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Mass media History

  • 1440

    1440s

    1440s
    Gutenberg invention of the press
  • 1665

    1665
    Oxford Gazette (first English language newspaper) in English
  • 1704

    1704
    First succesful American newspaper. The Boston News-Letter
  • 1741

    1741
    First American magazines. The American Magazine was the first magazine published in the American colonies, edited by John Webbe in Philadelphia
  • 1860-1865

    1860-1865
    Civil War photography teams roam battlefields
  • 1848

    1848
    Associated Press founded
  • 1888

    1888
    Edinson Lab develops movie camara
  • 1890s

    Edison develops mass market photograph
  • 1901

    1901
    Guglielmo Marconi sendas and receives radio message across the Atlantic (morse code, point to point)
  • 1920

    1920
    First radio station in U.S.A and Canada
  • 1927

    1927
    Philo Farnsworth invents TV.
    First “Talkie” film- The Jazz Singer with Al Jolson
  • 1928

    1928
    The first Academy Awards for motion pictures (Wings wins Best Picture)
  • 1939

    1939
    TV is a hit at the World´s Fair
  • Late 1960s

    Internet formed for exchange of ideas, not available to general public
  • 1967

    1967
    Congress passes Public Broadcasting Act; PBS formed
  • 1969

    1969
    Neal Armstrong walks on moon; broadcast around the world
  • 1970s

    1970s
    Microsoft presents
  • 1975

    1975
    Home Box (formed by Time Inc. in 1972) begins satellite distribution of TV; TEd Turner stars first "superstation" using cable
  • 1981

    1981
    MTV (Music Television) first airs; first mideo is "Video Killed the Radio Star"
  • 1990s

    Internet access opened to general public and rise of mobile phone technology
  • 2004

    2004
    Facebook was created
  • 2009

    2009
    Nokia N97 End of the legend of Nokia
  • 2010

    2010
    IPhone 4s, introduced to the new world of technology
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