Media+Studies+Timeline

Media Studies Timeline (with the help of Professor Jim McPherson):

2000 B.C. – Phoenician alphabet 600 B.C. – Egyptian papyrus scrolls 540 B.C. – Public library in Athens 1450 – Gutenberg press (leads to Protestant Revolution, among other things) 1534 – first press in America (Spanish America) 1638 – first press in what would become U.S. (Harvard College) 1690 – First American newspaper: //Publick Occurrences// 1704 – First successful American newspaper: //The Boston News-Letter// 1741 – First American magazines 1791 – Bill of Rights (including First Amendment) ratified 1828 – Noah Webster publishes first dictionary 1848 – Associated Press founded 1877 – Thomas Edison invents the “talking machine” 1888 – George Eastman introduces the Kodak camera 1890s – first “New Journalism” period; “Yellow Journalism” 1901 – Guglielmo Marconi sends and receives radio message across the Atlantic <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1900s – Muckraking magazines <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1914-1918 – World War I propaganda, censorship, technology <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1915 – D.W. Griffith releases //Birth of a Nation,// first full-length film to significantly impact culture <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1923 – //Time// magazine debuts <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1923 – AT&T links two radio stations for first “network” <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1939 – TV is a hit at the World’s Fair <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1950s – “Golden Age of Television” <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1953 – //Playboy// magazine introduced; Marilyn Monroe is first centerfold <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1958 – videotape introduced <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1965-1970s – Second “New Journalism” period; literary journalism; underground newspapers <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1960s – Internet formed for exchange of ideas, not available to general public <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1969 – Neil Armstrong walks on moon; we see it on TV <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1974 – Richard Nixon resigns, a result of Watergate coverage <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1976 – Matsushita introduces VHS <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1982 – //USA Today// begins publication <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1990s – Internet access opened to general public; changes everything <span style="font-family: Arial,Arial,Helvetica;">1996 – Telecommunications Act of 1996