The Evolution of Media Arts

  • Television

    Television

    The first working TV system was made by Philo Farnsworth in 1927
  • Radio news

    Radio news

    The adoption of radio news and entertainment happened in the 1930s.
  • car radios

    car radios

    Created by the Galvin manufacturing corporation
  • Colour Television

    Colour Television

    created by Scottish inventer John Logie Baird, became most popular in the 50s.
  • walkies talkies

    walkies talkies

    Walkie talkies were invented by Canadian Donald Hings
  • Barcodes

    Barcodes

    Created in the 40s by Bernard Silver and Norman Woodland. The first use was in the 60s for automatic car identification.
  • Digital Computer

    Digital Computer

    The first digital computer was made 1942 by John Vincent Atanasoff and Clifford Berry
  • Cable TV

    Cable TV

    Originating in Arkansas, Oregon and Pennsylvania to improve poor reception.
  • Rise of Television

    Rise of Television

    The rise of television, known as the golden age of television happened in the 1950s.
  • Underground Press

    Underground Press

    Underground press was invented in the mid 60s, it is press that is illegal.
  • VR

    VR

    Credited to Ivan Sutherland, created the first head mounted display, nicknamed "the Sword of Damocles"
  • Email

    Email

    Email was invented by Ray Tomlinson in 1971 when he sent the first email over ARPANET.
  • MTV

    MTV

    MTV was invented in 1981 with the first music video being Video Killed The Radio Star by the Buggles.
  • CDs

    CDs

    Invented through a joint effort between Sony and Philips, first 50 titles were released with in October 1982
  • World Wide Web

    World Wide Web

    Invented by Tim Burners-Lee a British scientist. By the end of 1990 the first web browser and server were built.
  • Smartphones

    Smartphones

    Prototypes for smartphones date back to 1992 but the first one wasn’t released until 1994.
  • Text Messages

    Text Messages

    Developed in 1984 but the first text wasn´t sent until 1992, the first text wrote "Merry Christmas" sent by engineer Neil Papworth.
  • iPod

    iPod

    Invented by Apple and first went for sale about a month after it was invented. Marketed using "1,000 songs in your pocket".
  • Facebook

    Facebook

    Facebook launched on February 4, 2004 by Mark Zuckerberg, the platform was initially exclusive to Harvard students as a way to connect with each other.
  • TikTok

    TikTok

    China first launched Tiktok in September 2016 and in 2018 it merged with Musical.ly to become the platform that it is today.
  • PS5

    PS5

    Created by Sony, first released in Australia, Japan, North America, New Zealand, and South Korea.
  • ChatGPT

    ChatGPT

    Chatgpt was invented by openAI in 2022, it gained millions of users just days after its launch.