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Film and Radio grow in popularity all over the world -
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John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a true television system in London -
German engineer Konrad Zuse (1910 – 1995) builds a computer using 35mm film tape to control programming -
The Television becomes widespread in households all over the world -
The internet was first invented in the late 1960's but it was reserved for University researchers, Military, and the U.S. Government Secret Services -
The growth of video game popularity, video games were no longer seen as "nerdy" -
Mid 1980's Personal Computers (PC's) grew in popularity and became more affordable -
The television show COPS was the very first reality television show in which camera crews followed and captured action throughout their daily job -
The popularity of the internet blew up in the 1990's. It was not as popular as it is today, however that was the beginning of its popularity. It was mostly popular in Universities, and businesses, but it was accessible by every day people. -
Amazon was founded July 4, 1994 and is currently the top ranking E-Commerce and shopping website in the world -
May 1997: The release of the very first social media app, Six Degrees. -
May 5, 2003: The release date of social media app LinkedIn. It took 3 years for the app the make it's mark, and as of Jan, 2020 there are still over 673 million users still on the app. -
August 1, 2003: One of the biggest social medias of it's time. At it's peak in April 2008 MySpace had over 100 million users and still has 36 million users as of May 2021 -
February 4, 2004 was the official release date of the most popular social media app called Facebook which currently has an average of 2.5 billion monthly users -
On YouTube's official launch on December 15, 2005, it was serving more than 2 million website viewers a day. It is currently the second most used form of social media -
July 15, 2006: release date of the social media/blogging app with the trademark bird, Twitter. By 2012 there were more than 100 million users who posted over 330 million tweets a day -
Released September 22, 2010: Netflix is currently the most popular TV Streaming Service which has 209 million subscribers -
October 6, 2010: The launch date of Instagram. As of January 2020 there are nearly 1 billion active users on Instagram -
July 7, 2011: The release date of a social media app like no other. The only app where the main idea is to send pictures to friends. Although there is a messaging option, the main use is for sending pictures. Only one year after it's launch, Snapchat reached 10 million active users -
TikTok was the most downloaded app in the United States in October 2018. TiktTok currently has 732 million monthly users