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
Papyrus rolls and early parchments made of dried reeds - first portable and light writing surfaces.
530
The Greeks start the very first library.
Nov 27, 776
First recorded use of homing pigeons used to send message - the winner of the Olympic Games to the Athenians.
Nov 15, 1270
The first encyclopedia is written in Syria.
Nov 15, 1400
Oldest record of writing in China on bones.
phonetic alphabet
The very first postal service - for government use in China.
