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Johannes Gutenberg, from Germany, developed the printing press. It revolutionized not only printing, but helped advance science, arts and religion with increasing the availability of educational texts.
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Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien, printed by Johann Carolous in Strasburg Germany. This is considered the first newspaper because it was in print, had multiple articles, included a date and was printed on a regular basis with new articles.
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Marconi established the first transatlantic radio communications service.
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The first televised drama started airing regularly on Septembet 11th 1928
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The term internet was coined (internetworking) to explain the linking between the currently existing networks. This allowed people to globally connect to one another.
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in 2003 Tom Anderson and other former eUniverse employees started MySpace. The first iconic social media website.
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Mark Zuckerberg created Facebook as a means to better connect with those you know.
