Timeline1

History of Social Media (Prior to 1900)

  • Postal Service
    550 BCE

    Postal Service

    Earliest form of postal service
  • Telegraph

    Telegraph

    allowed messages to be delivered over a long distance faster than a horse and rider
  • Pneumatic Post

    Pneumatic Post

    way to deliver letters quickly between people. This is underground pressurized tubes that carry a capsule from one place to another
  • Telephone

    Telephone

    allowed us to communicate instantaneously
  • Radio

    Radio

    Allowed us to hear news/stories right away