Newspapers

　　•The printed newspaper first appeared in 1450 in Europe.

　　•The daily was published for the first time in 1650.

　　•News of Frankfort (《法兰克福新闻》) published in 1615 is regarded as the first "real newspaper".

　　•Wai zhong xin bao (《外中新报》) was the first published Chinese newspaper in 1858. It was established in Hong Kong.

　　TV

　　John Logie Baird, the Scottish inventor, obtained the world's first real television picture in his laboratory in October, 1925, and showed it to the British public on January 26, 1926. He is remembered as the father of mechanical (机械式) television.

　　Websites

　　•The story of the Internet begins in the late 1950s. The Pentagon set up a research team in 1958 to create a computer network to operate during disasters like a nuclear war.

　　•In 1985, the National Science Foundation created a network which provided a free national service to any U．S. research and education institution. All those networks finally joined the Pentagon's network to form the Internet.

　　•In the 1990s, anyone with a computer, a modern, and Internet software could link up to the Internet.