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1920s

1930s

1940s 1940s: Tape recording develops

1920: KDKA is Pittsburgh gets 1936: Life becomes first US first commercial radio license. magazine with pictures

1920: Tabloid journalism flourishes in big cities

1939 TV is demonstrated at New Yorks World Fair

1941-1945: Life magazine plays important role in reporting wwII

1922: Time is first weekly news magazine

1942: Voice of America begins (radio station) broadcasts in many languages

1922: First advertisement on radio

1948: Transistor radio is invented

1926: NBC becomes first radio network

1927: First experimental broadcast of television

1920s

1930s

1940s

1950s 1950s: Television dominate

1960s 1960s: Colour television

1970s 1970s: Video Cassette Recorder (VCR) developed

media industry and forces radio becomes more common to use music format

1950: Cable television systems 1964: Picture phone on display begins at the New York World Fair

1970s: Weekly newspaper circulation grows dramatically

1968: Intel founded

1970: Fibre optics invented

1969: ARPANET - the first

1971: IBM introduces the

iteration of internet is switched on floppy disk in California using packet switching technologies

1971: Ray Timlinson invents email

1971: Michael Hart begins Project Gutenberg (e-book)

1975: Microsoft founded

1976: Apple founded

1978: Phillips and Sony --> CDs

1950s

1960s

1970s

1978: Video laser disk invented

1980s 1980: First laptop computer

1990s 1990: WWW, HTML, HTTP, URLs were invented by Tim Berners-Lee and colleagues

2000s 2000: Napster & Bertelsmann AG partner to develop membership system that pays to artists

1980: CNN begin operation

1990s: Newspaper and megazine 2001: Merger of AOL go on internet and Time Warner

1981: Microsoft brings out the MS-DOS operating system

1991: CD-Rs reach the market

2001: Apple launced iPod

1981: MTV begins boardcasts

1992: First SMS to mobile phone 2001: Wikipedia launched by Larry Sanger

1982: Estimated 200 computers connected to the Internet worldwide

1993: Windows Internet Explorer 2003: iTunes Music store begins (IE) released

1983: Number of computers in USA exceeds 10 million

1994: Amazon starts selling books 2004: Media companies start selling music and video online / Napster relaunch paid music download store against iTunes

1983: Sony and Phillip release first1994: Hewlett Packard CD Players combines printer, fax, copier into one machine

2004: Facebook launched

1984: First PDA released

1994: Yahoo search engine

2005: YouTube was activated on internet

1985: AOL founded

1995: Cable modems introduced

1980s

1990s

2000s

1985: First dot com domain name 1995: Sony Playstation released

2005: Old media has been slow to catch up with new media

1985: Microsoft Windows

1995: WebTV formed to combine 2006: Twitter created television and internet

1986: GIF and JPEG formats announced

1995: E-bay launched

2006: iTune sells its billionth song

1996: DVD technology demonstrated

1996: Hotmail launched

1996: Larry Page and Sergey Brin start Google

1997: Blogging begins

1997: Nokia launchs G2 mobile

1997: Philippe Kahn invents digital camera phone

1997: Streaming audio and video available on the web

1998: Ericsson announced Bluetooth wireless techmology for peronal area networks

1999: Apple launched iMovie software on iMac DV. It is later

joined by iTunes, iPhoto, iDVD, iWeb, creating the iLife suite

1999: Napster sharing software released

elsmann AG

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