News

Lesson 2.1

By AndrewBrowne
  • 1440

    Invention of Printing Press

    Invention of Printing Press
    Invented by Johannes Gutenberg, it was used up until the 20th century.

  • Motion Picture Cinemas

    Motion Picture Cinemas
    The first one was shown in New York City using 10 kinetoscopes.

  • First public radio broadcast

    First public radio broadcast
    Done by a radio station in PA, this was one of the starting points of "digital news"

  • TIME Magazine

    TIME Magazine
    Still going on to this day, TIME was created by Briton Hadden and Henry Luce.

  • The First TV

    The First TV
    Philo Farnsworth is the one who invented our current system of TV

  • Satellites

    Satellites
    The satellites are used for a number of things including communication, military, weather, and research.

  • The First Laptops

    The First Laptops
    The first laptops were created by Adam Osborne, and weighed roughly 25 pounds.

  • Smartphones

    Smartphones
    The first phones with touchscreens, it also came with a calendar and some game functions.

  • Creation of Major Social Media

    Creation of Major Social Media
    With the creation of Facebook, a lot of people were able to start posting virtually anything and have it go out to the public.

  • Present Day

    Present Day
    Nowadays, we have almost unlimited access to any form of news we want. That comes with a drawback, though, seeing as anybody can make a post about anything on social media and ruin someone else's life (Scott Cawthon, Gilbert Gottfried, Ashley Payne, etc.) It's both a blessing and a curse to have access to this kind of social power.