Read about the history of the internet, from its 1950s origins to the World Wide Web’s explosion in popularity in the late 1990s, the ‘dotcom bubble’, and beyond.
From Nim to the Nintendo 3DS, take a whistle-stop tour through 60 years of videogames.
Television advertising in Britain began on 22 September 1955. ‘Coincidentally’, the BBC chose the same evening to kill off Grace Archer in its long-running radio soap The Archers, thus stealing the next day’s newspaper headlines.
The first public demonstration of television in the UK took place in 1926. Trace the development of TV from then right up to the present day with our timeline.
From albumen negatives in the 1840s to the gelatin dry plate, which was in use until the 1970s, learn about the history of glass photographic negatives.
Learn about the development of colour photography—from the very first experiments with hand-colouring to the mass-production of commercially viable colour film.