In reading this overview of the history of written communication, I found myself hoping we won't be held accountable for all those dates on a test or something. Or at the very least hoping if we do I'll be able to sift through all of them quickly enough to get the correct answer without wasting too much D2L time.
Anyway, this particular reading spread it's focus on many types of written communication, and it jumped around chronologically quite a bit. I'm reading about xerox machines in 1960 one second, then in the following paragraph I'm back in 1600 BC Egypt talking about the advent of snail-mail. In the beginning I found the chapter most interesting when it talked about the evolution of the written word itself, I've always been into hieroglyphics. I also never knew that the Chinese had been using movable type hundreds of years before Gutenberg got credit for inventing it in 1439. A few of the technologies, such as the radio-facsimile and TWX, I had never really heard of. Since the radio-fax got killed by TV and TELEX and TWX were used only by big business in the 30's it shouldn't surprise me I hadn't heard of them...learn somethin everyday I guess. Until next time, Sharxjay signing off. Ciao.
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