9-17-10+Media+Timeline

Early B.C.'s: The first forms of writing start to show up in the world.
==Early A.D.'s: Consist of more developed and rooted writing systems and dialects. Media in writing and speech grow through the lands. Speech is still the primary media of the time, but writing is making an upcoming in the late end of this period. Music is also largely prevalent during this period.==

1600's: Newspapers become a form of regular life instead of just for the wealthy. Little does the world know about how much the easy access to information will change the world and how it works.

 * Town criers are still existent to spread news and music is still growing as a media. Classical begins its rise to glory.

1700's: News as a media has grown to a very large point in history. The overall speed of news travel is getting faster and faster, especially with the invention of the steam engine.

 * 1704 First advertising in American newspapers.
 * 1776 The Declaration of Independence is drafted and America begins its fight for freedom. The first war where media, such as newspapers, are used as weapons to rally troops and demoralize your enemies.
 * 1776 Thomas Paine uses his pamphlet //Common Sense// to rally the colonists an give a bad look to the British.
 * 1785 First mail delivered by coaches.
 * 1794 First Panorama is opened, it is a forerunner of the movie theater.
 * By the end of this century freedom of press is still not allowed every where in the world. Many countries had revolutions for the rights to media freedoms.

1800's: The beginning of the Industrial era and many advances in media.
==- This era has had many ground breaking invetions and works that will help shape the world to what it is today. This was the beginning of the melding between the different medias with each other and businesses.==
 * 1802 The Library of Congress is established.
 * 1810 First telegraph is tested. Leads to one of the biggest inventions of the century and a huge boom in mass media.
 * 1813 Steamboats now carry mail, increasing the speed at which news is spread.
 * 1814 //Star Spangled Banner// is written.
 * 1821 Charles Wheatstone is first to reproduce sound, and first public highschool is opened in Boston. Both of these will eventually bring very significant changes to the media world.
 * 1828 Ladies' Magazine is published, first magazine to be just for women. Was very successful and was published in America.
 * 1828 Anthroscope becomes the forerunner to the motion picture projector.
 * 1834 Braille is invented by Louis Braille.
 * 1835 First photographs are taken by W. H. Fox Talbot.
 * 1841 Volney Palmer becomes first person in the U.S. to sell ads.
 * 1841 First type-composed machine is used in London.
 * 1843 First photo studio established in Scotland.
 * 1845 Typewriter is invented.
 * 1850 Antonio de Torres Jurado invents the modern guitar.
 * 1850 Advertising in newspapers becomes flashy, P.T. Barnum is a main contributor.
 * 1856 The beginning of photojournalism with pictures of the Crimean War
 * 1856 First full page ad in a newspaper, the //New York Ledger.//
 * //1858 First mailboxes appear on U.S. streets.//
 * 1862 Paper money is used in the U.S.
 * 1863 Typotelegraph sends faxes from London to Liverpool
 * 1865 Public schooling becomes almost guaranteed to all of the U.S.
 * 1865 Pantelegraph sends faxes commercially from Paris to Lyon.
 * 1870 States pass laws to stop ad sign painters from destroying scenery.
 * 1873 Type-writers are out fitted with the QWERTY key setup.
 * 1876 Alexander Graham Bell invents the telephone.
 * 1877 Phonograph is invented by Edison and Charles Cros.
 * 1878 Full page newspaper ads are now used regularly.
 * 1880 Muybridge’s Zoopraxiscope projects photographic images in motion, it is the next step to television and movies.
 * 1880 John Powers is the first skilled ad copy writer.
 * 1884 First camera to use a roll of film to take pictures.
 * 1887 The first ads appear in magazines.
 * 1888 //National Geographic// is started.
 * 1890 The first jukebox is put into use.
 * 1892 Portable typewriters make it possible to have a professional typing job anywhere you go.
 * 1895 First short 15 minute film is shown in a Paris cellar.
 * 1896 First comic strip is introduced to the newspaper, it was called //The Yellow Kid.//
 * 1896 Motion picture projector is manufactured in Britain.
 * 1897 First cinema for just films is created in Paris.
 * 1898 The loudspeaker is invented. The use of speakers has changed the world time and time again with the messages they send.

