1902: Trans-Pacific telephone cable connects Canada and Australia.
- 1903-1904
- 1903: Technical improvements in radio, telegraph, phonograph, movies and printing.
- 1903: London Daily Mirror illustrates only with photographs.
- 1904: A telephone answering machine is invented.
- 1904: Fleming invents the diode to improve radio communication.
- 1904: Offset lithography becomes a commercial reality.
- 1904: A photograph is transmitted by wire in Germany.
- 1904: Hine photographs America's underclass.
- 1904: The Great Train Robbery creates demand for fiction movies.
- 1904: The comic book.
- 1904: The double-sided phonograph disc.
- 1905-1906
- 1905: In Pittsburgh the first nickelodeon opens.
- 1905: Photography, printing, and post combine in the year's craze, picture postcards.
- 1905: In France, Pathe colors black and white films by machine.
- 1905: In New Zealand, the postage meter is introduced.
- 1905: The Yellow Pages.
- 1905: The juke box; 24 choices.
- 1906: In Britain, new process colors books cheaply.
- 1906: A program of voice and music is broadcast in the U.S.
- 1906: Lee de Forest invents the three-element vacuum tube.
- 1906: Dunwoody and Pickard build a crystal-and-cat's-whisker radio.
- 1906: An animated cartoon film is produced.
- 1906: Fessenden plays violin for startled ship wireless operators.
- 1906: An experimental sound-on-film motion picture.
- 1906: Strowger invents automatic dial telephone switching.
- 1907-1908
- 1907: Bell and Howell develop a film projection system.
- 1907: Lumiere brothers invent still color photography process.
- 1907: DeForest begins regular radio music broadcasts.
- 1907: In Russia, Rosing develops theory of television.
- 1908: In U.S., Smith introduces true color motion pictures.
- 1909-1910
- 1909: Radio distress signal saves 1,700 lives after ships collide.
- 1909: First broadcast talk; the subject: women's suffrage.
- 1910: Sweden's Elkstrom invents "flying spot" camera light beam.
- 1911-1912
- 1911: Efforts are made to bring sound to motion pictures.
- 1911: Rotogravure aids magazine production of photos.
- 1911: "Postal savings system" inaugurated.
- 1912: U.S. passes law to control radio stations.
- 1912: Motorized movie cameras replace hand cranks.
- 1912: Feedback and heterodyne systems usher in modern radio.
- 1912: First mail carried by airplane.
- 1913-1914
- 1913: The portable phonograph is manufactured.
- 1913: Type composing machines roll out of the factory.
- 1914: A better triode vacuum tube improves radio reception.
- 1914: Radio message is sent to an airplane.
- 1914: In Germany, the 35mm still camera, a Leica.
- 1914: In the U.S., Goddard begins rocket experiments.
- 1914: First transcontinental telephone call.
- 1915-1916
- 1915: Wireless radio service connects U.S. and Japan.
- 1915: Radio-telephone carries speech across the Atlantic.
- 1915: Birth of a Nation sets new movie standards.
- 1915: The electric loudspeaker.
- 1916: David Sarnoff envisions radio as "a household utility."
- 1916: Cameras get optical rangefinders.
- 1916: Radios get tuners.
- 1917-1918
- 1917: Photocomposition begins.
- 1917: Frank Conrad builds a radio station, later KDKA.
- 1917: Condenser microphone aids broadcasting, recording.
- 1918: First regular airmail service: Washington, D.C. to New York.
- 1919
- 1919: People can now dial telephone numbers themselves.
- 1919: Shortwave radio is invented.
- 1919: Flip-flop circuit invented; will help computers to count.
- 1920
- 1920: The first broadcasting stations are opened.
- 1920: First cross-country airmail flight in the U.S.
- 1920: Sound recording is done electrically.
- 1920: Post Office accepts the postage meter.
- 1920: KDKA in Pittsburgh broadcasts first scheduled programs.
- 1921
- 1921: Quartz crystals keep radio signals from wandering.
- 1921: The word "robot" enters the language.
- 1921: Western Union begins wirephoto service.
- 1922
- 1922: A commercial is broadcast, $100 for ten minutes.
- 1922: Technicolor introduces two-color process for movies.
- 1922: Germany's UFA produces a film with an optical sound track.
- 1922: First 3-D movie, requires spectacles with one red and one green lens.
- 1922: Singers desert phonograph horn mouths for acoustic studios.
- 1922: Nanook of the North, the first documentary.
- 1923
- 1923: Zworykin's electronic iconoscope camera tube and kinescope display tube.
