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200
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.
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500
Papyrus rolls and early parchments made of dried reeds - first portable and light writing surfaces.
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530
The Greeks start the very first library.
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Nov 27, 776
First recorded use of homing pigeons used to send message - the winner of the Olympic Games to the Athenians.
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Nov 15, 1270
The first encyclopedia is written in Syria.
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Nov 15, 1400
Oldest record of writing in China on bones.
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phonetic alphabet
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The very first postal service - for government use in China.
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