The order in which things happened...

New Media History In Brief

When someone said they thought TV was as old as newspapers the reply was, "Well, no. In the long history of mass media, newspapers are eight times older than television." That conversation highlighted the need for a clarification of the relative age of New Media. They are not that old, really. In fact, TV is about eight times older than many New Media.

	Web pages (Mosaic) - 1993
	Yahoo! - January 1994
	Wiki - March 1995
	Blogging - December 1997
	Google - September 1998
	Wikipedia - January 2001
	iPod - October 2001
	Second Life - June 2003
	MySpace - August 2003
	Facebook - February 2004
	Podcasting - September 2004
	Digg - December 2004
	YouTube - February 2005
	Twitter - March 2006

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