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Austriaintroducesthefirstpostcards. For only pennies, postcards keep people in touch before telephones are common. Calling cards, commercial valentines and other printed personal greetings are popular customs.
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Thomas Edison patents a practical electric
lightbulb. Electriclights have a profound effect on society, increasing opportunities for reading, writing, socializing
and working.
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computers become available to
the mass market, thus paving the way for desktop publishing.
By 1990, laptop notebook computers allowpeople to compute from almost anywhere.
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Movie making
experiences a “golden age” in the late
1930s and early 1940s. In 1939, Gone With the Windand
The WizardofOz premiere. Citizen Kane follows in 1941, wiCasablanca'xn 1942. Studio giants are MGM, Paramount, RKOand Warner Brothers.
U.S. women winrlghi tovole.
Drive-ln thealers attraci crowds.
MTV goes on air.
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Millions of people worldwide cruise the Information Highwayvia the Internet, and instantaneous e-mail communication becomes common. As the millennium ends, computer, TV, video and telephone technologies begin to converge.
Television is invented in 1926, and regular network TVbroadcasts begin after World War II. OneofTV’smostpopularshowsisCBS’s “I Love Lucy,” premiering in 1951. Television transforms almost every aspect of life in the twentieth century.
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fans and makes him “the King" of rock and roll. In 1956, his debut album becomes the first in history to sell a million copies.
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Graham Bell patents the telephone.
By the end of the millennium, missing
a phone call is almost impossible as answering machines take instant messages. Cellphones,
beepers and voice
mail expand communication options.
Guglielmo Marconi invents the radio, providing a way for sound to travel long distances without the use of wires. During the 1920s and 1930s, radio is the primary source of news and family entertainment for most Americans.
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