1900's: This was the beginning of modern media as we know it with the invention of television and the creation of the world wide web.
==﻿- This era lead to many of the technologies we have today and also influenced many of the cultural revolutions we've had over the years. Media is force, a force that if put into use can change the world.==
 * 1900 Country music in America grows in popularity.
 * 1900 Europe and Japan are making movies on a regular basis.
 * 1900 Modern music begins.
 * 1902 The debate if photography is art begins. It never will end, just like many other mediums battle to be considered art in common society.
 * 1903 The release of //The Great Train Robbery,// creates a drive for more movies and also starts a new mass of entertainment.
 * 1904 Comic books are released.
 * 1904 Music becomes transmitted over radio in Austria.
 * 1905 Actors are used to advertise products.
 * 1906 An animated film is created.
 * 1907 Photocopier is marketed in the world.
 * 1910 The beginning of marketing research, they start to target audiences specifically.
 * 1912 Mail carried by airplanes begins.
 * 1913 Phone service spreads to rural areas.
 * 1914 Media is used for war propaganda. Helps rally many troops and supporters to both factions by the far reaches of media.
 * 1914 Advertising begins to be regulated by the Federal Trades Commission.
 * 1917 Uncle Sam //I Want You// poster hits U.S. streets and brings many men calling.
 * 1921 Radio becomes a common place in peoples lives across the world, much of which is in the U.S.
 * 1922 BBC goes on the air.
 * 1923 //Time// releases its first magazine.
 * 1924 First disney cartoon, //Alice in Wonderland.//
 * 1926 NBC is formed.
 * 1927 Advertising becomes the back bone of radio broadcasting.
 * 1927 CBS is formed.
 * 1929 First car radios are released.
 * 1936 First electric guitars come out.
 * 1939 Some TV firsts, it is yet to take off still.
 * 1940 Bigger bands control the music scene.
 * 1941 First TV commercials in New York.
 * 1942 All types of media used for war propaganda again.
 * 1949 Network TV is established in U.S.
 * 1951 Color TV sets go on sale.
 * 1951 One and a half million TV sets in U.S.
 * 1952 About 19 million in U.S. homes.
 * 1954 Regular color TV broadcasts begin in U.S.
 * 1954 TV revenue beats radio revenue for first time.
 * 1963 The Beatles hit the music scene.
 * 1965 Vietnam is first televised war.
 * 1966 Star Trek begins its long journey through media space.
 * 1969 PBS is created.
 * 1969 Woodstock changes the world.
 * 1970 Congress outlaws tobacco ads in broadcasting.
 * 1970 NPR begins broadcasting.
 * 1972 //Deep Throat// starts the porn movie industry.
 * 1972 Pong hits arcades and begins the video game boom, still growing today.
 * 1973 The cell phone is invented.
 * 1974 Punk rock hts Britain.
 * 1975 First home video game system.
 * 1976 Apple begins its rise to fame, fortune, and glory.
 * 1977 //Star Wars// is released, the force is strong with this one....
 * 1979 Gamers discover the internet.
 * 1981 MTV starts to broadcast music videos, how it has changed over the years.
 * 1981 First laptops are introduced.
 * 1985 First practical and marketable laptops.
 * 1987 Simpson's debute and Japan's anime cartoons.
 * 1988 98% of U.S. homes have TV.
 * 1991 Sony Playstation hits market, caves up compition easily in the first years of its debute.
 * 1994 Two million computers connected to the internet.
 * 1994 Banner ads appear on websites.
 * 1997 New medias really start to sap away people from older medias.
 * 1997 43% of homes have computers in the U.S.
 * 1997 MMORPGs hit the internet.
 * 1998 One in three Americans use the internet.

2000's: The turning of an old century into a new and very technologically heavy era. Media is everywhere and always in our lives these days.

 * 2000 Reality shows are big in the U.S.
 * 2001 The wireless laptop is brought to being.
 * 2001 iTunes hits the computing and music world.
 * 2002 Pop-ups hit computers in waves.
 * 2003 Myspace and Facebook start to tie together the world.
 * 2004 1.5 billion cell phones world wide.
 * 2006 World of Warcraft has 6 million users.
 * 2008 Guitar Hero hits the markets and causes a rebirth of classic rock in the youth.
 * 2009 Blu-Ray beats HD and becomes High Def mainstream.
 * 2010 3-D tvs hit the markets.

- This new century has already lead to new advancements in almost everyfield, who knows where we will end up, only time will tell.
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