Timeline: The Evolution of Media

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3300 B. C. Hieroglyphics

Egyptians perfect hieroglyphics

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1500 B.C. Alphabet

1500 B. C. Semites devise the alphabet

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1000 B.C. Paper

1000 B. C. Egyptian papyrus, early form of paper

Sep 16, 1446

1446 A. D. Johannes Gutenberg

Johannes Gutenberg introduces moveable type printing press in Germany

Mar 1, 1600

Colonial Period: 1600's

First newspapers in Europe, Puritans establis

Jun 10, 1827

First Photograph

On a summer day in 1827, Joseph Nicephore Niepce made the first photographic image with a camera obscura.

Jun 19, 1894

Radio

1894 Guglielmo Marconi invents the radio

Jul 12, 1925

Television Broadcast

Charles Jenkins publicly performed his first television broadcast transmission, from Anacosta, Virginia to Washington in June, 1925.
Charles Jenkins had been promoting and researching mechanical television since 1894, when he published an article in the "Electrical Engineer", describing a method of electrically transmitting pictures.

Apr 20, 1991

Internet (WorldWideWeb)

creationCerf’s protocol transformed the Internet into a worldwide network. Throughout the 1980s, researchers and scientists used it to send files and data from one computer to another. However, in 1991 the Internet changed again. That year, a computer programmer in Switzerland named Tim Berners-Lee introduced the World Wide Web: an Internet that was not simply a way to send files from one place to another but was itself a “web” of information that anyone on the Internet could retrieve. Berners-L

Sep 7, 1998

Google

Google was co-founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin, and was first incorporated as a privately held company on September 7, 1998. Eric Schmidt has been Google's chief executive officer since Larry Page stepped down in 2001.