Media Timeline: Key Events
Media Timeline: Key Events
Media Timeline: Key Events
Media Timeline
Media and tech tightly tied to trade (china - silk
production), production, math, calendars, astronomy,
science, art, law; highly influenced by economic,
political and social events
International influences - Asia, Europe
New technology has often reflected/disrupted shifts in
power over time - from the few to the many
1600-1900
1794: Nearly flat rate U.S. postal law mails most newspapers for a penny stamp.
1797: In England, a heavy tax is levied on newspapers to limit the radical press.
1833: A penny buys a newspaper, the New York Sun, opening a mass market.
1898: Newspapers, led by Hearst and Pulitzer, help push U.S. into war with Spain.
1900-1950
1900: U.S. has 2,150 daily newspapers, 478 tri- or semi-weeklies, 14,717 weeklies.
1900: 562 cities in U.S. have more than one daily newspaper; New York City has 29.
1914: 1,300 journals, 140 daily newspapers in U.S. targeted to ethnic populations.
1930: Vannevar Bushs partly electronic computer can solve differential equations.
1933: U.S. newspapers pressure AP to cut service to radio, start Press-Radio War.
1936: BBC starts worlds first regular television service, three hours a day.
1942: Atanasoff and Berry in Iowa build the first electronic digital computer.
1948: WFIL-FM, owned by Philadelphia newspaper, transmits fax editions twice a day.
1950-1970
1970-1990
1972: The Xerox Alto, first computer with mouse and graphical interface.
1975: In Los Angeles, the first computer store; it sells assembled computers.
1976: Barbara Walters becomes first woman to anchor a U.S. TV nightly network newscast.
1980: A 25 lb. portable computer is favorite of reporters who send news from field. RS TRS- 80
1983: Time names the computer as "Man" of the Year for 1982.
1983: Apple's Lisa, the first microcomputer with a graphical user interface.
The '90s
1991: Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) written; helps create the World Wide Web.
1993: Graphical user interface, Mosaic, is developed for the World Wide Web.
1995: Amazon.com starts selling books online, will become Webs hottest retailer.
1998: Google
1998: 150 million Internet users estimated at years end, half in the U.S.
1998: Estimated number of Web pages added each day: 1.5 million.
1999: Number of U.S. daily newspapers drops to 1,483; total 56 million circulation.
1999: 150 million Internet users can access more than 800 million web pages.
2000s
2002: On the Web, creators of online journals, or "web logs," now "blog on."
2004: Facebook
2007: iPhone surfs Web, emails, plays videos, iTunes, makes phone calls, takes pictures.
2007: Twitter
2012
Gowalla RIP
Founder Jerry Yang leaves Yahoo
SOPA protests work
What's next?
2001
DotCom Bust
9/11 Tributes
Wikipedia launched
2002
2008
1995
Google News
CBS acquires CNET
Craigslist launched
Candidates embrace social media
Slate, Salon, USA Today, Houston
2003
EveryBlock.com
Chronicle, Philadelphia Inquirer
RSS
1996
2009
Google Buys Blogger
Washington Post
Hudson Plane Crash photo
MySpace launched
Wall Street Journal
Iran elections
Chicago Tribune
Politifact wins Pulitzer
2004
LA Times
MSNBC purchases Everyblock
Jon Stewart on Crossfire
MSNBC
Foursquare & Gowalla
Rathergate
Press Credentials to Bloggers
1997
2010
WikiNews,
Facebook,
Digg
Blackhawk Down
iPad released
Wikileaks
1998
2005
Facebook -500M Users;
Drudge Report
YouTube
Zuckerberg Person of the
Google
News Corporation buys
Year; The Social Network
MySpace
1999
2011
Blogger
2006
Egyptian Protests
IndyMedia
Macaca
Coupon sites
Invention
of
the
Year
-YouTube
2000
AOL/HuffPo merger
Person
of
the
Year
You
AOL/Time Warner merger
MySpace sold to Specifi
Google Buys YouTube $1.65B
Media
Death of Steve Jobs
Validity questioned