Quizzes

Five questions from the atlas's second depth wave: media effects theory, the Betamax-VHS format war, MTV's 1981 launch, a controversial 1915 landmark film, and the Fairness Doctrine repeal.

Five questions from the founding wave's own research: the cafe where cinema was born, the attic where television first flickered, and the broadcast that taught the world to doubt its own ears.

Five questions from the depth wave that seeded video games, comics, magazines, podcasting, social media and streaming video with their own figures, works, technologies, organizations, milestones and concepts.

From the hand-built multiplane camera to the algorithms that keep a stream from stalling: five questions on the devices, companies and ideas that carried media from the studio floor to the streaming era.