1. History about Media

2. Modern Media
• Media with storage and transmission began more than 30000
years ago (cave painting)
This is a 16000 year old
cave painting from
Lascaux, France

3.  The first alphabet is over
3000 years old

4. Diamond Sutra
1st Dated book printed in wooden
blocks
• Printed in China in 6 C.E
•
Gutenberg Press
• Johannes Gutenberg invented the 1st printing
press
• He printed 180 copies in Europe – 1455 C.E
News Paper- 1640
• With mass printing available newspaper could
be made
• 1640 in England- London Gazette in 1666 was
the 1st commercial newspaper

5. Phonograph – home audio
• Patented by Thomas Edison in 1877
• We can finally store and transmit audio
Photographs
• The idea is more than 1000 years old
• George Eastman made it more available in public in
1888- founded the Eastman Kodak Company in 1892
Radio - 1894
• Finally wireless and paperless transmission is
available
• Nikola Tesla was most likely 1st to do it

6. Movie Theatres
 1st public movie show in
New York, 1896
 Now we can store and
transmit video
First full length film (12 minutes)
was The Great Train Robbery made
in 1903

7. Television – 1st colored
T.V (1936)
• First black and white
then colored
• Philo Farnswoth in
1928 was the inventor

8. Business
Computers
- not for home
they were huge
- IBM Business
Computer 1964
Video players
(1971)
Sony made the
1st VCR Publically
(1971) - cost
$1400
Video
Cassettes1976
- A long battle
between VHS
and Betamax
- VHS wins the
battle

9. Walkman-1979
CD Players- 1982
Digital Cameras
- Take your music
with you
- Play better
quality music at
home
- Invented in 1950’s
- Revolutionary
portable media
- Consumer could
buy them in 1994
- Apple / Kodak both
made consumer
cameras

10. PERSONAL COMPUTERS
-Apple Computers in 1976
-Apple I and Apple II, TRS-80
and Commodore computers
were released in this era
Personal Computers 1977-81
- 1981 IMB – PC
Price $4000
Personal Computers 1984
- 1984 Macintosh = $2495
Hard Drive = $1500

11. From 1997 - Today
 Computers have advanced rapidly
 They have come from massive machines to small laptops
with more power
 Computers are used in many parts of our daily life

12.  Very popular can play more than just one song
 Extension of Walkman and Discman
Personal Media Player - 2002