Communication and Telecommunication in the World

By Anthony Hargens


If you rely on cell phones to do business, then it may shock you when you think about how long cell phones have been around, and how people had to use much less efficient means for business before that, like using the postal service. Back then, if you wanted to talk to someone that was not in your immediate vicinity, it took some real effort.

At around the same time the internet was invented, mobile phones came into use, and a few years later they started becoming popular for people to own. If you didn't want to own a mobile phone at that time for any reason, then you still weren't out of luck because they were making landlines even better so that people could actually use them without too much effort. Whether you are on the go, or comfortable in your couch at home, you can use a cell phone nowadays to call from anywhere and do the business that you need to do whenever you need to do it. For many of us, it is still really hard to believe that mobile phones have not been with us forever.

In the early years of the human race, it did not take very long before they needed some way to communicate over long distances. Some of the most common methods that you find throughout cultures to communicate over distance include loud noises and light signals. The modern alarm system started out as a form of an alarm many centuries ago, when people would use loud noises to warn large populations of incoming threats. That time was a little less fast paced than it is now, so these methods suited the people of that time better than they would suit us today.

After automobiles came about, people were able to drive themselves places much more efficiently and quickly than they were when they used horseback. Finally, there was a breakthrough in the communications industry in the 19th century that gave people the ability to communicate very quickly over long distances. When the telegraph was invented, people were able to send an unheard of amount of information very quickly without having to go anywhere themselves. Telegraphs and Morse code gave people the ability to communicate with each other with technology that seemed unreal at the time.

Telecommunication gained a large boost with the invention of the telephone, and people were now able to talk with their own voice over long distances, which was something never heard of before. At the time, the telephone had a relatively low error rate, which made it very popular for people that needed to send important information over long distances. Eventually, this technology rose to the cell phone and internet services that we use today, and we have been spoiled with the ability to communicate with others so easily.




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