How Communication Has Changed Over Time

There has been a lot of changes in the way people live today from even just ten years ago to now.If there is one thing that has changed significantly is the way people communicate with one another.

In the 1800s, the only way to communicate was to send a letter or talk to each other in person.It was like that until around the end of the 1800s into the early 1900s when Alexander Graham Bell made the first telephone call on March 10, 1876.After that, the landline evolved over the years until it was made the way it was needed to be.Telephones were a huge milestone for the human race as a whole because they were used for a lot of things. For example, it allowed like a faster way for people to communicate.

One important thing they were used for was law enforcement for things such as calling in for case files, information on suspect or calling for backup if needed.Eventually, the landline was starting to not be enough for a lot people, so in the 1970s, the first mobile phone was invented and was yet another great milestone for the human race.

According to knowyourmobile.com, the first cell phone was made by Martin Cooper, a senior engineer at Motorola, and made the first mobile phone call on April 3, 1973. As time went on the mobile phone had changed and advanced technologically so much it was nothing short of great.In the late 1980s Motorola introduced the flip phone.Then in 1993, developers in Europe developed the idea of text messaging.

The more time moved on the more cellular phones evolved because in 2002, the first ever smart phone was created that could send and receive emails and messages.The negative part about it was that it didn’t have a speaker or microphone, so in order to use it you needed a headset of some sorts.Within the same year of 2002 another first was created as the first camera phone.

With the camera phone you could take a picture then later could download the picture to a computer.Then a couple of years later in 2007 the first of the infamous Apple IPhone was released and was able to do pretty much anything that you were able to do on the computer.Plus it was the first cell phone with a touch screen, which is kind of odd to think about because eight years later almost everybody has a cell phone with a touch screen.Now with all of the things people can do with cell phones, phone calls, text messages, and emails.

A big way to communicate with people nowadays is to use social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, etc.It’s crazy to look back and think how much has changed when it comes to things like ways of communication.