AOL Instant Messenger
On December 15, AOL Instant Messenger will be shutting down for the final time after 20 years of service. AOL Instant Messenger, AIM, was created in 1997 by AOL accidentally... More
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The Revolution of the Mobile Phone and It’s Revolutionary Aspects
When the public mobile phone was first invented in the 1940s (Farley, 2005) it did not have the advanced design and capabilities that it has now. Additionally, More
The Revolutionary Significance of Facebook
In 2008, a man called Oscar Morales used Facebook to rally 12million people to protest against Colombian communist guerrilla Organiation Farc. At the same year, a Facebook... More
Revolutions and Meanings of Radio
The invention of radio broadcasting took a long time. In the year of 1864, British scientist James Clerk Maxwell conjured that " an electromagnetic disturbance travels in free space with... More
What has the iPhone done to our lives?
For it’s 10 year anniversary, I think it’s appropriate to take a look back at how the iPhone came into our lives one summer day and drastically changed not only... More
Will Video Conferencing Become the Preferred Communication Tool?
Every invention of technology aims at providing people with convenience and efficiency, communicative technologies enable people to exchange information at any time and everywhere. Thanks to the emergence of Internet... More
Past and Future: Revolutions and Renaissance of Radio
“As the first modern mass medium, radio made America into a land of listeners,” Tom Lewis pointed out (1992, p.26). With ears and imagination, people embraced a new world. Radio... More
From Teleprinter To Microblogging
As the teleprinter was first invented by engineers, inventors and users in 1830s would never imagine that this technology could be evolved to something that could easily allow users to... More
From Radio to Twitter, Easier for Social Movement?
Communication is vital to human life since we are social beings. Thousands of years ago, our ancestors exchanged information via language, icons, and bell drums, etc. However, how to communicate... More
From Television to Twitter: How Media Influence the Presidential Election in the United States
The history of the television can be driven back to late 19th and early 20th. The invention of television is regarded as the combined work of many individual scientists all... More