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In 1900, communicating was simple. You could talk to somebody. You could write a letter. You could read ink, printed on paper. -
1910: The U.S. was the world leader of telephone communication in the early 20th century. Phones in that era were connected by manual exchanges – or switchboards. By 1910, 67.4% of all telephones in the world were in the United States. -
The radio, telephone, and television spawned what would be known as the era of mass communications. However, many households still could not afford any of their own. The most common form of communications was still the humble newspaper. -
In 1934, the first handset telephone was used by independent phone companies. Its official name was the round base rotary dial monophone. -
The first public telephone came out in the 1940s — improving and making communication more efficient. The television also picked up steam as families across the US began buying them to watch programs and follow the news from broadcasting companies like NBC and CBS. -
However, no media benefited more from the 1950s than television. Largely a curiosity before World War II, the consumer goods boom that came with the 1950s had meant that millions of televisions were being sold. -
The 1960s saw fundamental advances in four important areas of communications technology: data transmission through the analog voice channels of the telephone network, computer networking, satellite communications, and lasers and optical fibers. -
By the 1970s, tone and voice pagers were invented. After the tone, the pager relayed an audio message. This was a big improvement because the recipient was immediately given more information such as “Code Blue in CIU. -
These car phones were large and bulky, with the handset connected to the receiver via a cord — eliminating the need to be stationary when making calls. Another noteworthy invention in the personal communication space was the pager which allowed for one-way messages to be sent. -
The IBM Simon Personal Communicator, introduced in 1992 and released in 1994, was the first smartphone. -
The years 2000-2003 gave us camera phones, USB flash drives, Bluetooth, iPods, the video gaming revolution, LinkedIn, and more. We will talk about a few of these below. These days, camera phones are just part of our everyday apparel, but they were brand new in the year 2000. -
The 2010's brought with it a lot of innovation, but perhaps the most influential change technology brought us was the mass expansion of social media. Social media changed the way we interacted with one another, what was important to many Americans and it reinforced the ideas of projecting perfection. -
We now have a lot of forms of communication now like calling,texting, face time and even emailing and we believe that communication will just continue to get better.
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