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  • MarketingAdam Smith wrote The Wealth of Nations in 1776, planting the seed for what would become modern marketing. Nearly two centuries later, the American Marketing…
  • MagazineThe word magazine traces its roots to the Arabic term makhanah, meaning depot or storehouse. Originally this referred to military storage for gunpowder and…
  • Television advertisementOn the 1st of July 1941, at 2:30 p.m., a test pattern appeared on New York station WNBT before a baseball game between the Brooklyn Dodgers and Philadelphia…
  • AdvertisingIn 4000 BC, rock art in India displayed commercial messages that would evolve into modern advertising. Ancient Egyptians used papyrus to create sales…
  • Streaming mediaThe word streaming first appeared in the 1970s to describe tape drives made by Data Electronics Inc. These machines needed to ramp up slowly and run…
  • Movie theaterThe Ptuj City Cinema in Slovenia opened its doors on the 3rd of March 1897 and remains the oldest active movie theater in the world.
  • Nielsen Media ResearchArthur C. Nielsen founded his market research firm in 1923, establishing a foundation for what would become the dominant force in American audience…
  • Mass mediaThe first dated print book known as the Diamond Sutra appeared in China in 868 AD. Movable clay type followed in 1041, yet early printed mass media likely…
  • RadioHeinrich Hertz stood in a laboratory on the 11th of November 1886. He held a primitive spark-gap transmitter that generated invisible waves.
  • InternetIn the 1960s, computer scientists began developing systems for time-sharing of computer resources. F. J. Corbató and his team at MIT published The Compatible…
  • MerchandisingIn 1852, Le Bon Marché opened its doors in Paris and changed how people shopped forever. Before this moment, customers entered small shops to request…
  • Targeted advertisingIn 1980, database marketing emerged as a method to personalize customer communications. This early form of targeted advertising allowed companies to track…