The History of TV

How the internet affected TV shows

Before the internet TV shows were watched on the television and you had to wait to watch the shows and couldn’t watch catch ups unless they were on TV. Most of the shows I watch, I watch them on the internet and I catch up on episodes I have missed.

The first television was revealed to the public in 1949. Not many people owned them when they were first revealed because they were pretty expensive. There were only 2 television channels available when it first came out and they were NBC and CBS. Televisions became more and more popular because you had entertainment without going to the cinemas. As televisions got more popular they became more affordable. People would hear about televisions through the radio and newspaper or from gossip. A lot of people loved the idea of having entertainment in their own home. By the 1960s most families had a TV in their living rooms. Televisions became so popular because most people or families like the entertainment in their own home. In the 1970s restaurants would close on a Monday night because of ‘Monday night football’.  There were no DVDs or DVD players so people couldn’t watch the limited show that were offered at their own convenience.

The internet was first released in 1989. It wasn’t until many years later that the internet became widely know or used. In the early 1990s the internet was totally different to now. There were only text web browsers but they eventually introduced graphic ones which included images etc. There were more and more sites being uploaded and by the 2000 the internet truly went ‘mainstream’.