COMMUNICATION

through THE AGE

 Before the day of
tweeting and texting,
people
communicated with
one another a little
differently.
Here is the look at the evolution of
communication throughout the
ages
After the BIGBANG
5-7 M B.C.
Spoken Word Stories
Oral communication was
once the only means for
passing one’s ancestry to
next generation or
spooking them with a
frightening ghost story.
33,000 B.C.
Neanderthal Cave Painting
Our hunched
predecessors had an eye
better than Picasso,
creating cave
masterpieces through
France. Inspired by all the
smelly cheese?
550 B.C.
Postal Service
Canadian electronics
scientist Doctor Murice
Levy invented an
automatic postal sorter in
1957 that could handle
200.000 letters an hour.
150 B.C.
Smoke Signals
Chinese Soldiers were
able to transmit
messages as far as 750
km in just a few hours
with smoke signals along
the great wall.
1150 A.D.
Carrier Pegions
Although commonly
refered to as “flying rats”
these bobble headed birds
were once treasured as
yesteryear’s dutiful
postmen.
 The brilliant
invention paved
1140 A.D. the road for the
Guttenberg renaissance ,
reformation and
Printing Scientific
Press Revolutions,
and helped the
spread of
learning to the
masses.
1684
Semaphore (Maritime Flags)
English Scientist Robert Hooke was credited
with investing semaphore, apparently because
the patent for “Funny hand waving with flags”
was taken
 1836

We like Morse code so much, we figured we’d just use it.

The first radio broadcast included famous
opera singers from the Met; today, we’re
graced with likes of Justin Bieber.
 1925 TV
The boggle said it best, ‘video
killed the radio star’.
Americans spend over 13 hours
a week watching TV.
Starting as a US military project, ARPANET
serves as the foundation for the modern
Internet as we know it.
 1990 Search Engine

Who would’ve thought the Page Rank

algorithm would lead to the golden era
of pornography? Thanks Google
Tweet, tweet, tweet… those small bursts of
140 characters happen 200 million times a
day