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Inca Empire (used knotted cords)
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Jan 1, 1450
The Gutenberg press in Mainz,Germany
In 1450 Johannes Gutenberg made his first printing press.
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Earliest newspaper advertisements
The earliest newspaper advertisement, an announcement seeking a buyer for an Oyster Bay, was published in the colonies's first continuously published newspaper, the Boston News-Letter, in 1704. Imported goods, runaway slaves, sales of slaves and sailings from Boston were the concerns of these early ads, according to American Media History. -
First magazine ad
Benjamin Franklin, whom some refer to as the father of American advetising, also would have the distinction of being the first to print an advertisement in a magazine. On May 10, 1741, his General Magazine printed a notice about a ferry. It ran under the title "Advertisement."
A 295-Year Synopsis of the Most Important Events in American Advertising, 1704 to 1999 -
First African-American newspaper in U.S.: Freedom’s Journal
As the first African American owned and operated newspaper published in the United States, Freedom's Journal was published weekly in New York City from 16 March 1827 to 28 March 1829.
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First Native American newspaper in U.S.: Cherokee Phoenix
The Cherokee Phoenix, the first Native American newspaper in the United States, was first printed in Febuary 21, 1828 in New Echota, Georgia, the capital of the Cherokee Nation. The paper was published weekly until May 1834, when the Cherokee annuity was not paid and the presses came to a stop. But The Cherokee Phoenix was revived in the twentieth century, and today it publishes on the Web! -
America's first advertising agent
Volney Palmer, who started the first advertising agency in 1842, was primarily a space broker. Through he used the words "Advertising Agency" in one of his advertisement in 1849, he was in fact America's first advertising agent. He worked for the newspapers, not the advertisers. Functioning as a space salesman, he offered advertisers a list of publications in which he had exclusive space-selling rights. He offered free estimates, and collected a 25 percent commission from the newspapers. -
Telegraph
Invented in 1845 by Samuel F.B. Morse, the telegraph used electricity and a standard signal system - Morse Code - to transmit messages over wired networks. Telegraph systems appeared in cities and towns, between populated areas, and followed the routes of the railroads.
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Associated Press founded
Associated Press is a not-for-profit news cooperative formed in the spring of 1845 by five daily newspapers in New York City to share the cost of transmitting news of the Mexican-American War by boat, horse express, and telegraph. These Five, The Sun, The New York Herald, The New York Evening Express, The Courier and Herald and The Journal of Commerce were the start of Associated Press. -
The First Transcontinental Railroad completed
The First Transcontinental Railroad in the United States was built in the 1860s, linking the well developed railway network of the Eastern coast with rapidly growing California. The main line was officially completed on May 10, 1869. The vast number of people who traveled the line, and the network that followed, set the USA on the path to economic abundance. It also ended the centuries old way of life of the Naive Americans and greatly altered the environment.
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First full-service agency
Francis Wayland Ayer couldn't understand how Rowell and other space brokers could represent the advertiser while being paid by the publisher. At age twenty, he had a better idea -- a full-service agency that would create, produce, and place ads while offering counsel and eventually a crude type of research. He founded N.W. Ayer and Son in 1969 in Philadelphia. How Advertising and Marketing Got Started -
The White House Wedding 1886
President Grover Cleveland married Frances Folsom in a private White House ceremony in 1886. Cleveland was the only president whose wedding took place in the White House, and at 21, Frances became the youngest First Lady.
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George Eastman introduces the Kodak camera
Video - before the brownie: the first Eastman Kodak camera (circa 1888) The name "Kodak" was born and the KODAK camera was placed on the market, with the slogan, "You press the button - we do the rest." This was the birth of snapshot photography, as millions of amateur picture-takers know it today.
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Motion Pictures/ Cinema
America at Work, America at Leisure: Motion Pictures from 1894-1915The first commerical exhibition of motion pictures was given in New York City using 10 Kinetoscopes. -
"Stunt Girl" Nellie Bly circles the world
Student-made video: National History Day Documentary 2009- Nellie Bly This intrepid female reporter made the journey in just 72 days, using many different forms of transportation, including ship, train, jinricksha, sampan, horse, and burro.
