Tech timeline

The Rise of Media

  • The First Australian Newspaper

    The First Australian Newspaper
    In 1803 the Sydney Gazette was published and was classified the first Australian Newspaper Published.
  • The Computer

    The Computer
    Charles Babbage technically invented the computer which was also known as the abacus.
  • The Fax Machine

    The Fax Machine
    The fax machine was invented in 1843 by Alexander Bain.
  • Telegraph was Introduced

    Telegraph was Introduced
    The telegraph was first introduced in 1844 from Washington to Baltimore.
  • Telephone

    Telephone
    The telephone was born in 1876 and then only a year later In 1877-78, the first telephone line was constructed. Then almost three years later, almost 49,000 telephones were in use.
  • First Radio Signal

    First Radio Signal
    The first radio single was recorded to be in 1895 by Guglielmo Marconi.
  • ABC Begins

    ABC Begins
    ABC in Australia begin in 1932 and still on air in 2017.
  • Television to Australia

    Television to Australia
    Television was first introduced to Australia to coincide with the Melbourne Olympic Games. It took only 8 years for 80% of all Australian households to own a television sets.
  • The First Hacker

    The First Hacker
    The first hacker was in 1963 named Kevin David Mitnick who hacked into the American computer security.
  • First Email

    First Email
    The first email program was developed in 1975 and the first email was sent from Kevin McKenzie who emailed the MsgGroup.
  • The term Cyberspace was Born

    The term Cyberspace was Born
    The term Cyberspce was born by William Gibson in 1984 which can be described as how computer users can inhabit a new kind of mental space, within and between computers' ( Bainbridge, 2015 ).
  • The first blog

    The first blog
    In 1994 the first blog post was created by US College student Justin Hall on link.net.
  • MP3 Player

    MP3 Player
    The first portable music device was introduced the Saehin / Eiger Labs engineers. Even though portable music devices before the MP3 had been around for awhile ( Cassette Players and Walkmens). The MP3 was the first portable device that required no additional disk. This technology has forever changed how we share and listen music.
  • Google

    Google
    Google was founded by Larry Page and Sergey Brin who were both Ph.D students at Stanford University. Interesting fact is that google is so well known that the name has become a verb.
  • Wikipedia

    Wikipedia
    Wikipedia was founded by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger in 2001. This internet site is still used in 2017.
  • Myspace

    Myspace
    Myspace was the first social media that i was aware existed since then other platforms of social media have over taken the myspace for popularity
  • Facebook

    Facebook
    Facebook was founded my Mark Zuckerberg in 2004. There are currently 2 Billion actives users on Facebook and the number is only rising daily.
  • Youtube

    Youtube
    Youtube was founded by previous employees of PayPal in 2005. Youtube is a social media platform where users can upload,create,share, comment on and view videos. According to an article by Huffington Post there are currently 1 billion active users on Youtube (Huffington Post, 2016).
  • Twitter

    Twitter
    In 2015, twitter reported 288 million monthly active users. Twitters coming of age was throughout the 2008 Mumbai Bombing.
  • WikiLeaks

    WikiLeaks
    The founder of WikiLeaks Julian Assange created WikiLeaks in 2006 but didn't become a household name until 2010 when he published a series of leaks from Chelsea Manning.
  • Snapchat

    Snapchat
    It's only been 6 years since the release of snapchat but currently has 158 million users in the world and the number is only growing daily.