First ever Radio Broadcast
1891
First Ever Television Broadcast‘The Windmill’
1926
First Mass Marketed Camera‘The Brownie’
1900
BBC Formed
1922
First Computer : Z1 AND The BBC opens the world's first regular high-definition television service
1936
Opening of BBC Television Transmitter (made TV available nationally)
1959
1966
1991
Web 1.0
1998
The creation of MP3
Napster- peer to peer file sharing of music in the form of MP3 files.
1999
iPod was launched by Apple.
2001
Apple launched the itunes store
Myspace was launched.
2003
Facebook was launched and became the largest social networking site
Web 2.0
2004
Charts go digital with legal downloads.
2005
YouTube came about
Twitter was launched
2006
Spotify
2008
1891RADIO was invented
1895Frenchman Louis Lumiere is invented the first
motion picture camera
1900-
First camera (The Brownie)
1922
BBC was formed (radio broadcasts)
1926 First television broadcast (a short film showing a
windmill spinning)
1936 First basic computer was invented : Z1
The BBC opens the world's first regular high-definition television service.
1959
Opening of BBC Television Transmitter (made TV available nationally)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ioEcpJSaWww
1966
The first email was sent
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.
1998The creation of MP3
1999Napster peer to peer file sharing of music in the form
of MP3 files.
2001iPod was launched by Apple
2003Apple launched the iTunes store.
MySpace launched
2004Facebook 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.
2005Charts go digital with legal downloads
YouTube was invented
2006
Twitter was launched
ICONIC FILMS/TVAside 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!
*1901: First Silent Movie‘The Great Train Robbery’
1921: ‘The Kid’Starring Charlie Chaplin
1939: ‘The Wizard of Oz’*Key Film : Transition from black and white
1946: It’s a Wonderful Life
1965: ‘The Sound of Music’
1975: ‘Jaws’
1982: ‘E.T’
*1996: ‘Trainspotting’‘Choose life’
2001: Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone
2008: Twilight
TODAY: The Hunger Games