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

Email

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