From Cave Paintings to the Internet A Chronological and Thematic Database on the History of Information and Media Television Outline

Willoughy Smith Discovers the Photoconductivity of Selenium
(1873)

One of the Earliest Systems of Television Transmission
(1880)

The First Separate Publication on Television
(1880)

Probably the Earliest Concept for CRT Television
(June 18, 1908)

An Early Sci-Fi View of the Internet and Virtual Reality
(November 1909)

The First Electronic Television Camera
(1923)

The First Demonstration of Television
(January 26, 1926)

The First Long Distance Test of Television
(April 7, 1927)

The First All-Electronic Television
(September 7, 1927)

The First Television Journal
(March 1928)

"Regular" Television Broadcasting
(May 11, 1928)

The First Experimental Television Service
(1929)

Public Television Broadcasting Begins
(1932)

Frequency Modulation (FM)
(1933 – 1936)

Six TV Stations
(1946)

The World's First Commercial Television Network
(1946 – 1956)

"Mr. Television" Causes the Sale of TV Sets to Double
(1948)

Introduction of Cable Television
(June 1948)

10,000,000 TV Sets
(1949)

Pioneer Televangelist
(1951)

National Educational Television
(1952)

Color Television Broadcasting
(January 22, 1954)

The First Color Television
(March 24, 1954)

The First Satellite to Relay Signals from Earth to Satellite and Back
(June 10, 1962)

"The Medium is the Message"
(1964)

The First Geostationary Communication Satellite
(August 19, 1964)

PBS
(1969)

The First Home Video Game Console
(May 24, 1972)

Digital HD-TV
(1989)

The First Successful Telepresence Company
(1993)

The First Television Series to Use Computer Generated Images
(February 22, 1993 – January 26, 1994)

The First Television Show Broadcast over the Internet
(November 23, 1995)

The First Continuous Live Webcasts
(January 1998)

From Gutenberg to the Internet
(2005)

"Broadcast Yourself"
(February 2005)

Google Buys YouTube
(November 6, 2006)

IBM's Watson Question Answering System Challenges Humans at Jeopardy
(April 27, 2009)

The U.S. Converts from Analog to Digital TV Broadcasting
(June 12, 2009)