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Black and White Television
21-year-old Philo Farnsworth presented his version of the television. The first image projected on his version was a line created when an electron beam scanned pictures. -
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Electronic Age
The invention of the transistor ushered in the electronic age. People harnessed the power of transistors that led to the transistor radio, electronic circuits, and the early computers. In this age, long distance communication became more efficient. -
Walkie Talkie
A walkie-talkie, more formally known as a handheld transceiver (HT), is a hand-held, portable, two-way radio transceiver. Its development during the Second World War has been variously credited to Donald Hings, radio engineer Alfred J. Gross, Henryk Magnuski and engineering teams at Motorola. First used for infantry, similar designs were created for field artillery and tank units, and after the war, walkie-talkies spread to public safety and eventually commercial and jobsite work. -
Photocopier
A photocopier is a machine that makes copies of documents and other visual images onto paper or plastic film quickly and cheaply. Photocopiers were invented by Chester Carlson in 1938. -
Compact Cassette
The Compact Cassette or Musicassette, also commonly called the tape cassette, cassette tape, audio cassette, or simply tape or cassette, is an analog magnetic tape recording format for audio recording and playback. It was developed by the Dutch company Royal Philips in Hasselt, Belgium, by Lou Ottens and his team. It was introduced in September 1963. -
Mobile Phone (Motorola)
A mobile phone is a portable telephone that can make and receive calls over a radio frequency link while the user is moving within a telephone service area. The first mobile phone call was made 40 years ago, on April 3, 1973, by Motorola employee Martin Cooper. -
Compact Discs
The compact disc made by James Russell, is a digital optical disc data storage format that was co-developed by Philips and Sony to store and play digital audio recordings. In August 1982, the first compact disc was manufactured. It was then released in October 1982 and branded as Digital Audio Compact Disc. -
MCl Mail
The MCI Mail service was launched on September 23, 1983, in Washington, D.C., during a press conference that was hosted by MCI's founder and Chairman, William G. McGowan.[1] MCI Mail was the first commercial email service to use the internet. -
Microsoft Windows 1
Windows 1.0 is a graphical operating environment for personal computers, developed by Microsoft. Microsoft released Windows 1.0 on November 20, 1985, as the first version of the Microsoft Windows line. -
World Wide Web
The World Wide Web (WWW), commonly known as the Web, is an information system where documents and other web resources. English scientist Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web in 1989. He wrote the first web browser in 1990 while employed at CERN near Geneva, Switzerland. -
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New Information Age
Digital Age or Informational Age is a period in human history characterized by the shift from traditional industry that the Industrial Revolution brought through industrialization, to an economy based on information computerization. The internet paved the way advanced the used of microelectronics with the invention of personal computers, devices wearable technology. Moreover, voice, image, sounds, and data are digitalized. -
Smartphone
The first smartphone, created by IBM, was invented in 1992 and released for purchase in 1994. It was called the Simon Personal Communicator (SPC). While not very compact and sleek, the device still featured several elements that became staples to every smartphone that followed -
Internet Explorer
Internet Explorer (formerly Microsoft Internet Explorer) commonly abbreviated is a discontinued series of graphical web browsers developed by Microsoft and included in the Microsoft Windows line of operating systems, starting in 1995. -
Digital Video Discs
The DVD is a digital optical disc data storage format invented and developed in 1995 and released in late 1996. The medium can store any kind of digital data and was widely used for software and other computer files as well as video programs watched using DVD players. DVDs offer higher storage capacity than compact discs while having the same dimensions. -
Satellite Radio Launching
Satellite radio, type of digital broadcast, which transmits audio signals over large areas with greater clarity and consistency than conventional radio. In the United States, rivals XM Satellite Radio and Sirius Satellite Radio, launched in 2001 and 2002, respectively. -
Friendster
Friendster was a social networking service based in Mountain View, California, founded by Jonathan Abrams in the year 2002 and
was launched in March 2003. -
Multiply
Multiply was a social networking service with an emphasis on allowing users to share media – such as photos, videos and blog entries – with their "real-world" network. -
Facebook
Facebook, American company offering online social networking services. Facebook was founded in 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, Eduardo Saverin, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes, all of whom were students at Harvard University. -
YouTube
YouTube is an American online video sharing and social media platform owned by Google. It was launched in February 2005 by Steve Chen, Chad Hurley, and Jawed Karim. -
Twitter
Twitter, online microblogging service for distributing short messages among groups of recipients via personal computer or mobile telephone. The service was designed in 2006 by Evan Williams and Biz Stone. -
Tumblr
Tumblr is an American microblogging and social networking website founded by David Karp in 2007 and currently owned by Automattic. The service allows users to post multimedia and other content to a short-form blog. Development of Tumblr began in 2006 during a two-week gap between contracts at David Karp's software consulting company, Davidville. Tumblr was launched in February 2007. -
Instagram
Instagram is an American photo and video sharing social networking service created by Kevin Systrom and Mike Krieger. -
TikTok
TikTok, known in China as Douyin, is a video-sharing focused social networking service owned by Chinese company Byte Dance. TikTok is an international version of Douyin, which was originally released in the Chinese market in September 2016. -
GENERALIZATION
The evolution of mass media occurred due to the need to pass on a message. With the earliest form of media, texts inscribed on stones, cave and pillars to the present form of media, the internet and social media platforms...all of these became necessary of the mankind to stay informed and connected at all times. And it will continue to evolve through time.