- 1923: People on one ship can talk to people on another.
- 1923: Ribbon microphone becomes the studio standard.
- 1923: A picture, broken into dots, is sent by wire.
- 1923: 16 mm nonflammable film makes its debut.
- 1923: Kodak introduces home movie equipment.
- 1923: Neon advertising signs.
- 1924
- 1924: Low tech achievement: notebooks get spiral bindings.
- 1924: The Eveready Hour is the first sponsored radio program.
- 1924: At KDKA, Conrad sets up a short-wave radio transmitter.
- 1924: Daily coast-to-coast air mail service.
- 1924: Pictures are transmitted over telephone lines.
- 1924: Two and a half million radio sets in the U.S.
- 1925
- 1925: The Leica 35 mm camera sets a new standard.
- 1925: Commercial picture facsimile radio service across the U.S.
- 1925: All-electric phonograph is built.
- 1925: A moving image, the blades of a model windmill, is telecast.
- 1925: From France, a wide-screen film.
- 1926
- 1926: Commercial picture facsimile radio service across the Atlantic.
- 1926: Baird demonstrates an electro-mechanical TV system.
- 1926: Some radios get automatic volume control, a mixed blessing.
- 1926: The Book-of-the-Month Club.
- 1926: In U.S., first 16mm movie is shot.
- 1926: Goddard launches liquid-fuel rocket.
- 1926: Permanent radio network, NBC, is formed.
- 1926: Bell Telephone Labs transmit film by television.
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- 1927
- 1927: NBC begins two radio networks; CBS formed.
- 1927: Farnsworth assembles a complete electronic TV system.
- 1927: Jolson's "The Jazz Singer" is the first popular "talkie."
- 1927: Movietone offers newsreels in sound.
- 1927: U.S. Radio Act declares public ownership of the airwaves.
- 1927: Technicolor.
- 1927: Negative feedback makes hi-fi possible.
- 1928
- 1928: Baird demonstrates color TV on electro-mechanical system.
- 1928: The teletype machine makes its debut.
- 1928: Television sets are put in three homes, programming begins.
- 1928: Baird invents a video disc to record television.
- 1928: In an experiment, television crosses the Atlantic.
- 1928: In Schenectady, N.Y., the first scheduled television broadcasts.
- 1928: Steamboat Willie introduces Mickey Mouse.
- 1928: A motion picture is shown in color.
- 1928: Times Square gets moving headlines in electric lights.
- 1928: IBM adopts the 80-column punched card.
- 1929
- 1929: Experiments begin on electronic color television.
- 1929: Telegraph ticker sends 500 characters per minute.
- 1929: Ship passengers can phone relatives ashore.
- 1929: Brokers watch stock prices on an automated electric board.
- 1929: Something else new: the car radio.
- 1929: In Germany, magnetic sound recording on plastic tape.
- 1929: Television studio is built in London.
- 1929: Air mail flown from Miami to South America.
- 1929: Bell Lab transmits stills in color by mechanical scanning.
- 1929: Zworykin demonstrates cathode-ray tube "kinescope" receiver, 60 scan lines.
- 1930
- 1930: Photo flashbulbs replace dangerous flash powder.
- 1930: "Golden Age" of radio begins in U.S.
- 1930: Lowell Thomas begins first regular network newscast.
- 1930: TVs based on British mechanical system roll off factory line.
- 1930: Bush's differential analyzer introduces the computer.
- 1930: AT&T tries the picture telephone.
- 1931
- 1931: Commercial teletype service.
- 1931: Electronic TV broadcasts in Los Angeles and Moscow.
- 1931: Exposures meters go on sale to photographers.
- 1931: NBC experimentally doubles transmission to 120-line screen.
- 1932
- 1932: Disney adopts a three-color Technicolor process for cartoons.
- 1932: Kodak introduces 8 mm film for home movies.
- 1932: The "Times" of London uses its new Times Roman typeface.
- 1932: Stereophonic sound in a motion picture, "Napoleon."
- 1932: Zoom lens is invented, but a practical model is 21 years off.
- 1932: The light meter.
- 1932: NBC and CBS allow prices to be mentioned in commercials.
- 1933
- 1933: Armstrong invents FM, but its real future is 20 years off.
- 1933: Multiple-flash sports photography.
- 1933: Singing telegrams.
- 1933: Phonograph records go stereo.
- 1934
- 1934: Drive-in movie theater opens in New Jersey.
- 1934: Associated Press starts wirephoto service.
