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The Han dynasty established the tipao news sheets in the second century of the Common Era. These handwritten documents circulated among court officials to report on imperial events and predate European newspapers by over a millennium.
The first formalized newspaper was Relation aller Fürnemmen und gedenckwürdigen Historien published in Germany in 1605. This document mashed together unrelated reports from far-flung locations into a jarring new format for readers.
Charles-Louis Havas founded Bureau Havas in Paris in 1832. He initially used the French government's optical telegraph network and later began using pigeons for communications to Paris, London, and Brussels before adopting the electric telegraph.
The British Broadcasting Company began transmitting radio news from London in 1922. This service was dependent entirely on British news agencies and marketed itself as news by and for social elites.
The Netscape browser was released in 1994 to make the internet available to a wider public. The 1994 earthquake in California was one of the first big stories to be reported online in real time following this release.