“Producing in the Multi Media Age” – Jennifer Ellsworth – 11/14/09
Lecture presented at Lehigh University
1440 – Printing Press
German inventor Johannes Gutenberg invented a printing press process.
1831 – Telegraph
Princeton's Joseph Henry published an article, well before Morse, that contained details suggesting the idea of an electric telegraph.
1839 – Photography
Scientist Sir John F.W. Herschel first used the word photography in 1839.
1876 – Telephone
Alexander Bell was awarded the first U.S. patent for the telephone in 1876.
1895 – Radio
Marconi, an Italian inventor, proved the feasibility of radio communication. He sent and received his first radio signal in Italy in 1895.
1895 – Motion Picture
Lumiere and his brother were the first to present projected, moving, photographic, pictures to a paying audience of more that one person.
1939 to 1953 – Television
New York World's Fair, Sarnoff announced the launch of commercial television. Cable television was born in the mountains of Pennsylvania in the late 1940's. A successful color television system began commercial broadcasting, first authorized by the FCC in December 1953.
1972 – Digital Camera
Texas Instruments patented a film-less electronic camera in 1972, the first to do so. In 1991, Kodak released the first professional digital camera system (DCS), aimed at photojournalists.
1973 – Cell Phone
Dr Martin Cooper is considered the inventor of the first portable handset.
1981 – IBM PC Home Computer
1983 – Apple Macintosh
1985 – Microsoft Windows
1996 – Web TV was rolled out
1996/1998 – Google
Google began as a research project, and the company was incorporated as Google Inc. September 1998.
2003 – MySpace
2004 – Facebook
Facebook currently has more than 300 million active users worldwide. A January 2009 Compete.com study ranked Facebook as the most used social network by worldwide monthly active users, followed by MySpace.
2005 – YouTube
2006 – Twitter
World Population - 6,692,030,277
US - 304,059,724
South America - 382,000,000
Africa - 967 million, with about 400 million (42 percent) below age 15
Europe - 731,000,000
Canada - 33,311,389
Australia - 21.4 Million
* 76% of Americans own computers.
* Approx 3-5 % of the world’s population have Internet access. To put this into context only about 25% of the world’s populations sleep in their own bed at night and only about 30% of the world’s populations are wealthy enough to have a bank account.
* The number of mobile phone users worldwide soared to over 3.3 billion at the end of 2007, equivalent to a penetration rate of 49 percent.
|
YEAR |
Population |
Users |
% Pop. |
Broadband |
Usage Source |
|
2000 |
281,421,906 |
124,000,000 |
44.1 % |
n/a |
|
|
2001 |
285,317,559 |
142,823,008 |
50.0 % |
n/a |
|
|
2002 |
288,368,698 |
167,196,688 |
58.0 % |
n/a |
|
|
2003 |
290,809,777 |
172,250,000 |
59.2 % |
n/a |
|
|
2004 |
293,271,500 |
201,661,159 |
68.8 % |
n/a |
|
|
2005 |
299,093,237 |
203,824,428 |
68.1 % |
n/a |
|
|
2007 |
301,967,681 |
212,080,135 |
70.2 % |
n/a |
|
|
2008 |
303,824,646 |
220,141,969 |
72.5 % |
n/a |
|
|
2009 |
307,212,123 |
227,719,000 |
74.1 % |
n/a |
G.N.I.p.c. = Per Capita Gross National Income in US dollars, historic series.
|
Internet Broadband Subscribers in USA
Subscriber Statistics - June 30, 2009 | ||||
|
Providers |
Total Subs. at
End of 2Q 2009 |
New Subs.
during 2Q 2009 |
Change (%) |
|
|
Cable Companies |
38,005,172 |
249,471 |
0.66 % |
|
|
Telephone Companies |
31,897,117 |
384,488 |
1.22 % |
|
|
Total Broadband |
69,902,289 |
633,959 |
0.92 % |
|
|
Sources: The Internet Broadband provider companies and Leichtman Research Group, Inc., June 30,2009. | ||||
http://www.internetworldstats.com/am/us.htm