How the Internet Has Revolutionized Telecommunications And Commerce
In the late decades of the 19th and early decades of the 20th century, communication between two locations in the world was revolutionized. For centuries previous, detailed communication relied upon written or spoken messages that, for the most part, required people to come together and exchange information. The inventions of the telegraph, the telephone, and finally radio communication changed the way the military operated, the way business was done, and the way people connected. And though some of these technologies were phased out or used with less frequency, we still relied on the base technology through most of the previous century, albeit with some notable innovations along the way.
That all started to change until the early 1980s when the first computer network clusters allowed for the very first email communications and soon the internet as we know it today. Even with the significant technological advancements of past communication technology, they all seem to pale in comparison to the rise of the internet, which has changed the way we do nearly everything.
The implications for interpersonal communications have been huge, with people on opposite sides of the world now able to send messages to one another that will be received …
