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
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
