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Printing presses allowed documents and books to be printed en masse, rather than to be hand written.
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The Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society was published, this was the first journal ever published.
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The Gentlemans Magazine was the first magazine ever published. As you can see it differs greatly from todays celebrity filled affairs.
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The Times was the first major newspaper, after beginning life in 1785 under the name "The Daily Universal Register"
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The first telephone was invented by Alexander Bell, who made a phone call to his assistant Thomas Watson, saying "Watson come here I need to speak to you"
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Telephones became more like the ones we see today and started appearing in peoples houses.
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The British Broadcasting Corporation begins broadcasting into peoples homes via wireless radios
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Television sets appear in peoples homes
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The internet was invented by the US military
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Cable tv became widely available, broadcasting a larger range of channels than regular terrestrial sets.
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The first mobile phones went on sale, these were much different from todays compact and lightweight affairs, they were big bricks which were designed to be carried around in a briefcase.
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Satellite tv (such as sky) produced even more stations than cable, this works by getting signal from a satellite beamed onto a dish that gets attached to your house.
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Sms (short message service) are messages that are less than 160 characters.
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The world wide web becomes available to access from a home pc via your phone line.
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3g allowed people to access the internet through 3g on a mobile device
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web 2.0 comes into use, this enhances the capabilities of social networking sites.
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4g is Ultra fast mobile internet for the latest smart mobile phones
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web 3.0 begins to emerge, Intergrated internet which organises things automatically via clouds.
