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Magazines
In the early 1900’s, magazine publishers were focusing and starting off topics such as parenting, traveling and sewing. Magazines were published by new authors and were becoming huge in selling. Harper’s Weekly was different, they created stories and were liked. Harper’s Weekly was the top selling magazines that were influencial to many back in the early 1900’s. -
Moving Picture World
In the early 1910’s, the Early Cinema collection is the Moving Picture World that first came out in 1907, it became popular in the 1910’s. Moving Picture World was the earliest motion picture industry. Through this time, short films increased it’s time to longer films. -
Radio
During the 1920’s, the radio was considered by many, the most powerful item to communicate. By the end of the 1920’s, 60% of Americans had a radio to listen to in their homes. The radios were used to listen to current news, events that happened, the president talk, the World Series, music, lectures and more. The radio was considered a good thing for most people because it created a greater economy and was a big advance in technology. -
Advance in Radios
During the 1930’s, it was a golden age for the radios. As time went on, radios became cheaper and were made smaller. More families were getting the radios for their families to come together in the family room, on average. Many families listened to inspirational people. In 1931, 12 million American households had radios for their family. By 1939, radios increased drastically to 28 million American households that owned a radio. -
Television
During the 1940’s, the television was introduced at the New York World’s Fair. Some of the earlier programs was a documentary on Pearl Harbour in 1941. Many programs streamed live in bigger cities like New York City. Many families were still using radios and many didn’t have televisions to watch. There were few people that did own a television and there were very few channels. -
Television Advances
In the 1960’s, most people were still getting their news and communication through radios. The radios have progressed in quality and the so have the televisions. Less than 15% of Americans had colored television. The number of Americans that had televisions were rising and that became the “decade of television news.” -
JVC and VHS
In the 1970’s, many writers say that was the least exciting decade, but there were some exciting things. Sony launched the JVC and the VHS, video tape cassettes. The 1970’s was the beginning of when television executives realized that television could be used to educate kids. This is when popular kids shows such as “Sesame Street” and “Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood” were born. -
MTV
In the 1980’s, viewers had more options on how they wanted to watch or listen to news and events. There were more channels on the television and more people had the colored television. Sony released camcorders and people could record without having to just take a photo. Cable News and MTV started their programs and caught everyone’s attention to watch. -
World Wide Web
In the 1990’s, the World Wide Web was available and became so popular, it changed the world. Email communication was also born and was available. Email changed the way people communicated. -
Social Media
During the 2000’s, many people had computers by then. Social Media was introduced, Twitter and YouTube came out and everyone used it. Phones were advancing drastically and iPhones were invented. iPhones were and are used everyday to communicate and use social media, applications, websites and read news articles. To this day, we still use the same technology, but it has technologically advanced.
