Evolution of Media

By khornick
  • Jan 1, 1440

    First Printing Press

    First Printing Press
    Created by Johann Gutenberg. Without the invention of the printing press we would not have all the books we have today, books would have to be written by hand and were sold for a very large amount of money.
  • 1505

    First Book

    First Book

  • First Published Newspaper

    First Published Newspaper
    In 1605, the first printed weekly newspaper to be published in Antwerp was called Relation.

  • First Telephone

    First Telephone
    They were spoken by Alexander Graham Bell, inventor of the telephone, when he made the first call on March 10, 1876, to his assistant, Thomas Watson: "Mr. Watson--come here--I want to see you."

  • First Vinyl

  • First Radio

    First Radio

  • First Television

    First Television
    On 25 March 1925, Baird gave the first public demonstration of televised silhouette images in motion, at Selfridge's Department Store in London.

  • First Cellphone

    First Cellphone
    The world's first mobile phone call was made on April 3, 1973, when Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, called a rival telecommunications company and informed them he was speaking via a mobile phone.

  • First IPod

    First IPod

  • Twitter

    Twitter
    The official telling of Twitter's founding goes like this: Ex-Googler Evan Williams had a startup called Odeo. ... When Apple launched iTunes podcasting, and made Odeo's podcasting platform irrelevant, Evan and Biz and an Odeo employee named Jack Dorsey decided to create something called Twitter instead.