Saturday Evening Post founded

  • 1827 – First African-American newspaper in U.S.: Freedom’s Journal

  • 1828 – First Native American newspaper in U.S.: Cherokee Phoenix

  • 1828 – Noah Webster publishes first dictionary

  • 1828 – First Native American newspaper in U.S.: Cherokee Phoenix

  • 1828 – Noah Webster publishes first dictionary

  • 1833s – New York Sun begins publication; rise of the Penny Press

  • 1833s – New York Sun begins publication; rise of the Penny Press

  • 1844 – Samuel Morse granted patent for telegraph. First message, May 24: “What hath God wrought?” Second message: “Have you any news?”

  • 1894 – Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World starts daily women’s page

  • 1848 – Associated Press founded

  • 1860-1865 – Civil War brings home “necessity” of news

  • 1877 – Thomas Edison invents the “talking machine”

  • 1888 – Edison lab develops movie camera

  • 1890 – Linotype machine introduced at newspapers

  • 1891 –Edison patents Kinetoscope – first parlor opens 1894 in New York

  • 1891 –Edison patents Kinetoscope – first parlor opens 1894 in New York

  • 1899 – “Stunt girl” Nellie Bly circles the world

  • Semitic alphabet in egypt

    1900-1800 B.C. – Semitic alphabet in Egypt

  • Guglielmo Marconi sends and receives radio message across the Atlantic (Morse code, point to point)

  • First “nickelodeon”

  • Reginald Fessenden broadcasts voice

  • Newsreels begin; continue into 1960s

  • Titanic sinks; leads to Federal Radio Act of 1912

  • World War I propaganda, censorship, technology

  • D.W. Griffith releases Birth of a Nation, first full-length film to significantly impact

  • Charlie Chaplin becomes the first entertainer to earn $1 million

  • RCA founded

  • First radio stations in U.S. and Canada

  • “Jazz Journalism” tabloids

  • Reader’s Digest magazine founded

  • Time magazine debuts

  • A.C. Nielsen company begin ratings

  • AT&T links two radio stations for first “network”

  • Lee de Forest shows first “talkie”

  • Federal Radio Act sets up commission to regulate airwaves

  • Philo Farnsworth applies for electronic TV patents

  • The Jazz Singer released

  • Academy Awards given for the first time (Wings wins Best Picture)

  • “Golden Age of Movies”

  • Eleanor Roosevelt insists on women-only press conferences (“the Roosevelt Rule”)

  • 1934 – Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established1936 – Life magazine debuts

  • Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” broadcast

  • First FM radio station started in New Jersey

  • 1939 – TV is a hit at the World’s Fair

  • 1941 – First TV commercial advertises a Bulova clock

  • 1941 – Welles’s Citizen Kane released; sometimes called the best movie of all time

  • 1942 – John H. Johnson starts Negro Digest; would later found Ebony and Jet

  • 1947 – Red Scare leads to congressional investigation of Hollywood

  • 1948 – Supreme Court hands down Paramount Decision

  • 1950s – “Golden Age of Television”

  • 1950 – Red Channels: The Communist Influence in Radio and Television ruins careers

  • 1951 – “I Love Lucy” debuts; uses film and three cameras

  • 1952 – FCC lifts “the Freeze” imposed in 1948

  • 1952 – Eisenhower runs 20-second campaign spot

  • 1953 – Playboy magazine introduced; Marilyn Monroe is first centerfold

  • 1953 – Playboy magazine introduced; Marilyn Monroe is first centerfold

  • 1953 – TV Guide magazine debuts; Lucille Ball and her newborn son on first cover

  • 1954 – Edward R. Murrow’s “See It Now” focuses on Joseph McCarthy

  • 1954 – Elvis Presley discovered by Sam Phillips of Sun Records

  • 1958 – videotape introduced

  • 1959 – Quiz show scandal rocks television industry

  • 1960 – Kennedy-Nixon debate

  • Late 1960s – Internet formed for exchange of ideas, not available to general public

  • 1963 – Betty Friedan writes The Feminine Mystique

  • 1963 – Network news expands from 15 minutes to 30 minute

  • 1964 – The Beatles first tour America

  • 1964 – New York Times v. Sullivan gives press new right to criticize public officials

  • 1965-1970s – Second “New Journalism” period; literary journalism; underground newspapers

  • 1967 – Congress passes Public Broadcasting Act; PBS formed

  • 1969 – Neal Armstrong walks on moon; we see it on TV

  • 1969 – ABC introduces made-for-TV movies

  • 1970 – Feminists stage sit-in at Ladies Home Journal

  • 1972 – Ms. magazine launched

  • 1972 – Life magazine died; came back as monthly from 1978 to 2000

  • 1972 – Boylan v. New York Times sex discrimination lawsuit filed

  • 1972 – Cigarette advertising banned from TV

  • 1974 – Richard Nixon resigns, a result of Watergate coverage

  • 1974 – People magazine introduced

  • sony Betamax home videocassette recorder introduced

  • 1975 – Home Box Office (formed by Time, Inc. in 1972) begins satellite distribution of TV; Ted Turner starts first “superstation”

  • 1976 – Matsushita introduces VHS

  • 1978 – laser disc player introduced; largely a failure, but opened door for CDs

  • 1979 – Sony Walkman appears in Japan

  • 1979 – Iranian hostage crisis leads to “Nightline” and loss by Jimmy Carter to a former radio broadcaster and movie actor

  • 1980 – “Who Shot J.R.?” on “Dallas” is first TV season-ending cliff-hanger

  • 1981 – MTV (Music Television) first airs; first video is “Video Killed the Radio Star”

  • 1982 – USA Today begins publication

  • 1982 – Home shopping network debuts

  • 1983 – Sony introduces CD player

  • 1990s – Internet access opened to general public; changes everything

  • 1996 – Telecommunications Act of 1996 brings V-chip, deregulation, and dramatic increase in mergers and takeovers