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Film and Radio Increasing Popularity
Film and Radio grow in popularity all over the world -
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Media arts
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Beginning of television
John Logie Baird, a Scottish inventor, gives the first public demonstration of a true television system in London -
German Engineer Builds a Computer Using 35mm Film Tape
German engineer Konrad Zuse (1910 – 1995) builds a computer using 35mm film tape to control programming -
Widespread Television
The Television becomes widespread in households all over the world -
Invention of the Internet
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 -
Video Game Popularity
The growth of video game popularity, video games were no longer seen as "nerdy" -
Personal Computer Popularity
Mid 1980's Personal Computers (PC's) grew in popularity and became more affordable -
First Reality TV Show
The television show COPS was the very first reality television show in which camera crews followed and captured action throughout their daily job -
Internet
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
Amazon was founded July 4, 1994 and is currently the top ranking E-Commerce and shopping website in the world -
Six Degrees
May 1997: The release of the very first social media app, Six Degrees. -
LinkedIn
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. -
MySpace
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 -
Facebook
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 -
YouTube
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 -
Twitter
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 -
Netflix
Released September 22, 2010: Netflix is currently the most popular TV Streaming Service which has 209 million subscribers -
Instagram
October 6, 2010: The launch date of Instagram. As of January 2020 there are nearly 1 billion active users on Instagram -
Snapchat
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
TikTok was the most downloaded app in the United States in October 2018. TiktTok currently has 732 million monthly users