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History of Media

By Brie W

  • Photography

    Photography
    People could now capture actual visual records of people in history. We could now save real moments in time.

  • The Dead of Antietam

    The Dead of Antietam
    Matthew Brady’s New York Studio had a sign outside of it that had photographs of battlefield corpses. Showing the deadliest single day of the entire war.

  • The Telephone

    The Telephone
    The telephone was invented in 1876. This broke the barrier of distance in conversations between people miles away from each other.

  • The First Film

    The First Film
    The Lumiere Brothers present the first ever publicly shown film. It frightened some people.

  • The First Radio Broadcast

    The First Radio Broadcast
    The first radio broadcast gave birth to the modern mass media.

  • The Jazz Singer

    The Jazz Singer
    The first talkie was created. Now you could hear and see the film.

  • The Television

    The Television
    The television enters homes and commercials “invade”.

  • Apple’s First Sold Computers

    Apple’s First Sold Computers
    Apple sells it’s first home computers.

  • The Internet

    The Internet
    The internet was invented in the 1990s. Now people could reach information thousands of times fast this way. This would revolutionize communication, shopping, research and much more.

  • Windows 95

    Windows 95
    Windows revolutionizes the way we communicate and conduct business.