Poynter Online - New Media Timeline

Our timeline looks at the history of new media and online journalism from 1969 to 2008.

We are presenting it in two parts, with parallel sections on "Technology/Services/Social" and "The Media."

David Shedden, Library Director of the Poynter Institute's Eugene Patterson Library, began compiling this timeline and bibliography in 1995.

We hope the timeline serves as a useful reference tool for journalists, students, and researchers.

We also hope it helps preserve the history of new media and online journalism, a history that isn't very new after all.

Begin the timeline: 1969