1、The History of MediaToday, when we talk about Internet and TV, maybe we do not even know who invented the television. But when we think of the history of media, it is truly a big world.Before the Flood3000 BCThe first book in the world, which made by papyrus, was used in Egypt. I think the start of
2、media is the papyrus, and the word “paper” comes from it, because media is a tool which can communicate and spread information to others. Have this “paper”, have this info. About 2000500BCEgypt(19911788BC), China(about 1300BC), Persia(600529BC), were build their post and dak system. This system is r
3、uled by government, and it only sends document and imperial edict and other important message.About 650BCThe last emperor of Assyria build the first library in the west Asia , where collected 20,000 shale books . This is a very big progress in the sector of media, it means the info can keep for post
4、erity to read and broad. About 8003BCAn anonym devise a new paper, which called lambskin (800BC200BC), led to a revolution in the history of book. It threw a light upon paper, and used cattle, sheep and other skin as raw materials, which can have a better texture to write.About the same time, the ea
5、st world, represented by China, invented the paper (523BC) manufactured by twine and nets. This greatly reduced the cost of making paper and gave common people to know some “details” about his or her country. It also give chance to transmit the Classic, like The Four Books .Age of BarbarismAbout 59B
6、C1279Julius Caesar set the Daily Chronicle (59BC) and Octavian promote the Daily News (6BC), broad Roman words to its client state.At this time, a new thing born in the east world, which called the Stone Classics. It includes Confucianism and Buddhist. Xipin Stone Classic was carved in 175 to 183, Z
7、hengshi Stone Classic was carved in 221.About 724, the first newspaper was produced in China. “Kaiyuan Daily News” was estimated only a handwritten newspaper. However, it is the first prototype of todays newspaper.In the Song Dynasty of China (9601279), the mansion paper appeared. The contents of it
8、 are the daily life and edict of the emperor and the appointment and removal of officials etc. The paper was sent by dak and it published regularly.Industrial civilizationFrom 14th century to 17th centuryThe first state: The emergence and prevalence of handwriting paper.Using print method to produce
9、 newspaper was probably appeared in 1450 Europe. From 14th century to 15th century in Venice, the way was very popular. And it quickly spread to the Europe. In the early 17th century it reached the high tide. At the end of 17th century this measure withered away gradually.The second state: The emerg
10、ence of the book news.The News Books first appeared in Frankfurt, and also present itself in 1588 at Austria, and 1620 at Netherlands. Comparing with notes, the printed book obviously increased. But it also has a lot of disadvantages, such as the publication date is not fixed and the news is behind
11、the time. The third state: The production of weekly and dailyAugsburg, Germany published “German observe weekly” in 1609 and France put out “Frankfurt Post”. Most of European countries have their own daily or weekly in the half past 17th century. Because of the complexity of the technology required,
12、 it makes the newspaper become a capitalist enterprise.Before the modern timeFrom 17th century to 19th centuryTelegraph: The telegraph was invented in 1837 two Englishman named Cook and Wheatstone. It makes media spread much faster than before, other industry of media also gains lots of supports fro
13、m it.Phone: The phone was devised by Antonio Meucci, an Italian. For media, it makes reporter feed information back more quickly and then the news was timelier. Camera: A tech called Silver Edition Photography was made by Daguerre, a Frenchman. It means reporter can save the “time”. To record some i
14、mportant scene and actions, the media was livelier than past. Modern timeVideo camera: A company called Ampex of the U.S.A., bring this new item to world. This tool gives reporter a chance to cover lively and people can know everything around his or her city.Internet: About 1990s, this “net” comes t
15、o world. It is truly an amazing thing! We can read news and watch video and make friends at Facebook or Twitter at home and we will not behind the time. But it also do harm on media, a lot of newspapers can not sell and most of websites are “free”(except ads).Mobile phone: One day in April 1973, a man standing on the streets of New York, took out a “mobile phone” about two brick size and played a pass. This man was the handsets inventor Martin Cooper. Nowadays, most of people have mobile, and the networking of it is more and more popular. From: Baidu 报纸哥 慧聪网 严肃的朋克