Mobile/ Interactive History

Google eBooks

• In 1965, Mainframes and Microcomputers were put into schools - used mostly for administration and counseling. The purpose was to help students with skills, not advance their knowledge through higher order thinking activities.
• Michael Hart founded eBooks in 1971- a way to purchase and read books online. 
• The Nokia Communication was the first mobile phone to enable wireless email and internet connection. It was released in 1996.
• NOWFASHION is the first magazine to publish photos in real time. 
• Podcasts, providing  direct download and streamed webcasting, became popular in 2004.
• In 2005, YouTube, the most popular worldwide video website, as well as a forum to connect its users, was created.

Television and Radio History

Newsreel that played in movie theaters.

• In 1929, Paul Galvin invented the first car radio. Consumers couldn't purchase radios from carmakers, that had to buy them separately. Galvin coined the name Motorola for the company's new products combining the idea of motion and radio. 
• In the 1950s, people relied on Movietone News to view an event. These news segments played before every movie.
• In 1954, the now Carmel News Caravan broadcast the first network news show in color, though this did not become a regular thing until 1965.
• In June of 1956, the practical television remote controller first entered the American home.
  
• Sirius XM Radio, Inc. was formed on July 29, 2008. It provides pay-for-service radio and includes 73 different music channels, 39 news, sports, talk and entertainment channels, 21 regional traffic and weather channels and 23 play-by-play sports channels.

Print Media History

Notice how the paper comes out automatically folded. 

•  America's first continuously-published newspaper, the Boston News-Letter, published its first issue on April 24, 1704. 
• In the 1850's, the first "pictorial" weekly newspapers emerged; they featured for the first time extensive illustrations of events in the news, as woodcut engravings made from correspondents' sketches or taken from that new invention, the photograph. 
• 1856: Machines now mechanically fold newspapers.
• In 1885, newspapers began to be delivered daily by train.
  In the 1890s, Joseph Pulitzer coined the term "yellow journalism"now known as a comic strip.
• TIME Magazine was first published on March 3, 1923 as a newsmagazine which summarized and organized the news so that "busy men" could stay informed.