Modern media began over 30,000 years ago with cave paintings and has since evolved to include the development of the alphabet, printed books, newspapers, audio recordings, photographs, movies, television, computers, video players, digital cameras, and personal media players. Key developments include the first printed book in China in 6 CE, Johannes Gutenberg inventing the printing press in 1455, Thomas Edison patenting the phonograph in 1877, the first movie theater opening in 1896, and the introduction of personal computers in the late 1970s and early 1980s which have now become integral to daily life.

1. History about Media

2. Modern Media
• Media with storage and transmission began more than 30000
years ago (cave painting)
This is a 16000 year old
cave painting from
Lascaux, France

3.  The first alphabet is over
3000 years old

4. Diamond Sutra
• 1st Dated book printed in wooden
blocks
• Printed in China in 6 C.E
Gutenberg Press
• Johannes Gutenberg invented the 1st printing
press
• He printed 180 copies in Europe – 1455 C.E
News Paper- 1640
• With mass printing available newspaper could
be made
• 1640 in England- London Gazette in 1666 was
the 1st commercial newspaper

5. Phonograph – home audio
• Patented by Thomas Edison in 1877
• We can finally store and transmit audio
Photographs
• The idea is more than 1000 years old
• George Eastman made it more available in public in
1888- founded the Eastman Kodak Company in 1892
Radio - 1894
• Finally wireless and paperless transmission is
available
• Nikola Tesla was most likely 1st to do it

6. Movie Theatres
 1st public movie show in
New York, 1896
 Now we can store and
transmit video
First full length film (12 minutes)
was The Great Train Robbery made
in 1903

7. Television – 1st colored
T.V (1936)
• First black and white
then colored
• Philo Farnswoth in
1928 was the inventor

8. Business
Computers
- not for home
they were huge
- IBM Business
Computer 1964
Video players
(1971)
Sony made the
1st VCR Publically
(1971) - cost
$1400
Video
Cassettes-
1976
- A long battle
between VHS
and Betamax
- VHS wins the
battle

9. - Take your music
with you
- Revolutionary
portable media
Walkman-1979
- Play better
quality music at
home
CD Players- 1982
- Invented in 1950’s
- Consumer could
buy them in 1994
- Apple / Kodak both
made consumer
cameras
Digital Cameras

10. -Apple Computers in 1976
-Apple I and Apple II, TRS-80
and Commodore computers
were released in this era
Personal Computers 1977-81
- 1981 IMB – PC
Price $4000
Personal Computers 1984
- 1984 Macintosh = $2495
Hard Drive = $1500
PERSONALCOMPUTERS

11. From1997-Today
Computers have advanced rapidly
They have come from massive machines to small laptops
with more power
Computers are used in many parts of our daily life

12. Personal Media Player - 2002
 Very popular can play more than just one song
 Extension of Walkman and Discman