- 1934: In Germany, a mobile television truck roams the streets.
- 1934: In Scotland, teletypesetting sets type by phone line.
- 1934: Three-color Technicolor used in live action film.
- 1934: Communications Act of 1934 creates FCC.
- 1934: Half of the homes in the U.S. have radios.
- 1934: Mutual Radio Network begins operations.
- 1935
- 1935: German single lens reflex roll film camera synchronized for flash bulbs.
- 1935: Also in Germany, audio tape recorders go on sale.
- 1935: IBM's electric typewriter comes off the assembly line.
- 1935: The Penguin paperback book sells for the price of 10 cigarettes.
- 1935: All-electronic VHF television comes out of the lab.
- 1935: Eastman-Kodak develops Kodachrome color film.
- 1935: Nielsen's Audimeter tracks radio audiences.
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- 1936
- 1936: Berlin Olympics are televised closed circuit.
- 1936: Bell Labs invents a voice recognition machine.
- 1936: Kodachrome film sharpens color photography.
- 1936: Co-axial cable connects New York to Philadelphia.
- 1936: Alan Turing's "On Computable Numbers" describes a general purpose computer.
- 1937
- 1937: Stibitz of Bell Labs invents the electrical digital calculator.
- 1937: Pulse Code Modulation points the way to digital transmission.
- 1937: NBC sends mobile TV truck onto New York streets.
- 1937: A recording, the Hindenburg crash, is broadcast coast to coast.
- 1937: Carlson invents the photocopier.
- 1937:Snow White is the first feature-length cartoon.
- 1938
- 1938: Strobe lighting.
- 1938: Baird demonstrates live TV in color.
- 1938: Broadcasts can be taped and edited.
- 1938: Two brothers named Biro invent the ballpoint pen in Argentina.
- 1938: CBS "World News Roundup" ushers in modern newscasting.
- 1938: DuMont markets electronic television receiver for the home.
- 1938: Radio drama, War of the Worlds," causes national panic.
- 1939
- 1939: Mechanical scanning system abandoned.
- 1939: New York World's Fair shows television to public.
- 1939: Regular TV broadcasts begin.
- 1939: Air mail service across the Atlantic.
- 1939: Many firsts: sports coverage, variety show, feature film, etc.
- 1940
- 1940: Fantasia introduces stereo sound to American public.
- 1941
- 1941: Stereo is installed in a Moscow movie theater.
- 1941: FCC sets U.S. TV standards.
- 1941: CBS and NBC start commercial transmission; WW II intervenes.
- 1941: Goldmark at CBS experiments with electronic color TV.
- 1941: Microwave transmission.
- 1941: Zuse's Z3 is the first computer controlled by software.
- 1942
- 1942: Atanasoff, Berry build the first electronic digital computer.
- 1942: Kodacolor process produces the color print.
- 1943
- 1943: Repeaters on phone lines quiet long distance call noise.
- 1944
- 1944: Harvard's Mark I, first digital computer, put in service.
- 1944: IBM offers a typewriter with proportional spacing.
- 1944: NBC presents first U.S. network newscast, a curiosity.
- 1945
- 1945: Clarke envisions geo-synchronous communication satellites.
- 1945: It is estimated that 14,000 products are made from paper.
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- 1946
- 1946: Jukeboxes go into mass production.
- 1946: Pennsylvania's ENIAC heralds the modern electronic computer.
- 1946: Automobile radio telephones connect to telephone network.
- 1946: French engineers build a phototypesetting machine.
- 1947
- 1947: Hungarian engineer in England invents holography.
- 1947: The transistor is invented, will replace vacuum tubes.
- 1947: The zoom lens covers baseball's world series for TV.
- 1947: Holography invented.
- 1948
- 1948: The LP record arrives on a viny disk.
- 1948: Shannon and Weaver of Bell Labs propound information theory.
- 1948: Land's Polaroid camera prints pictures in a minute.
- 1948: Hollywood switches to nonflammable film.
- 1948: Public clamor for television begins; FCC freezes new licenses.
- 1948: Airplane re-broadcasts TV signal across nine states.
- 1949
- 1949: Network TV in U.S.
- 1949: RCA offers the 45 rpm record.
- 1949: Community Antenna Television, forerunner to cable.
- 1949: Whirlwind at MIT is the first real time computer.
- 1949: Magnetic core computer memory is invented.
- 1950
- 1950: Regular color television transmission.
- 1950: Vidicon camera tube improves television picture.
- 1950: Changeable typewriter typefaces in use.
