HISTORY OF THE NEW MEDIA

New media are forms of media that are computational and rely on computers for redistribution. Some examples of new media are computer animations, computer games, human-computer interfaces, interactive computer installations, websites, and virtual worlds.

Timeline of Events New Media

1989	Tim Berners-Lee, a British scientist, invented the World Wide Web
1992	Tim Berners-Lee posts the first photo ever to be on the internet .
1993	CERN introduces the World Wide Web to the world.
1994	‘Yahoo!’ is created by Stanford University graduate students .
1996	Nokia, the first mobile phone with internet capabilities.
1997	Electronics companies agree to make Wi-Fi a  for wireless Internet.
1998	AOL launches AOL 4.0 and inundates American homes with CD-ROM mailers.
1999	‘Yahoo!’ buys GeoCities for $3.6 billion.  AOL acquires Time Warner for $165 billion.
2001	Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger founded and launched Wikipedia.
2002	Microsoft launches Xbox Live, its online multiplayer gaming service.
2003	Apple launches the iTunes Music Store with 200,000 songs at 99¢ each.
2004	Mozilla releases Firefox 1.0 and Google acquires YouTube for $1.65 billion.
2007	Apple releases its first touch screen iPhone, priced at $499 for 4GB and $599 for 8G.
2008	HTML5 is introduced.
2009	Twitter raises $98 million from investors, valuing the company at a $1 billion.
2010	Apple releases its touchscreen tablet computer, the iPad.
2011	Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion.
2012	Facebook reaches 1 billion monthly active users.
2013	Apple says app store downloads top 40 billion, with 20 billion in 2012 alone.
2014	Facebook buys messaging app Whatsapp for $19 billion.
2015	Instagram, the photo-sharing site, reaches 400 million users.
2016	The number 1 Youtube video to go viral in 2016 — Adele singing on James Corden’s .
2017	Apple launched their new iphone X.