Media Timeline

38,000BC - Cave paintings are used to communicate

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59BC - Acta Diurna' is the first newspaper published.

1439 - The printing press arrives in Europe.

1455 - The bible is printed in Latin for the first time.

1740 - The London (Originally Oxford) Gazette is published for the first time.

1876 - The first telephone is invented.

1888 - The first film, Roundhay Garden Scene, is made.

1889 - The first records are made.

1890 - Kinetoscope allows viewers to watch a short movie through a peephole.

1906 - The first feature film, The Story of the Kelly Gang, is released.

1920 - Televisions are first used.

1920 - The first commercial radio station goes on air.

1941 - The first advert airs on WNBT, advertising a baseball game.

1953 - The first colour TVs are invented and broadcasted on.

1973 - The first mobile phone call is made.

1991 - The internet becomes publicly available.

1995 - Web Browsers begin operating.

1997 - First social media site "Six Degrees" is created.

1999 - Web 2.0 begins.
2003 - Blog-publishing services begin to appear.

2003 - MYSPACE and other social structures start operating.

2004 - Microblogs allow users to exchange small parts of content (twitter, Tumblr)

2004 - Web search engines like google and yahoo start up.

2005 - Youtube allows its first video to be shared.

2010 - Instagram starts up.

2011 - Snapchat starts up.

2015 - We break into Web 3.0