With the book Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Vern, Phileas T. Fogg, traveled around the globe in precisely 80 . days. But Nellie Bly spent 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes, and 14 seconds after setting sail to prove she could circle the globe in less than 80 days. -
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Commercially made television sets sold
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Electronic Computer invented
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Internet
The history of the Internet began with the development of computers in the 1950s. This began with point-to-point communication between mainframe computers and terminals, expanded to point-to-point connections between computers and then early research into packet switching.Since the mid-1990s the Internet has had a drastic impact on culture and commerce. The Internet? Bah! (NewsWeek 1995 Feb. 26) -
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Korean War
This war is so-called Korean War, the first major armed conflict between “Free World” and “Communist Forces” in Korean Peninsula, where Republic of Korea was primarily supported by United States and Democratic People’s Republic of Korea was primarily supported by Union of Soviet since after World War II.
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See It Now
Created by Edward R. Murrow and Fred W. Friendly, See It Now was an adaptation of radio. According to American Media History, field producer for See It Now Joe Wershba called Murrow and Friendly shatterers. "They shattered mountains. They moved intor a new field. Neither of them knew a thing about filmmaking." -
Assassination of John F. Kennedy
Walter Cronkite announces death of JFK on TVThe assassination of John F. Kennedy, the thirty-fifth President of the United States, took place on Friday, November 22, 1963, in Dallas, Texas, USA at 12:30 p.m. CST (18:30 UTC).
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Television coverage in Vietnam War
Vietnam on televisionVietnam War was called the first television war because in 1960s television became our electronic window on the world.
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Tet Offensive
The Tet Offensive: the turning point in the Vietnam War – Part OneThe Tet Offensive was a military campaign during the Vietnam War that was launched on January 30, 1968 by forces of the People's Army of Vietnam against the forces of the Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam), the United States, and their allies. The Tet Offensive was the real turning point in the Vietnam War. -
Manned Moon Landing
Space race between Soviet Union and the U.S. shows intense competition during cold war. One the way of attaining more firsts in moon race, the U.S. successfully became the first nation that had humans to set foots on the moon on July 20, 1969.
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Internet Invented
After the launch of Sputnik the US military created the Advanced Research Projects Agency (ARPA) which developed the world wide web and the first launch was from UCLA on October 29 1969.
"A network of such [computers], connected to one another by wide-band communication lines [which provided] the functions of present-day libraries together with anticipated advances in information storage and retrieval and [other] symbiotic functions."
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Nixon visit to China
VideoU.S. President Richard Nixon's first visit to the People's Republic of China was an important step in formally normalizing relations between the United States and the People's Republic of China (PRC). -
Watergate scandal
young The Washington Post reporters, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward covered up the scandal and followed up the whole process of investigation. It's a remarkable time to show journalism's role in politics.
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First laptop
The IBM 5100, the first commercially available portable computer, appeared in September 1975, and was based on the SCAMP prototype. The first laptops using the flip form factor appeared in the early 1980s. -
First Bulletin Board System (BBS)
Two Chicago computer hobbyists invented the bulletin board system (BBS) to inform friends of meetings, make announcements and share information through postings. It was the rudimentary beginning of a small virtual community. Trolling and flame wars began. -
The invention of the Internet
The internet changed the way everyone worked with computers, since the 19th century inventors have been trying to figure out the internert and hwo to put it into effect. The impact of the internet made everyone scared to think that one computer could hold such power. but now the internet is useful for so many things research,news,information or entertainment. -
U.S. bombing of the Chinese embassy in Belgrade
CIA calls in cruise Missile Airstrike on the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade (May 7, 1999) During the NATO bombing of Yugoslavia (Operation Allied Force), five US JDAM bombs deliberately hit the People's Republic of China embassy in the Belgrade district of New Belgrade, killing three Chinese reporters on May, 7, 1999. It outraged the Chinese public and harmed China-U.S. relation badly. -
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Facebook
Mark Zukerberg launched what is today's leading social networking site. How Facebook Was Founded - Business Insider
