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105 A.D. – Chinese paper (didn’t arrive in West for centuries)
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540 B.C. – Public library in Athens
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Jan 9, 600
600 B.C. – Egyptian papyrus scrolls
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Apr 1, 1000
Cave Paintings 37985 B.C.
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Feb 14, 1450
1450 – Gutenberg press (leads to Protestant Revolution, among other things)
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Jun 15, 1517
1517 – Martin Luther nails “Ninety Five Theses” to church door in Wittenberg, Germany
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Sep 23, 1534
1534 – first press in America (Spanish America)
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Dec 22, 1545
1500s – Italian gazettes
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1618 – Dutch Coranto (printed in English in 1620)
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1638 – first press in what would become U.S. (Harvard College)
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1644 – John Milton denounces licensing of the press in Areopagitica
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1665 – Oxford Gazette (first English-language newspaper) in England
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1735 – John Peter Zenger trial
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1741 – First American magazines
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1791 – Bill of Rights (including First Amendment) ratified
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1821 – Saturday Evening Post founded
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1828 – First Native American newspaper in U.S.: Cherokee Phoenix
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1828 – Noah Webster publishes first dictionary
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1833s – New York Sun begins publication; rise of the Penny Press
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1844 – Samuel Morse granted patent for telegraph. First message, May 24: “What hath God wrought?” Second message: “Have you any news?”
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1848 – Associated Press founded
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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 – Heinrich Hertz transmits wireless sound waves
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1888 – Edison lab develops movie camera
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1890 – Linotype machine introduced at newspapers
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1905 – First “nickelodeon”
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1912 – Titanic sinks; leads to Federal Radio Act of 1912
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1919 – RCA founded
RCA has always been a great choice for coumser electronics, they invented the first radio. -
1922 – Reader’s Digest magazine founded
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1932- Silly Symphony, Walt Disney
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1938 – Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” broadcast
This man convinsed many people that aliens had landed on Earth. Many people belived him. -
1939 – TV is a hit at the World’s Fair
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1939 – First FM radio station started in New Jersey
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1941 – First TV commercial advertises a Bulova clock
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1900-1800 B.C. – Semitic alphabet in Egypt
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1951 – “I Love Lucy” debuts; uses film and three cameras
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1954 – Elvis Presley discovered by Sam Phillips of Sun Records
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1958 – videotape introduced
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1963 – Network news expands from 15 minutes to 30 minutes
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1969 – Neal Armstrong walks on moon; we see it on TV
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1974 – People magazine introduced
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1978 – laser disc player introduced
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1982 – USA Today begins publication
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1983 – Sony introduces CD player
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1990s – Internet access opened to general public
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2000 B.C. – Phoenician alphabet
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2001-Apple released the iPod
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2004- Google indexed more than 8 billion pages on the web.
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2005- Youtube became the most popular website on the internet
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2007- Apple introduces the iPhone
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2009- Digital television became the broadcast standard in the U.S.
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2010- Skype provided high-definition video conferencing
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2012- Tablet computers become the fastest adopted technology hardware with a 10% adoption rate in 2.5 years.
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2015 social media
A recent study states that one quarter of the world’s population uses social media. This means that 1,730,000,000 people are posting, pinning, tweeting, vining and instagraming. Every 60 seconds 4.7 million posts are uploaded to Tumblr; 277,000 snaps are shared on Snapchat; and more than five million videos are viewed on YouTube. -
3100 B.C. – Sumerian “writing” system on clay tablets
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4000 B.C. – Sumerian stamp seals
First important step in media
