The mass media as we know it By hadeelhamdan 1440 The First Printing Press in the world by German goldsmith Johannes Gutenberg 1477 First Printed advertisement in a book by William Caxton 1829 Invention of Typewriter by W.S. Burt 1900 Starting of the Golden Age for Television, Radio and Cinema 1923 The first news Magazine was Launched - TIME 1950 Black and White TV came out and became mainstream 1980 Color television became mainstream and First Online Newspaper - Columbus Dispatch 1986 MCI Mail - First Commercial Email Service 1991 World Wide Web came into being by Sir Timothy John-Berners Lee 2001 Instant Messaging Services