My Media Timeline

  • Television

    Television
    Television:an electronic system of transmitting transient images of fixed or moving objects together with sound over a wire or through space by apparatus that converts light and sound into electrical waves and reconverts them into visible light rays and audible sound
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    telephone is a telecommunications device that permits two or more users to conduct a conversation when they are too far apart to be heard directly. A telephone converts sound, typically and most efficiently the human voice, into electronic signals that are transmitted via cables and other communication channels to another telephone which reproduces the sound to the receiving user.
  • Radio

    Radio
    the wireless transmission and reception of electric impulses or signals by means of electromagnetic waves
    b: the use of these waves for the wireless transmission of electric impulses into which sound
  • Newspaper

    Newspaper
    a paper that is printed and distributed usually daily or weekly and that contains news, articles of opinion, features, and advertising
    2: an organization that publishes a newspaper
    3: the paper of a newspaper : NEWSPRINT
  • Cellphone

    Cellphone
    cellphone
    a phone with access to a cellular radio system so it can be used over a wide area, without a physical connection to a network; a mobile phone.
  • Computer

    Computer
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    Don't miss an insight. Subscribe to Techopedia for free. Dictionary A computer is a machine or device that performs processes, calculations and operations based on instructions provided by a software or hardware program. It has the ability to accept data (input), process it, and then produce outputs. Modern computers are electronic devices used for a variety of purposes ranging from browsing the web, writing documents, editing videos, creating applications, playing video games