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  • 1st Public Demo of Electronic Television

    8/25/34
  • First Television Broadcast NBC/RCA

    July 7, 1936
  • NBC Begins First Regularly Scheduled TV

    4/30/39
  • Network Transmissions Begin on NBC, CBS, ABC

    1944–1948
  • WOW-TV Omaha signs on

    8/29/49
  • First National Color Television Broadcast

    1/1/54
  • 100 Million TV Sets

    1960
  • Walt Disney's Wonderful World of Color

    September 1961
  • First Live Worldwide Television Broadcast via Telstar Satelite

    July 23, 1962
  • 200 Million TV Sets

    1968
  • First Moonwalk on TV

    July 20, 1969
  • RCA introduces the TK-76 ENG Camera at NAB

    1975
  • Betamax, VHS VCRs Introduced to Market

    November 1975 – September 1976
  • 300 Million TV Sets

    1979
  • Last M*A*S*H Episode

    2/28/83
  • First Blockbuster Video store opens in Dallas

    October 19, 1985
  • Commercial Internet

    1/1/95
  • 1 Billion TV Sets

    1996
  • First Public HDTV Broadcast

    7/23/96
  • Final Cut

    April 1999
  • Podcast Mechanism invented

    January 2001
  • DVD bypasses VCR

    2001
  • YouTube Activated

    2/14/05
  • Apple Adds Podcasts to iTunes

    June 2005
  • CVS "Pure Digital Point & Shoot" (Flip Video Camcorder)

    5/1/06 – 4/1/11
  • Steve Jobs introduces the iPhone

    6/29/07
  • Canon EOS 5D Mk II

    9/17/08
  • Apple iPhone 3GS

    6/8/09
  • US Switch to HD TV

    6/12/09
  • First 3D LED HDTV

    2010
  • Skype Video Calling for iOS

    January 2011
  • iPhone 4 Most Popular Camera on Flickr

    6/22/11
  • Apple iPhone 4S

    10/4/11
  • First 4K TV

    June 26, 2013
  • Apple iPhone 5S

    September 2013
  • Apple iPhone 6/6 Plus

    9/19/14
  • Apple iPhone 6S

    September 9, 2015
  • Apple iPhone 7

    September 16, 2016
  • Apple iPhone X

    September 12, 2017
  • Apple iPhone 8

    September 12, 2017
  • Apple iPhone Xr

    September 12, 2018
  • Apple iPhone Xs

    September 12, 2018