Communication In The 1700s

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In the past three hundred years communication has changed so much that sometimes it is hard to imagine. We have gone from hand written, hand delivered letters in the 1700’s to text messaging and face time. Humans naturally strive to make things better, to find easier ways of doing things. Communication has gone from only spoken messages to, written, typed, and then electronic.
In the 1700’s most communication was done through letters that were hand delivered and could take up to two weeks to go about a hundred miles (World of Influence, 2001). There was never a garonte that your letter would make it to its final destination. It was not unheard of for people to make mulitipal copies of their letter in hopes that at least one copy would make …show more content…

Louis Braille created a form of written language made of small raised bumps on paper so that people who could not see or possibly hear could learn and read (Gibson, …show more content…

It worked by sending a series of electrical signals, also known as the Morse code. It became very popular and widely spread means of communication (Gibson, n.d.). After the telegraph, Alexander Grandbell (Gibson, n.d) invented the telephone. In 1939 the very first computer was created by Professor John Vincent Atanasoff and Cliff Berry. It was not the type of computer we are used to though, that type of computer didn’t make an appearance until 1982(Timeline of computer history, 2001). After the first computer was created communication took off like a rocket. In 1997 social media started with the site Six Degrees, which let users create a profile and become friends (Hendricks, 2013). After social media became popular the world of communication opened up into ways that are hard to imagine sometimes. Now a person can talk to someone on the other side of the world and it sounds/looks as if they are right beside them. In the last 300 years there has been so much change to communication, it is hard to believe there will be just as much, in not more change in the next 300 years. People will not even remember what it was like to write letters and mail

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