- 1950: A.C. Nielsen's Audimeters track viewer watching.
- 1951
- 1951: One and a half million TV sets in U.S., a tenfold jump in one year.
- 1951: Cinerama will briefly dazzle with a wide, curved screen and three projectors.
- 1951: Computers are sold commercially.
- 1951: Still camera get built-in flash units.
- 1951: Coaxial cable reaches coast to coast.
- 1952
- 1952: 3-D movies offer thrills to the audience.
- 1952: Bing Crosby's company tests video recording.
- 1952: Wide-screen Cinerama appears; other systems soon follow.
- 1952: Sony offers a miniature transistor radio.
- 1952: EDVAC takes computer technology a giant leap forward.
- 1952: Univac projects the winner of the presidential election on CBS.
- 1952: Telephone area codes.
- 1952: Zenith proposes pay-TV system using punched cards.
- 1952: Sony offers a miniature transistor radio.
- 1953
- 1953: NTSC color standard adopted.
- 1953: CATV system uses microwave to bring in distant signals.
- 1954
- 1954: U.S.S.R. launches Sputnik.
- 1954: Radio sets in the world now outnumber newspapers printed daily.
- 1954: Regular color TV broadcasts begin.
- 1954: Sporting events are broadcast live in color.
- 1954: Radio sets in the world now outnumber daily newspapers.
- 1954: Transistor radios are sold.
- 1955
- 1955: Tests begin to communicate via fiber optics.
- 1955: Music is recorded on tape in stereo.
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- 1956
- 1956: Ampex builds a practical videotape recorder.
- 1956: Bell tests the picture phone.
- 1956: First transatlantic telephone calls by cable.
- 1957
- 1957: Soviet Union's Sputnik sends signals from space.
- 1957: FORTRAN becomes the first high-level language.
- 1957: A surgical operation is televised.
- 1957: First book to be entirely phototypeset is offset printed.
- 1958
- 1958: Videotape delivers color.
- 1958: Stereo recording is introduced.
- 1958: Data moves over regular phone circuits.
- 1958: Broadcast bounced off rocket, pre-satellite communication.
- 1958: The laser.
- 1958: Cable carries FM radio stations.
- 1959
- 1959: Local announcements, weather data and local ads go on cable.
- 1959: The microchip is invented.
- 1959: Xerox manufactures a plain paper copier.
- 1959: Bell Labs experiments with artificial intelligence.
- 1959: French SECAM and German PAL systems introduced.
- 1960
- 1960: Echo I, a U.S. balloon in orbit, reflects radio signals to Earth.
- 1960: In Rhode Island, an electronic, automated post office.
- 1960: A movie gets Smell-O-Vision, but the public just sniffs.
- 1960: Zenith tests subscription TV; unsuccessful.
- 1961
- 1961: Boxing match test shows potential of pay-TV.
- 1961: FCC approves FM stereo broadcasting; spurs FM development.
- 1961: Bell Labs tests communication by light waves.
- 1961: IBM introduces the "golf ball" typewriter.
- 1961: Letraset makes headlines simple.
- 1961: The time-sharing computer is developed.
- 1962
- 1962: Cable companies import distant signals.
- 1962: FCC requires UHF tuners on tv sets.
- 1962: The minicomputer arrives.
- 1962: Comsat created to launch, operate global system.
- 1962: Telstar satellite transmits an image across the Atlantic.
- 1963
- 1963: From Holland comes the audio cassette.
- 1963: Zip codes.
- 1963: CBS and NBC TV newscasts expand to 30 minutes in color.
- 1963: PDP-8 becomes the first popular minicomputer.
- 1963: Polaroid camera instant photography adds color.
- 1963: Communications satellite is placed in geo-synchronous orbit.
- 1963: TV news "comes of age" in reporting JFK assassination.
- 1964
- 1964: Olympic Games in Tokyo telecast live globally by satellite.
- 1964: Touch Tone telephones and Picturephone service.
- 1964: From Japan, the videotape recorder for home use.
- 1964: Russian scientists bounce a signal off Jupiter.
- 1964: Intelsat, international satellite organization, is formed.
- 1965
- 1965: Electronic phone exchange gives customers extra services.
- 1965: Satellites begin domestic TV distribution in Soviet Union.
- 1965: Computer time-sharing becomes popular.
- 1965: Color news film.
- 1965: Communications satellite Early Bird (Intelsat I) orbits above the Atlantic.
- 1965: Kodak offers Super 8 film for home movies.
- 1965: Cartridge audio tapes go on sale for a few years.
