This week in class we took a look at a timeline of The History of Communication. For me personally, when I think of the history of communication I think back to the 1700's, 1800's or early 1900's. I think of Morse Code and the typewriter as being the beginning of communications, along with the alphabet which was of course hundreds of years before that. After reading through the timeline though, I realized that I am completely out of line with those thoughts. The history of communication all began thousands of years Before Christ (BC). I have to say I knew about a lot of the things the timeline mention happened in the years Before Christ; I just never thought of them as forms of technology. After reading it, it seems so obvious and I don't see how I never made the connection seeing the it is all right there in front of me. Communication really did start about 3500 BC when the Phoenicians developing an alphabet and progressed soon after in 1775 BC when the Greeks started writing from left to right. (The History of Communication, 2011) It is crazy to fathom how something that began thousands of years ago is still progressing to this day. Forms of communication are so ever changing and evolving everyday; and they have been since many years Before Christ.
The History of Communication. 2011. About Inventers. Available at: http://inventors.about.com/library/inventors/bl_history_of_communication.htm
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