Media Information and Literacy : BRIEF HISTORY OF MEDIA ~M3~

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Pre-Industrial Industrial Age Electronic Age Evolution of New Media
Age
1041: Movable clay 1774: Invention of 1940: Community 1991: World Wide Web came
type printing Electric Telegraph Antenna Television into
in China. by George Louis system, early cable. being by Sir Timothy John-
Lesage. Berners
Lee.
1440: The first printing 1829: Invention of 1950: Black and White 1995: Microsoft Internet Explorer
Press in Typewriter by W.S TV came out was launched.
the world by the Burt. and became
German mainstream.
goldsmith Johannes
Gutenberg.
1447: First printed 1876: Invention of 1960: Rise of FM 1997: DVDs replaced VCR.
advertisement Telephone by radio.
in a book by William Alexander Graham
Caxton. Bell.
1877: Invention of the 1963: Introduction of 2001: Instant Messaging Services.
phonograph by audio cassettes.
Thomas Alva Edison.
1894: Invention of 1972: Email was 2002: Satellite radio is launched.
radio by Guglielmo developed by Ray
Marconi. Tomlinson.
Early 1900s: Start of 1973: First handheld 2004: The social network
the golden age of mobile phone by TheFacebook.com launched
television, radio, and John Mitchel and in February 2004. Harvard
cinema. Martin Cooper. students who signed up for the
service could post photographs
of themselves and personal
information about their lives,
such as their class schedules and
clubs they belonged to.
1918: First colour 1975: Introduction of 2005: YouTube was officially
movie shot “Cupid VCRs launched on December 15, 2005,
Angling”. (videocassette it was serving more than two
recorder). million video views each day.
1920: Invention of TV 1980: Colour 2006: Dorsey posted the first
by John Logie television became Twitter message on March 21,
Baird and First Radio mainstream and first 2006. The service, which allowed
Commercial online users to send messages no longer
Broadcast by KDKA newspaper— than 140 characters, quickly
radio station a Columbus Dispatch. became a popular social
daughter company of networking hub as well as a
Westinghouse mainstream form of
Electric and communication.
Manufacturing
 Company.
1923: The first news 1981: IBM personal 2012: On April 3, 2012,
Magazine was computer was Instagram released a version
launched—TIME. Introduced. of its app for Android phones,
and it was downloaded more
than one million times in less
than one day.
1927: First TV 1985: Microsoft 2016: Launched in September
transmission by Philo Windows was 2016, TikTok has exploded in
Farnsworth. Launched. popularity over the past five
years.

1986: MCI Mail—first

commercial
email service.

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