MEDIJI KROZ ISTORIJU
MEDIA THROUGH HISTORY

Summary/Abstract: All the way through the history and until the modern society media have been means of communication adapting to the social changes. Their influence of the process of social changes is marginal without clearly indicated effect. In today's society undergoing transition, which is a characteristic of every historical period in the development of the society nowadays happening much faster than before, there is an undergoing process of media freeing from the control of the state and becoming independent. This process is changing the role and the function of the media in the society in comparison to the previous time periods. Newspaper were the first real media for mass communication and many other media joined during the 19th and 20th century. The first in the line was photography whose official date of birth is the year 1837. Wireless telegraph quickly conquered the world. Following the footsteps of Marconi, numerous researchers started looking for the possibilities of wireless transfer of Morse code as well as broadcasting and receiving speech and audio signals. Radio as media quickly became extremely popular and the whole families gathered in the evening by the radio receiver to listen to the concerts, radio dramas, news etc. In 1926, about forty years later, John Logie Baird publicly displayed distance broadcasting of live images in London. It will take another ten years for the series of technical discoveries and improvements in order for BBC to initiate the first regular TV broadcasting in the world in 1936. The term internet first appeared in 1983 following the merge between Arpanet and several other communication networks. However, the real boom in the development of this world wide network occurs in 1993 when Tim Berners-Lee provided, for free, address indexing system which he established and which is known as www (World Wide Web).

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