It all started with grunts and groans and smiles and frowns I'm sure. Then with pictures scratched and painted on cave walls. (This reminds me of what you might find on a men's public restroom wall today. A very crude type of communication.)
It was centuries before language and the printed word became sophisticated and widespread. More centuries past before we developed a way to mechanically print words on paper. That was a giant leap forward.
Hundreds more years past before any form of photography was developed c. 1827. This was about the time that newspapers became widespread. News still traveled slowly. The telegraph was the really quick way to communicate over long distances if you had it available.
The telephone was invented in 1876 but was not in widespread use for fifty years. Motion pictures came along in the twentieth century c. 1927. News was available to all at the movie theaters ten or twelve years later.
Okay, you get the picture. What has happened to communications in the last twenty years is astounding. I'm sure my younger grandchildren take it for granted that you can carry one little devise in your pocket that gives you news, music, pictures, movies, and a telephone ...and that it connects you to every part of the globe. I never will.
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