Then and Now: Fall 2017

College of Media, Communication and Information is founded.

First iPhone released

Campus Press becomes one of the first online-only college papers

Twitter introduced

YouTube introduced

Facebook introduced

AT&T creates first-ever banner ad

CU student-produced News Team 27 becomes the first local, live TV newscast in Boulder

Xerox Star’s original design led to the now pervasive GUI desktop operating system.

Student AM radio station, KAIR, goes on air at CU Boulder’s campus

Ted Turner launches CNN, the first 24-hour cable news network

Motorola produces first handheld mobile phone

Motorola produces first handheld mobile phone

University creates Institute for Computing Science, which hosts an IBM 709

First video game, Tennis for Two, developed

Watchmaker Bulova runs first-ever TV commercial

Scottish inventor John Logie Baird demonstrates first working television

AT&T runs first-ever radio advertisement

First journalism classes held on CU campus (in English department)

Guglielmo Marconi creates first trans-Atlantic radio broadcast

Rhetoric and Oratory is established as a program of study at CU

University of Colorado established

Antonio Meucci announces design of the first telephone

N. W. Ayer & Son becomes first advertising agency

First telegraphic message

Joseph Niépce takes the first photograph

First Amendment to U.S Constitution is ratified

German-language newspaper recognized as world’s first

Gutenberg press invented

Aristotle writes On Rhetoric