> It wasn’t until the daguerreotype for images, the phonoautograph for audio, and the Nipkow disk for video, that more complex and information-heavy forms of co

> It wasn’t until the daguerreotype for images, the phonoautograph for audio, and the Nipkow disk for video, that more complex and information-heavy forms of content began to emerge and become mainstream. The daugerreotype may have been the beginning of photography, but it was hardly the beginning of images as human-generated content. See: White House portraits, the Sistine Chapel, cave paintings.