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Cave Paintings A long time ago back in the times B.C. There wasn't any really any means of documented communication other than cave paintings on cave walls and ceilings. Usually these paintings were made in prehistoric times. Most cave paintings date from 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. These cave drawings were called pictographs and some were just drawn pictures or symbols. The cavemen used pictures for record keeping. -
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Scrolls of ancient times were dated way back 130 BCE. Scrolls were used to and carried from place to place back in Roman/Greek times to get important messages to people of important stature or royalty. Messengers would travel endless miles to deliver sometimes a letter of two sentences. Thy used clay tablets or papyrus paper that was a super thick consistency. -
Smoke Signals Native Americans used smoke signals for location signals or even warning signals. Lewis and Clark were leaders in expeditions in finding new land as they traveled about they got to learn Native American ways and adopted the use of smoke signals as means of communications in their travels as they discovered new lands. -
Communication advanced even more in the year 1832 Samuel Morse created the telegraph that was used to send coded messages by transmitting electrical signals over the wire. With this came what was called the Morse Code system. By 1866 the telegraph was utilized from the United states all the way to Europe. Messages sent vastly over the telegram and news got to places all over the world a lot quicker than it did with regular post mail or newspapers. -
Giddy up! In the year 1860 the The Great Pony Express paved way and this was how snail mail or handwritten letters were delivered to someone's physical address which all started out with wagons and horseback riders back in the day. The Pony Express was what was called the thread that tied the East to the West for Communications during this time, messages were speedily and promptly delivered. -
With great thanks to Alexander Graham Bell, the first telephone was used in 1876 in a two way long distance call from Cambridge to Boston Massachusetts. After the telephone was invented and up and running in places all over the world, it opened new ways of communication such as radio broadcasting where news, weather and music could all be heard and enjoyed by all that owned a radio. The telephone opened many doors for communication from near and far. People were then only a "phone call away" -
In the year 1927 the first television broadcast Philo Taylor Farnsworth got to debut images to be seen around the globe and then in 1928 the first tv drama show called "The Queens Messenger" made its grand appearance and the rest is history. News, music, drama shows , educational tv and on and on could be heard and viewed by all who owned a tv set. This paved the way in communication around the world , turn on the tele to hear the news. The T.V. was one of the most innovative inventions to date. -
Next up in the advancement of communications were computers! Computers started out as huge pieces of machinery but advanced over time and the first desk top was made available. The first official e-mail was sent in 1971. Edward Roberts and two other programmers worked together to make a more compact version of the computer that could be used for at home personal use or for businesses. Large companies like IBM and Apple competed to make proto-types to sell to the general public. -
In the year 1983 "The World Wide Web" was created and the internet took off like wild fire. We then had open connections to news , images, audio and video at the tips of our fingers and communication soared with email, messengers, chat rooms. People from all over the globe could suddenly communicate with others at the snap of a finger. Sometimes you even had to sit and listen to sounds as the internet dialed in to a server line and that sound is forever embedded in peoples memories. -
After the internet took off, then cell phones came along in 1983 and at first they were big and bulky and were compared to carrying around bricks, but now you can hold them in your hand and have access to all forms of communication in a screen in your hand , watch movies, text friends , snapchat, facebook, tik tok you name it, you can do it all from the palm of your hand. Being connected to friends, and family is now a breeze. Communication has come such a long way and will only get better.
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