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1860-1865 – Civil War brings home “necessity” of news
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1877 – Thomas Edison invents the “talking machine”
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1888 – George Eastman introduces the Kodak camera
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1888 – Heinrich Hertz transmits wireless sound waves
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1890 – Linotype machine introduced at newspapers
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1894 – Joseph Pulitzer’s New York World starts daily women’s page
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1971 – First email delivered
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1992 – Tripod opened as a community online for college students and young adults.
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1997 – The World Wide Web (WWW) had one million (1 000 000) websites
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1997 – Blogging begins
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1998 – Google opens as a major Internet search engine and index.
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2000 – Seventy million computers connected to the internet
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2001 – Wikipedia started
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2004 – Facebook, another social networking website, was started for students at Harvard College. It was referred to at the time as a college version of Friendster.
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2005 – YouTube started storing and retrieving videos.
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2009 – Facebook ranked as the most-used social network worldwide with more than 200 million. The site's traffic was twice that of MySpace.
