The very first instance of a newspaper was commissioned by Julius Caesar in 59BC, and it was a daily list of announcements that was carved into metal or stone and displayed publically.

In 1929, Janet Gaynor became the first woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress and actually won it for her roles in three movies simultaneously: Seventh Heaven, Sunrise, and Street Angel. Emil Jennings was the first man to win the Academy Award for Best Actor for both The Way of the Flesh and The Last Command The Academy later changed their rules to allow a person to win a single award for only one movie at a time.

The word ‘broadcasting’, referring to radio transmissions, was originally an agricultural term for the wide scattering of seeds.

The inventor of the television would not let his own children watch TV. He once said to his son “There’s nothing on it worthwhile, and we’re not going to watch it in this household, and I don’t want it in your intellectual diet.”

 – Philo T Farnsworth.