The document summarizes major technological developments in media and communication from 1891 to 2008. It shows the evolution from radio broadcasts in the 1890s, to early television in the 1920s-1950s, the launch of the internet in the 1990s, and rise of social media in the 2000s. Key developments included the BBC's first radio broadcast in 1922, launch of television in 1936, invention of the computer in 1959, creation of the MP3 in 1998, and platforms like iTunes, YouTube, Facebook and Twitter after 2000 that helped digital media go mainstream.

2. BBC The creation of Myspace was launched.
Formed First Computer : Z1
First ever AND The BBC opens the MP3 iPod was Charts go digital with legal
Radio world's first regular launched downloads.
Email by Apple. Web 2.0 Spotify
Broadcast high-definition
television service
1900 1926 1959 1991 1999 2003 2004 2006
1891 1922 1936 1966 1998 2001 2005
2008
Opening of BBC
Television Transmitter Napster- peer to Facebook was
First Ever peer file sharing launched and
(made TV available Twitter
Television of music in the became the
First Mass nationally) was
Broadcast form of MP3 files. largest social
Marketed Web 1.0 launched
‘The Apple networking site
Camera
Windmill’ launched
‘The
Brownie’ the itunes
store YouTube came about

3. 1891
RADIO was invented

4. 1895
Frenchman Louis Lumiere is invented the first
motion picture camera

5. 1900
First camera
-
(The Brownie)

6. 1922
BBC was formed
(radio broadcasts)

7. 1926
First television broadcast (a short film showing a
windmill spinning)

8. 1936
First basic computer was invented : Z1
The BBC opens the world's first regular high-
definition television service.

9. 1959
Opening of BBC Television Transmitter
(made TV available nationally)
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10. 1966
The first email was sent

11. 1991
’Web 1.0’ - first phase of the internet that focused
on browsing and consumption of websites. Many of
the sites back then were text based with hardly any
images. It was a dial-up connection meaning the
connection speed was relatively slow.

12. 1998
The creation of MP3

13. 1999
Napster peer to peer file sharing of music in the
form of MP3 files.

14. 2001
iPod was launched by Apple

15. 2003
Apple launched the iTunes store.
MySpace launched

16. 2004
Facebook was launched and rapidly became the largest
social networking site.
Web 2.0 : second phase of the internet that focused on
sharing and collaboration across the internet. Seeing as it is
broadband connection, it allows faster transfer of data and
upload is a viable option.

17. 2005
Charts go digital with legal downloads
YouTube was invented

18. 2006
Twitter was launched

19. ICONIC FILMS/TV
Aside from the invention of the
hardware which made creating and
distributing media possible, we
thought it would be interesting to
show clips of how TV and Film
developed alongside these changes!

20. *1901: First Silent Movie
‘The Great Train Robbery’

21. 1921: ‘The Kid’
Starring Charlie Chaplin
1939: ‘The Wizard of Oz’
*Key Film : Transition from black and white
1946: It’s a Wonderful Life

22. 1965: ‘The Sound of Music’
1975: ‘Jaws’
1982: ‘E.T’
*1996: ‘Trainspotting’
‘Choose life’

23. 2001: Harry Potter and the
Philosophers Stone
2008: Twilight
TODAY: The Hunger Games