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Jan 1, 1439
Invention of the Printing Press
Allowed for mass Printing of documents. Most people can't read, used to Print Bibles -
Publication of the first Journals
The Philisophical Journal of the Royal society. Still most people can't read. Journals published for Scientists, inventors, Educated people. Further enhancing science -
First Magazine Published in London
Published Monthly, shows printing tech has improved General interest shows wider audience so more Literacy. Still most people can't read. -
Major Newspaper in the UK
Technology now up to printing Daily much as it is Today. This allowed people to get information the day after an event speeding events up -
Telephone invented
Allowed real time communication over long distances. Speeds up commerce -
Home Telephones available
Allowed Public to talk directly (if rich) -
BBC Radio begings broadcasting
This is the first mass media very popular for transmiting information directly into peoples homes Hitler uses it to get support -
BBC Begins broadcasting T.V in the UK
even more powerful form of mass media state owned. BBC creater to inform educate and entertain. The rise of correspoundents able to record wars and big events by 2010 24million in UK -
Invention of the internet
Developed by the military so that if one military base was destroyed others could contact each others via a communication 'net' -
Cable TV
Widely available in the UK allows for a lot more TV channels than the 3 Terrestral that existed at the time -
Mobile Phone
First mobile phones goes on sales in the UK. Cost around £2,000 half hour talk time brought for busines bag of sugar -
Satellite TV (SKY)
widely available to UK public/high tech beamed from satellities, hundreds of channels allows Correspondents to report from events live as they happen -
Text message
First text message sent 1992 today most popular form of instant communication, 1.2billion texts are sent per week in UK -
World Wide Web
Used to find information and also to buy and sell things -
3g mobile
Able to take pictures and videos this allows members of the public to be their own reporters instantly capturing. Also you can share images any where -
Web 2.0
Becomes about social network for example bebo and myspace -
4g mobile phones
High speed internet acsess. Everyone is pplugged into the system -
Web 3.0
Finds, organises and arranges things on your behalf via clouds
