TECHNOLOGY - February 1994 —Â Yahoo is started as a personal list of sites by David Filo and Jerry Yang, Ph.D. candidates in electrical engineering at Stanford. Yahoo stands for “Yet Another Hierarchical Officious Oracle.”
- April 4, 1994 — The Netscape Communications Corporation is founded by Marc Andreessen and Jim Clark.
- “The Magic Box: Time Warner is testing its futuristic vision of services that will be available from the TV. But how much interaction do Americans really want?”
The New Yorker, April 11, 1994. - The JPEG standard is officially approved. (JPEG images will play an important part in the future use of digital photographs and graphics on the Web.)
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Although professional photographers began experimenting with digital photography in 1979, the Associated Press and Kodak introduce the NC2000, the first digital camera specifically designed for photojournalists, in 1994. Early digital cameras were very expensive. It would be a number of years before they became popular with the general public. (See also: “ A Bird’s View of History: The Digital Camera and the Ever-Changing Landscape of Photojournalism.” The Digital Journalist, Feb. 2006.) -
Sept. 12, 1994 — Netscape releases the beta version of its Navigator Web browser. (See also: “ A Sad Milestone: AOL To Discontinue Netscape Browser Development.” Michael Arrington, TechCrunch, Dec. 28, 2007.) -
Oct. 1994 — The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) is created to develop common protocols for the Internet. -
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According to the Times Mirror Center, nearly one in three U.S. households contains a personal computer, and approximately 23 million adults use a home computer every day. A majority of employed people use a computer at the workplace. (The Times Mirror Center will later change its name to the Pew Research Center.) - Sony introduces its PlayStation video game console.
- “The (Second Phase of the) Revolution Has Begun: Don’t look now, but Prodigy, AOL, and CompuServe are all suddenly obsolete – and Mosaic is well on its way to becoming the world’s standard interface.” Wired, Oct. 1994.
| | THE MEDIA - 1994 Video: “The Tablet Newspaper.” Knight-Ridder, Posted on Google.
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News Example:
Jan. 17, 1994 —
“Southern California Earthquake.”
(This is an early example of a news event reported and discussed by Internet, BBS, and dial-up service users.) - “In San Jose, Knight-Ridder Tests a Newspaper Frontier.”
William Glaberson, The New York Times, Feb. 7, 1994. - “‘Punch’ Sulzberger speaks — from out of the past.” (May 25, 1994 Speech) JimmyCsays, Apr. 21, 2010.
- “Panel Vision: At its information lab in the Rockies, Knight-Ridder is working to turn a hand-held electronic panel into the newspaper of the future.” By Jerome Aumente, AJR, Oct. 1994.
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A few examples of new media sites launched during 1994: (Source: E&P and Alexa) - Salt Lake Tribune,
Utah Online,
Jan. 1994,
Service: BBS - Detroit Free Press,
Jan. 1994,
Service: CompuServe - Raleigh News & Observer, Nando.Net,
Feb. 1994,
Service:
Gopher – Internet / BBS - Palo Alto Weekly, Feb. 1994,
Service: Internet - Atlanta Journal
and Constitution,
Access Atlanta,
March 1994,
Service: Prodigy - CNET,
March 1994,
Service: Internet - BBC
April 13, 1994
Service: Internet - Columbus Dispatch,
May 1994, Service:
Columbus Freenet - The New York Times,
@ Times,
June 1994,
Service: America Online - Halifax Daily News
June 1994 - ESPN,
July 1994 - Tampa Tribune,
Tampa Bay Online,
Aug. 1994,
(1994 IPA Review)
Service: Prodigy - Raleigh News & Observer, Nando Times, (archive copy)
Late summer 1994,
(1995 AJR article)
Service: Web – Internet - Newsday,
Newsday Direct,
Oct. 1994,
Service: Prodigy - Wired Magazine,
Hot Wired,
Oct. 1994,
(1994 IPA Review)
Service: Internet - Los Angeles Times,
TimesLink,
Oct. 26, 1994,
(1994 IPA Review)
Service: Prodigy - London Daily Telegraph,
Electronic Telegraph,
Nov. 1994,
(1994 IPA Review)
(2004 anniversary)
Service: Internet - San Francisco Examiner
/ Chronicle,
The Gate,
Nov. 1994,
Service: Internet - Finanical Times,
Nov. 1994 - San Jose Mercury News, Mercury Center,
Dec. 1994,
Service: Internet - Dallas Morning News,
1994 - The Irish Times,
1994 Statistics - According to The Media in Cyberspace IIsurvey, the following online services are used by reporters in 1994:
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The America Online dial-up service has 1,000,000 subscribers. (Source: AOL) |
