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Today, people send emails, text messages, and status updates instantaneously. But not so long ago, messages were handwritten and travelled no faster than people could carry them. With the invention of the telegraph and then the telephone, instant communication was born. Radio and television created an industry for mass entertainment that continues to grow, and the computer age changed how data is crunched. With the invention of the internet in the 1980s, the world of communication has truly shrunk.
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Modern emails, pagers, faxes, and cell phones! It's all about communication with Timeblazers Sam and Jen, who travel back to test out different communication methods. The message-in-a-bottle tactic proves it could be a long wait before the tide comes in to carry the bottle to sea. It wasn't that long ago that to "log on" meant to throw a log on the fire to send smoke signals. There was the Pony Express and horse-drawn stagecoaches in the 1800s. Then came carrier pigeons, the telegraph, telephones, the Post Office, and overnight delivery.
