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Visual History Of How Information Has Traveled

THE HISTORY OF INFORMATION TRAVEL PRESENTED BY Msn Around 490 B.C., the original mobile devices were people. The Peloponnesian War probably would have been a lot shorter if Athens, Sparta, Corinth and Samos were getting minute-to-minute updates about who was still "in A Relationship." Then in 776 BC, people got lazy, so they just made birds do it. Despite this moderate increase in speed, the faces of the first Olympic Games (circa 776 BC) couldn't be turned into memes as fast as today's most unimpressed participants. In 1455 A.D., instead of hiring millions of birds all the time, they decided it would be easier to just make books. Johannes Gutenberg helped spawn a new age, enabling the spread of important information. Like stories about vampires that sparkle in sunlight. In the 1830s, because you could only throw a book so far (say 10 feet, 15 at most), people began transporting messages via wire. It would have taken approximately 2.5 days to telegraph an entire copy of a Tale Of Two Cities, considering the 40 words per minute character limit. In 1861, the United Pony Service found a more efficient way to transport books than a) throwing them and b) telegraphing them one at a time. However, it cost something like $10 an ounce to mail things (at first), so people were probably only exchanging some light reading. In 1876, they decided that a month was too long to be arguing about one sporting event, so the telephone was invented. Tivadar Puskás was working for Thomas Edison when he invented the first mass telephone switchboard. If not for them, we wouldn't have any angry celebrity voicemails to listen to. In the early 1900s, instead of hiring millions of telephone operators to call people when something urgent needed to be said, they decided to just broadcast messages over a SuperTelephone called the radio. It only works one way though. Later, they added pictures to their radios and called it "Television." Finally, the 1936 Olympics were broadcast with something faster than birds! In 1951, people loved their TVs so much that they wanted to be friends with them. So they made them smarter and called it a "computer." It would be a while before it could tell a joke, though. It might have had something to do with the fact that the guys writing I Love Lucy were a lot funnier than the guys writing code for these things. n00000 000000 n00000 000000 Ion0000 000000 In 1979, people realized that it's hard to be friends with a computer. So it became a glorified middleman for people-to- people joke-telling. Certain film depictions of A.I. and human relationships probably spooked the general population. ??? !!! In 1990, people invented something that is man + pigeon + horse + telegraph + TV + computer + cell phone. It's called the Internet. This is probably why most political memes exist in the post Bush administration-era. In the early 2000s, people decided that they wanted to take their Horsetelcomphone around with them everywhere, so that's when mobile devices were invented. Now celebrities could leave those angry voicemails from anywhere. And in the mid to late 2000s, we finally found a way to turn ourselves into a TV show that's always on our friend's Horsetelcomphones. It's the future! It was said in the future everyone will be famous for fifteen minutes. They just didn't know that fame would also extend to celebrity cats. Present Day - msn With so many ways to get information, it's hard to know where to look. Luckily, it's easy to stay up to date with the all-new MSN. It's 4x faster than other top sites at delivering the stories everyone will be talking about. It's the best way to stay in the know- on your computer or on your mobile device! See what's new on MSN. (→ BUZZFOOD Applies to MSN for Windows 8. PARTNER

Visual History Of How Information Has Traveled

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Before we condensed entire sentences into memes and emoticons, the speed and path of information were dependent on many things.

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