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Media Timeline
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
Google News
1997
Blackhawk Down
1998
Drudge Report
Google
1999
Blogger
IndyMedia
2000
AOL/Time Warner merger
2003
RSS
Google Buys Blogger
MySpace launched
2008
CBS acquires CNET
Candidates embrace social media
EveryBlock.com
2004
Jon Stewart on Crossfire
Rathergate
Press Credentials to Bloggers
WikiNews, Facebook, Digg
2005
YouTube
News Corporation buys
MySpace
2006
Macaca
Invention of the Year -YouTube
Person of the Year - You
Google Buys YouTube $1.65B
2009
Hudson Plane Crash photo
Iran elections
Politifact wins Pulitzer
MSNBC purchases Everyblock
Foursquare & Gowalla
2010
iPad released
Wikileaks
Facebook -500M Users;
Zuckerberg Person of the Year;
The Social Network
2011
Egyptian Protests
Coupon sites
AOL/HuffPo merger
MySpace sold to Specific
Media
Death of Steve Jobs
Validity questioned