history of media

  • Paper is created.
    100 BCE

    Paper is created.

    In china, paper is created to store stories, and information.
  • Printing press is created
    1455

    Printing press is created

    the printing pressed was created to create copies of the bible, and lead to widespread news. it was made by gutenberg.
  • photographs

    photographs

    photographs are created, and now there is a visual concept of what is happening
  • Morse code

    Morse code

    This system of talking breaks the distance barrier.
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph

    It is in text insteaad of dots and dashes, and it breaks the distance barrier again.
  • The telephone!

    The telephone!

    now entire conversations break the distance barrier, and you didnt have to be in the same room as someone to communicate to them.
  • films are invented

    films are invented

    lumiere brothers show the first publicly shown film, and some people are afraid. The picture shown is from the short film, Arival of a train.
  • Radio broadcast

    Radio broadcast

    this was the birth of modern mass media.
  • Television

    Television

    Television is created, and commercial already exist!
  • computers

    computers

    Apple sell its first home computer, and most people think that no one would even want a computer in their house.