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Television Now

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 Television doesn't have as big of an impact as it did once before. TV was once the only thing people would look forward to to catch their weekly shows.  Television first started off as the Nipkow Disc in 1884. This was rotating scanning disc that produced 4,000 pixels per second. Even though it was a big advance in the technology it was proved to be very limited. Nipkow Disc Shortly after in 1923 Vladimir Zworykin created the iconoscope tube which essentially was a television tube. Then in 1929 Zworykin then created the kinescope which is just an improved television tube. As the years went on more upgrades were made to the physical TV to constantly improve it. In the 1950s Lucille Ball took her and her hit show I love Lucy to Hollywood, California. Lucy's choice of going to Hollywood essentially moved the entire television industry from New York to California. I Love Lucy John Walson essentially created cable when he ran a coaxial cable from a tower in his hometown to custome...
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Public Relations with Edward Bernays

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 The phrase public relations or PR is used everyday by almost everyone without even realizing it. The loose definition of public relations is the image or perspective the public has of a company, organization, famous person/image. PR had been used for years before today. From Julius Caesar with his Acta Diurna that he used to create reports for his citizens. He used this system of reporting to show off his achievements, keep morale high, and to keep his reputation. Acta Diurna The great conqueror Genghis Khan  also used PR. Before he would go to battle he would send men in advance of his army to tell tales of his strength and power to get his opponents to surrender before the battle even started. Statue of Genghis Khan The first major pseudo-event in history was the Boston Tea Party . This event was simply to get the attention of the public to their cause and it worked. President Jackson in 1833 hired the very first presidential press secretary to help better his image to the...
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Internet with Microsoft & Apple

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 The internet as we all know it has came a long way to where it is now.  ENIAC 1885 Charles Babbage created the first "computer", In WW2 the British created the Colossus to break German codes down into binary. Shortly after came the ENIAC, the first full-service computer. The creation of the semiconductor caused the production of PCs Then came Bill Gates and the duo of Steve Jobs and Stephen Wozniak Bill Gates Bill Gates was enrolled in Harvard University when he realized the future of computing was in PCs. He then dropped out and started his own company with his friend Paul Allen. Together they licensed their own operating system that everyday people can use. Bill Gates Bill Gates was contracted by IBM after the failure they had in the computer world. IBM used Gates's operating system in it's first IBM PC. With Gates and his Microsoft company keeping the rights to the OS/software of the system allowed them to still be able to sell and market it which allowed the mass...
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