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Pictures/drawings made in caves to display a story and/or message to whoever saw them.
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Clay tablets used to write on and document. Mesopotamians are credited to be the first ones to do this.
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First reported in 104 A.D but thought to have been used 200 years earlier in China. Mainly for it's use to write on, paper is a traditional use for communication -- from personal letters to mass messages.
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The first "printing press" invented by Bi Sheng during the Northern Song Dynasty.
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Johannes Gutenerg from Germany took the chinese idea and used it with the more successful english alphabet. The first use was with the King James Bible.
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Brazilian priest Roberto Landell de Moura was first credited to transmit the human voice wirelessly, and the development grew rapidly from there.
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Film was first created in the 1880s; however, scenes began to be connected to tell a story in the 20s. Starting with silent movies then into sound.
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Television stations in certain locations, that grew over time, supported the televisions.
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Similar machines have been created decades before, but due to a high demand in business communications, the pressure for a typewriter's popularity came into existence around the Civil War era.
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Computers connecting to share servers -- mainly to share university research but eventually grew to more until the point of social media.