- 1965: Most broadcasts are in color.
- 1965: FCC rules bring structure to cable television.
- 1965: Solid-state equipment spreads through the cable industry.
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- 1966
- 1966: Linotron can produce 1,000 characters per second.
- 1966: Fiber optic cable multiplies communication channels.
- 1966: Xerox sells the Telecopier, a fax machine.
- 1967
- 1967: Dolby eliminates audio hiss.
- 1967: Computers get the light pen.
- 1967: Pre-recorded movies on videotape sold for home TV sets.
- 1967: Cordless telephones get some calls.
- 1967: Approx. 200 million telephones in the world, half in U.S.
- 1968
- 1968: FCC approves non-Bell equipment attached to phone system.
- 1968: Intelsat completes global communications satellite loop.
- 1968: Approx. 200 million TV sets in the world, 78 million in U.S.
- 1968: The RAM microchip reaches the market.
- 1969
- 1969: Astronauts send live photographs from the moon.
- 1969: Sony's U-Matic puts videotape on a cassette.
- 1970
- 1970: Postal Reform Bill makes U.S. Postal Service a government corporation.
- 1970: In Germany, a videodisc is demonstrated.
- 1970: U.S. Post Office and Western Union offer Mailgrams.
- 1970: The computer floppy disc is an instant success.
- 1971
- 1971: Intel builds the microprocessor, "a computer on a chip."
- 1971: Wang 1200 is the first word processor.
- 1972
- 1972: HBO starts pay-TV service for cable.
- 1972: Sony introduces 3/4 inch "U-Matic" cassette VCR.
- 1972: New FCC rules lead to community access channels.
- 1972: Polaroid camera can focus by itself.
- 1972: Digital television comes out of the lab.
- 1972: The BBC offers "Ceefax," two-way cable information system.
- 1972: "Open Skies": any U.S. firm can have communication satellites.
- 1972: Landsat I, "eye-in-the-sky" satellite, is launched.
- 1972: Sony's Port-a-Pak, a portable video recorder.
- 1972: "Pong" starts the video game craze.
- 1973
- 1973: The microcomputer is born in France.
- 1973: IBM's Selectric typewriter is now "self-correcting."
- 1974
- 1974: In England, the BBC transmits Teletext data to TV sets.
- 1974: Electronic News Gathering, or ENG.
- 1974: "Teacher-in-the-Sky" satellite begins educational mission.
- 1975
- 1975: The microcomputer, in kit form, reaches the U.S. home market.
- 1975: Sony's Betamax and JVC's VHS battle for public acceptance.
- 1975: "Thrilla' from Manila"; substantial original cable programming.
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- 1976
- 1976: Apple I.
- 1976: Ted Turner delivers programming nationwide by satellite.
- 1976: Still cameras are controlled by microprocessors.
- 1976: British TV networks begin first teletext system.
- 1977
- 1977: Columbus, Ohio, residents try 2-way cable experiment, QUBE.
- 1978
- 1978: From Konica, the point-and-shoot camera.
- 1978: PBS goes to satellite for delivery, abandoning telephone lines.
- 1978: Electronic typewriters go on sale.
- 1979
- 1979: Speech recognition machine has a vocabulary of 1,000 words.
- 1979: Videotext provides data by television on command.
- 1979: From Holland comes the digital videodisc read by laser.
- 1979: In Japan, first cellular phone network.
- 1979: Computerized laser printing is a boon to Chinese printers.
- 1980
- 1980: Sony Walkman tape player starts a fad.
- 1980: In France, a holographic film shows a gull flying.
- 1980: Phototypesetting can be done by laser.
- 1980: Intelsat V relays 12,000 phone calls, 2 color TV channels.
- 1980: Public international electronic fax service, Intelpost, begins.
- 1980: Atlanta gets first fiber optics system.
- 1980: CNN 24-hour news channel.
- 1980: Addressable converters pinpoint individual homes.
- 1981
- 1981: 450,000 transistors fit on a silicon chip 1/4-inch square.
- 1981: Hologram technology improves, now in video games.
- 1981: The IBM PC.
- 1981: The laptop computer is introduced.
- 1981: The first mouse pointing device.
- 1982
- 1982: From Japan, a camera with electronic picture storage, no film.
- 1982: USA Today type set in regional plants by satellite command.
- 1982: Kodak camera uses film on a disc cassette.
- 1983
- 1983: Cellular phone network starts in U.S.
- 1983: Lasers and plastics improve newspaper production.
