In 1936, the year of the Berlin Olympic Games, spectators crowded
into specially built viewing rooms called Fernsehstuben (literally, television rooms) to catch a glimpse of one of the first-ever television
broadcasts. In black and white, 180 lines/frame, and 25 frames/second,
it would hardly compare to television by today’s standards; however,
it became the progenitor of modern-day broadcasting, one of the
most powerful tools of the Information Age.