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Common daily means of
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Common daily means of communication vs. 100 years ago
We are so used to the comforts and speed offered by our means of communication this day and age that its quite hard to imagine what life must have been like 100 years ago without them, so why don’t we take a glimpse at a few simple aspects…
There were no mobile phones
In 1917, Finnish inventor Eric Tigerstedt filed a patent for a "pocket-size folding telephone with a very thin carbon microphone" but it wasn’t until 1973 that the first handheld cellular mobile phone was demonstrated by John F. Mitchell and Martin Cooper of Motorola (Wikipedia, 2022).
Before mobile phones, personal landlines were the most common as well as public telephone boxes, although if we go back 100 years, the most widespread form of communication was the telegraph.
There was no social media There was no internet
The first ever social media platform, “Six Degrees”, was launched in 1997 and was then followed by “Myspace” in the early 2000s at the same time as LinkedIn was created for business professionals. Facebook was then released in 2004 & Twitter in 2006 (Tom & Co. , s.f.).
How did people manage to socialize without social media??
The most common form was writing letters and sending them by mail, which was transported primarily by rail, although, believe it or not, in 1910 correspondence was actually delivered by scooter in some places! Airmail was first used in 1918. All types of gatherings were extremely commonplace. Although it is interesting that Nickola Tesla thought about the idea of a “World Wireless System” in the early 1900s, it is impossible to credit a sole person with the invention of the internet because it is the result of the work of many pioneering scientists, programmers, and engineers, (Andrews, 2019).
And although it may seem impossible, we did manage to communicate and stay in touch without the internet, can you believe that for centuries people used messenger pigeons? But 100 years ago, we relied on YES, the telegraph!
What other comforts of modern life can you think about that have only been around for a few years?
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Sources
Andrews, E. (19 de October de 2019). History. Obtenido de Who Invented the Internet?: https://www.history.com/news/who-invented-the-internet Britanica, T. E. (4 de March de 2021). Britannica. Obtenido de https://www.britannica.com/topic/creditcard Cahn, L. (17 de June de 2022). Readers Digest. Obtenido de What mail delivery looked like 100 years ago: https://www.rd.com/list/what-mail-delivery-looked-like-100-years-ago/ The connecting word. (s.f.). Communication before the internet, part 1. Obtenido de https://www.signewords.com/connectingword/communication-before-the-internet-%e2%94%82-part1/ Tom & Co. . (s.f.). The History of Social Media Platforms. Obtenido de https://tomco.co/social-mediamarketing/the-history-of-social-media-platforms/ Wikipedia. (25 de June de 2022). Mobile phone. Obtenido de https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mobile_phone#:~:text=The%20first%20handheld%20cellular%20mobile,T elegraph%20and%20Telephone%20in%201979.
