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Storytelling timeline

Marissa De Ruiter

Created on November 30, 2023

An English lesson (work in progress), on storytelling and the way it has changed since the beginning.

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A timeline of storytelling

Storytelling

From Cave drawings to Tik Tok

1851

1820

1837

1864

1899

1814

3,400-3,100 BCE

15th century

40,000 BCE

1888

Hans Christian oersted: found that the magnetic field is created around a wire that has a current running through it.

Louis Daguerro: introduces the daguerrotype, a fixed image that did not fade.

James Clerk Maxwell:

Guglielmo Marconi: an italian inventor.

Frederick Scott Archer: Inveted the Collodion process, which reduced light exposure time to just 2-3.

Printing became mechanized in Europe during the 15th century

Joseph Neipce- Achieves the first photographic image using a camera called the obscura.

Storytelling originated with visual stories, such as cave drawings.

George Eastman: Patens Kodak roll-film camera.

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A timeline of storytelling

Storytelling

From Cave Drawings to Tik Tok

1900

1906

1918

1934

1907

1927

1925

Reginald Fessenden

The first mass-marketed camera, the Brownie, goes on sale.

Edwin Armstrong

General Electric invents the modern flash bulb.

Lee De Forest: American Invetor

Johm Logie Baird

The first television set was available for anyone to buy by Telefunken.

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A Timeline of Storytelling

Storytelling

From Cave Drawings to Tik Tok

1963

1978

1946

1948

1954

Polaroid introduces the instand color film

1948

Konica introduces the first point-and-shoot autofocus camera.

The world's first general purpose computer was shown to the world.

Edwin Land: Launches the Polaroid camera.

Colored television

Frederic Williams, Tom Kilburn, and Geoff Toothill

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A Timeline of Storytelling

Storytelling

From Cave Drawings to Tik Tok

1984-now

1993

1984

Cameras have changed drastically. Do you think pictures will ever become obsolete?

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1997

The first smartphone

Canon demonstrates first digital electronic still camera.

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Six Degrees

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A Timeline of Storytelling

Storytelling

From Cave Drawings to Tik Tok

2002

2007

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2003-2005

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2000

2003

2006

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Friendster

Youtube

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Facemash, "The Facebook", and "Facebook"

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Hot or Not

Myspace

Twitter

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Lee De Forest

American Inventor

"...introduced his patented Audion signal detector--which allowed radio frequency signals to be amplified dramatically."

1925

A television system

"The first device you could call a 'television system' under these definitions was created by John Logie Baird. A Scottish engineer, his mechanical television used a spinning 'Nipkow disk,' a mechanical device to capture images and convert them to electrical signals. These signals, sent by radio waves, were picked up by a receiving device. Its own disks would spin similarly, illuminated by a neon light to produce a replica of the original images. Baird's first public demonstration of his mechanical television system was somewhat prophetically held at a London Department store way back in 1925." (History Cooperative)

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American Inventor

"...developed the superheterodyne circuit in 1918, and in 1933 discovered how FM broadcasts could be produced. FM provided a clearer broadcast signal than AM, but RCA's top executive, David Sarnoff, was pushing for the development of television. Sarnoff witheld FM from the public for more than a decade." (PBS).

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Reginald Fessenden

The man who changed the limits

"In September, 1899, he astounded the world by telegraphing the results of the America's Cup yacht races from a ship at sea to a land-based station in New York. By the end of 1901, Marconi had founded his own commercial wireless company and broadcast the first transatlantic signal. " (PBS).

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1948

University of Manchester

They developed, "...the Small-Scale Experimental Machine (SSEM), better known as the Manchester "Baby." The Baby was built to test a new memory technology developed by Williams and Kilburn--soon known as the Williams Tube - which was the first high-speed electronic random access memory for computers. Their first program, consisting of seventeen instructions and written by Kilburn, ran on June 21st, 1948. This was the first program in history to run on a digital, electronic, stored-program computer." (Computer History)

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American Inventor

"...developed the superheterodyne circuit in 1918, and in 1933 discovered how FM broadcasts could be produced. FM provided a clearer broadcast signal than AM, but RCA's top executive, David Sarnoff, was pushing for the development of television. Sarnoff witheld FM from the public for more than a decade." (PBS).

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1993

IBM

The first smartphone was designed by IBBM and sold by BellSouth (who were formerly part of AT&T) in 1993. It had a touchscreen for using a calendar, address book, calculator, and other functions.

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1954

NTSC standard

"The ability of television systems to broadcast and receive color occurred relatively early in the evolution of electronic television. Patens for color television existed from the late nineteenth century, and john Baird regularly broadcast from a color television system in the thirties. The National Television System Committee 9NTSC) met in 1941 to develop a standardized system for television broadcasts, ensuring that all television stations used similar systems to ensure that all televesision systems could receive them. The committee, created the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), would meet again only twelve years later to agree upon a standard for color television. However, a problem faced by television networks was that color broadcasting required extra radio bandwidth...The color viewing was available to so few systems because a particular receiver was required." (History Cooperative).

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Twitter

The first tweet ever, posted by the co-founder Jack Dorsey said, "just setting up my twttr." and really set the tone for future tweets. Dorsey originally envisioned twtty as a text message based tool for sending updates between friends.

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Friendster

Was originally going to be a dating site that would help set up people with friends in common. You could create a profile, include "status updates" and reveal your mood. Unfortunately, the site's spike in popularity in 2003 caught the company by surprise. The flood of traffic took a toll on Friendsters servers, impacting users, who increasingly looked to connect elsewehere.

MySpcae

Frienderster's rival, quickly became the go-to site for millions of teens. Its customizable public profiles (which often featured music, videos, and badly shot selfies) were visible to anyone, a contrast to Friendster's private profiles.

Mark Zuckerberg

In 2003, he launched Facemash which has been described as Harvard University's answer to hot or Not. "The Facebook" followed in 2004. Registering its one-millionth user that same year, the site became just "Facebook" in 2005.

Between its beta stage in May 2005 and December 2005 launch, the site gathered nearly eight million daily views. Ahead of its acquisition by Google in the fall of 2006, the site grew to 100 million videos watched by 20 million dedicated users. In May 2007, Youtube introduced its partnership program. The partnership program made it possible for Youtubers like Mr. Beast to make millions today. This moment essentially marked the beginning of the social media influencers.