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Public library in Athens
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Jan 1, 1000
600 B.C. – Egyptian begin useing papyrus scrolls
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Period: Jan 1, 1000 to
history of muti media timeline
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Jan 21, 1000
symarian early alfabet
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Jan 21, 1000
2000 B.C. – Phoenician alphabet
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Jan 21, 1450
1450 – Gutenberg press
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Jan 24, 1500
Italian gazettes
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Jan 1, 1517
Martin Luther nails Ninety Five Theses to church in Germany
this form of mluti media was crushal beacse it allow many people to see it and it voiced its opinyon vary well -
1618 – Dutch Coranto (printed in English in 1620)
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first press in what would soon be U.S. (Harvard College)
the first printing press is put in harvard alowing books to be printed at a much faster rate -
1644 – John Milton denounces licensing of the press in Areopagitica
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Oxford Gazette (first English-language newspaper)
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First American newspaper
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First successful American newspaper: The Boston News-Letter
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First American magazines
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First African-American newspaper in US fredomes jounal
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Samuel Morse granted patent for telegraph.
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Civil War bigins
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Edison lab develops movie camera
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Heinrich Hertz transmits wireless sound waves
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first “New Journalism” period; “Yellow Journalism”
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Edison develops mass market phonograph
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Semitic alphabet in Egypt
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Guglielmo Marconi sends and receives radio message across the Atlanti
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Newsreels begin
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Titanic sinks; leads to Federal Radio Act of 1912
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first full-length film
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Charlie Chaplin the first entertainer to earn $1,000,000
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censorship technology
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First radio stations in north amiraica
north amrica has its first radio staoin -
Reader’s Digest magazine founded
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Reader’s Digest magazine founded
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Lee de Forest shows first talkie
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Time magazine debuts
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Lee de Forest shows first “talkie”
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A.C. Nielsen company begins
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AT&T links two radio stations for first “network”
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Philo Farnsworth applies for electronic TV patents
elictic tv gets a patant -
1927 – Philo Farnsworth applies for electronic TV patents
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The Jazz Singer released
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1927 – Federal Radio Act sets up commission to regulate airwaves
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Academy Awards given for the first time (Wings wins Best Picture)
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1930s & 40s – “Golden Age of Movies”
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Eleanor Roosevelt insists on women-only press conferences (“the Roosevelt Rule
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Federal Communications Commission (FCC) established
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England is first country with regular TV broadcasts
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Life magazine debuts
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Orson Welles’ “War of the Worlds” broadcast
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TV is a hit at the World’s Fair
tvs hit the worlds fair massive hit -
First FM radio station started in New Jersey
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First TV commercial advertises a Bulova clock
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John H. Johnson starts Negro Digest; would later found Ebony and Jet
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1942 – John H. Johnson starts Negro Digest; would later found Ebony and Jet
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Red Scare leads to congressional investigation of Hollywood
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Red Channels: The Communist Influence in Radio and Television ruins careers
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1950s – “Golden Age of Television”
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1953 – TV Guide magazine debuts; Lucille Ball and her newborn son on first cover
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1954 – Elvis Presley discovered by Sam Phillips of Sun Records
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1958 – videotape introduced
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Kennedy-Nixon debate
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1960s – Internet formed for exchange of ideas, not available to general public
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internet
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Network news expands from 15 minutes to 30 minutes
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The Beatles first tour America
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Congress passes Public Broadcasting Act; PBS formed
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Neal Armstrong walks on moon; we see it on TV
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ABC introduces made-for-TV movies
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Feminists stage sit-in at Ladies Home Journal
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Ms. magazine launched
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Boylan v. New York Times sex discrimination lawsuit filed
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Cigarette advertising banned from TV
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Richard Nixon resigns, a result of Watergate coverage
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Sony Betamax home videocassette recorder introduced
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Sony Betamax home videocassette recorder introduced
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1983 – Sony introduces CD player
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1990s – Internet access opened to general public; changes everything
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world wide web
the world wide web beacomes a thing -
1996 – Telecommunications Act of 1996 brings V-chip, deregulation, and dramatic increase in mergers and takeovers
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Sony Playstation 2 uses DVD for home video games
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2000: Website created to ease public search of U.S. govt. locations
the website is created -
2000: The dot.com industry crashes.
the dotcome industry crashes -
2000: More than 3,000,000 blank CDs are sold every month.
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Digital cameras cut deeply into analog camera sales
digital camrase take a signifant chunck of camra sales -
85% of U.S. households own VCRs.
more houses one vcrs than not -
2000: DVD players become world’s fastest selling home electronics device.
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Seventy million computers connected to the Internet
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2001: Apple opens a retail store
Apple opens it first retail store in 2001 -
2001: Mac OS X operating system
the OS systomje is introduced -
2001: An iPod can store 1,000 songs.
Ipods now have the storg to hold 1,000 songs represinting a massive leep in storige -
TV standard changes to digital
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iTunes online music store
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Google Library Book Project, digitization of books
Google is one of the firt compins to try to add every book to the internt -
Presidential debates on YouTube
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smart phones
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Steve Jobs dies
steve jobs ceo of apple dies -
samsung vs apple
samsung and apple have a massive lawsuit -
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survay shows more kids in the Usa have videogames than not
for the first time more kids have video games in the us than not
