Legacy News Media
These three news and television networks extend back to the age of Radio.
What are ABC, CBS, NBC?
This is the reason why Meta paid a 17 billion dollar settlement in August of 2026.
What is harming children? (addictive programming, weak predator safeguards, undermining the mental health of youth).
This film released in 2008 was the first of Marvel Cinematic Universe films.
What is Iron Man?
This DVD Rental company became the first TV internet streaming service in 2007.
Who is Netflix?
This modern media connection was initially started as ARPANET in 1966.
What is the Internet?
This cable network was the first to do news 24 hours a day, 7 days a week.
What is CNN?
This social media site was launched worldwide to anyone 13 or older with an email address in 2006.
What is Facebook?
This independent film studio is known for producing such critically acclaimed films as Backrooms, Marty Supreme, Get Out, Ladybird, Moonlight, and Everything, Everywhere, All At Once.
What is A24?
From the mid-1960s to through the early 1990s, this was the weekly event that attracted children to all of the major networks each Saturday morning.
What are Saturday Morning Cartoons?
This 15th Century invention by Gutenberg lead to the rise of newspapers and books in Europe, but had already been invented by the Chinese around 600 A.D.
What is the printing press?
This TV news network is largely "dependent upon viewer donations from people like you."
What is PBS?
This major social media platform is owned by Google and also serves as a major streaming platform.
What is YouTube?
This famed filmmaker co-wrote and directed The Godfather and The Godfather Part II.
Who is Francis Ford Coppola?
This surreal 1990s television series filmmed in Washington state was created by Mark Frost and David Lynch, and it is widely credited for changing the look and content of prime time TV paving the way for The X-Files, Lost, and Stranger Things.
What is Twin Peaks?
This 19th Century invention allowed for the first direct communication between the East Coast and Port Townsend, and between Europe and the United States.
What is the telegraph.
This American war is considered to be the first with news coverage broadcast to people's living rooms.
What is The Vietnam War?
This social media platform was the most popular prior to the launch of Facebook.
What is MySpace?
This 1977 SciFi film is considered the movie that created The Age Of Blockbusters.
What is Star Wars?
This subscription based TV service is largely credited with launching "The Golden Age Of Television" through their creation of sophisticated series like The Sopranos, The Wire, and Game Of Thrones.
What is HBO?
This was the year was the first "talkie" (or film with sound) was released?
What is 1927?
This graduate of Washington State University is widely considered the greatest broadcast journalist of all time.
What is Edward R. Murrow?
This infamous Silicon Valley "tech bro" launched Palantir the same year that he became the largest and first major outside investor in Facebook in 2004?
Who is Peter Thiel?
This French magician turned filmmaker was the first to create a color film by hand painting each frame in his 1902 SciFi classic A Trip To The Moon.
Who was Georges Méliés?
This TV producer is widely regarded as the most influential of all time as he actively produced shows like All In The Family and The Jeffersons, and provided support for South Park in a career that spanned from 1950 to 2025.
Who is Norman Lear.
This is what British Trip-Hop group Massive Attack referenced when they rapped the line "It's started by Marconi, resumed by Sony."
What is radio?