This document provides an electronic media timeline, highlighting several important dates in the development of major communication technologies: 1877 - Invention of the phonograph; 1920 - Commercial radio begins in the US; 1928 - Invention of television by Philo Farnsworth; 1969 - Creation of the ARPANET which laid the foundations for the internet; 1991 - Invention of the World Wide Web by Tim Berners-Lee. It also notes the development of video games, mobile phones, smartphones, and social media sites from the 1970s through the 2000s.

1. Our Electronic Media Timeline
by Professor Miriam

2. Name that year

3. The Phonograph

4. 1877

5. Name that year

6. Commercial Radio in the U.S.

7. 1920

8. Name that year

9. The Invention of Television by Farnsworth

10. 1928

11. commercial TV?

12. Launch of Commercial Television (U.S).

13. 1931

14. Name that year

17. Pictured in the previous slide’s photo (from the
2001 celebration of the Internet) are four of the
original ARPANET team--(L to R) Ray
Tomlinson, Dave Walden, Alex McKenzie, and
Leo Beranek. These Internet founders (project
was called ARPANET) are holding the 1969
photo of the original Internet founders (project
called ARPANET) . Second from the left of the
main photo (and the middle crouching person in
the original photo) is David Walden. He is a
graduate fo San Francisco State University and
was honored at the 2014 Commencement.

18. 1969

19. World Wide Web?

20. Tim Berners-Lee, founder of the World Wide Web

21. 1991

22. Name that year

23. Video Games

25. Name that year

26. The Mobile Phone
with Invention Team Leader Martin Cooper

27. 1973demonstrated

28. 1983commercially available

29. Smartphones – first introduced in Japan

30. 1999

32. 2003

34. 2007

35. Name that year

36. social media

37. 1999

38. First Social Media Site - 1999
British site to allow users to find classmates .

39. in
2002

40. Founded in 2002, Google offered to buy it for $30 million
in 2003. The founders passed on the deal. A decision they
undoubtedly later regretted … the site was dead by 2006.

41. in
2003

42. arrived

43. and in
2004

44. was launched

45. Does new media
slay
old media?

47. NO

49. More media leads
to Time
Displacement

50. Media Consumption
Today