Communication

  • 200

    Communication

    Human messengers on foot or horseback common in Egypt and China with messenger relay stations built.
    Sometimes fire messages used from relay station to station instead of humans.
  • 500

    Communication

    Papyrus rolls and early parchments made of dried reeds - first portable and light writing surfaces.
  • 530

    Communication

    The Greeks start the very first library
  • Oct 16, 776

    Communication

    First recorded use of homing pigeons used to send message - the winner of the Olympic Games to the Athenians.
  • Jan 1, 1270

    Communication

    The first encyclopedia is written in Syria.
  • Oct 16, 1400

    Communication

    Communication
    Oldest record of writing in China on bones.
  • Oct 16, 1400

    Communication

    Romans establish postal services.
  • Communication

    Communication
    Greeks use a phonetic alphabet written from left to right.
  • Communication

  • Communication

    The very first postal service - for government use in China