- 1983: Computer chip holds 288,000 bits of memory.
- 1983: Time names the computer as "Man of the Year."
- 1983: ZIP + 4, expanded 9-digit ZIP code is introduced.
- 1983: AT&T forced to break up; 7 Baby Bells are born.
- 1983: American videotext service starts; fails in three years.
- 1984
- 1984: Trucks used for SNG transmission.
- 1984: Experimental machine can translate Japanese into English.
- 1984: Portable compact disc player arrives.
- 1984: National Geographic puts a hologram on its cover.
- 1984: A television set can be worn on the wrist.
- 1984: Japanese introduce high quality facsmile.
- 1984: Camera and tape deck combine in the camcorder.
- 1984: Apple Macintosh, IBM PC AT.
- 1984: The 32-bit microprocessor.
- 1984: The one megabyte memory chip.
- 1984: Conus relays news feeds for stations on Ku-Band satellites.
- 1985
- 1985: Digital image processing for editing stills bit by bit.
- 1985: CD-ROM can put 270,000 papers of text on a CD record.
- 1985: Cellular telephones go into cars.
- 1985: Synthetic text-to-speech computer pronounces 20,000 words.
- 1985: Picture, broken into dots, can be transmitted and recreated.
- 1985: U.S. TV networks begin satellite distribution to affiliates.
- 1985: At Expo, a Sony TV screen measures 40x25 meters.
- 1985: Sony builds a radio the size of a credit card.
- 1985: In Japan, 3-D television; no spectacles needed.
- 1985: Pay-per-view channels open for business.
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- 1986
- 1986: HBO scrambles its signals.
- 1986: Cable shopping networks.
- 1987
- 1987: Half of all U.S. homes with TV are on cable.
- 1987: Government deregulates cable industry.
- 1988
- 1988: Government brochure mailed to 107 million addresses.
- 1989
- 1989: Tiananmen Square demonstrates power of media to inform the world.
- 1989: Pacific Link fiber optic cable opens, can carry 40,000 phone calls.
- 1990
- 1990: Flyaway SNG aids foreign reportage.
- 1990: IBM sells Selectric, a sign of the typewriter's passing.
- 1990: Most 2-inch videotape machines are also gone.
- 1990: Videodisc returns in a new laser form.
- 1991
- 1991: Beauty and the Beast, a cartoon, Oscar nominee as best picture.
- 1991: CNN dominates news coverage worldwide during Gulf War.
- 1991: Live TV news switching between world capitals during Gulf War looks simple.
- 1991: Denver viewers can order movies at home from list of more than 1,000 titles.
- 1991: Moviegoers astonished by computer morphing in Terminator 2.
- 1991: Baby Bells get government permission to offer information services.
- 1991: Collapse of Soviet anti-Gorbachev plot aided by global system called the Internet.
- 1991: More than 4 billion cassette tape rentals in U.S. alone.
- 1991: 3 out of 4 U.S. homes own VCRs; fastest selling domestic appliance in history.
- 1992
- 1992: Cable TV revenues reach $22 billion.
- 1992: At least 50 U.S. cities have competing cable services.
- 1992: After President Bush speaks, 25 million viewers try to phone in their opinions.
- 1993
- 1993: Dinosaurs roam the earth in Jurassic Park.
- 1993: Unfounded rumors fly that cellphones cause brain cancer.
- 1993: Demand begins for "V-chip" to block out violent television programs.
- 1993: 1 in 3 Americans does some work at home instead of driving to work.
- 1994
- 1994: After 25 years, U.S. government privatizes Internet management.
- 1994: Rolling Stones concert goes to 200 workstations worldwide on Internet "MBone."
- 1994: To reduce Western influence, a dozen nations ban or restrict satellite dishes.
- 1994: Prodigy bulletin board fields 12,000 messages in one after after L.A. quake.
- 1995
- 1995: CD-ROM disk can carry a full-length feature film.
- 1995: Sony demonstrates flat TV set.
- 1995: DBS feeds are offered nationwide.
- 1995: Denmark announces plan to put much of the nation on-line within 5 years.
- 1995: Major U.S. dailies create national on-line newspaper network.
- 1995: Lamar Alexander chooses the Internet to announce presidential candidacy.
Content copyright © 1995-1996, Irving Fang. Graphics and HTML conversion by Kristina Ross. All Rights Reserved.
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Communication Timeline
by Irving Fang
School of Journalism and Mass Communication
University of Minnesota
Minneapolis, MN 55455
fangx001@maroon.tc.umn.edu
