We send and receive messages all over the world with the speed of light, exchange huge amounts of data, but it was not always. Layfhaker and VEON offer to your attention informative story about the evolution of communication.
3.5 billion years ago
Communications appeared on Earth with the first living organisms. Some types of bacteria are exchanged information with the help of specific signaling chemicals. This method of communication to this day helps them to survive.
Life evolved, and with it improved means of communication. Organisms have learned to send information to the smells, sounds, vibrations, electrical signals and illumination, and take it through the eyes, ears, nose, mustache, sonar, like bats, and other organs perception.
200,000 years ago
Around this time, the planet begins to conquer the Homo Sapiens. From other kinds of people it is distinguished by three very important features:
- Brain Homo Sapiens more he developed consciousness and intelligence.
- Homo Sapiens vocal apparatus is adapted to articulate speech.
- Brushes Homo Sapiens are adapted for grasping.
Simply put, evolution has given Homo sapiens all to flourish on Earth. He is able to think, to communicate information to others through speech and embody our plans into reality with his hands.
Approximately 60,000 years ago, Homo Sapiens began to settle in Asia, 40 000 years ago, people came to Europe and 15,000 years ago, Homo sapiens reached Australia and America.
At that time people were primitive languages, and not only voice. Gestures, they communicate information and coordinate action in the group hunting time to sneak up on the beast and cautious not to give himself.
If the settlement was in danger, the man was batting on a dry tree trunk, to summon assistance in the vicinity of hunters and gatherers.
Intelligence helped the emergence of culture and art. The people tried to keep their thoughts and share experiences with others. So there was a transfer of graphical information - petroglyphs.
Having mastered fire, man has put it at the service itself. Bonfires were not only for heating, cooking and repel predators, but also as a way to communicate information. Smoke can be seen from afar in the afternoon, and the fire - at night. Sequential broadcast signal from post to post with the help of bonfires and torches will be used by people thousands of years.
10,000 years BC
It began the so-called agricultural revolution, which determined the subsequent development of the whole of humanity. Instead of looking for food, people learned how to grow it. Leave the field without supervision and care is impossible, but because nomadic lifestyle has changed settled. Thus it appeared the first permanent settlements, market relations, and with it the need to maintain communication between villages.
Communication of the time - it's foot messengers. A man with good health, rapid and robust, memorizing the message and went to a destination on its own feet. There he voiced a message, memorize answer and went back.
The emergence of pictographs and writing is not too affected the process, although significantly increased the accuracy of the information transmitted by excluding the factor of human memory.
5000 BC
Even in ancient times people have noticed an amazing ability to find pigeons nest and return to it at a distance, even more than 1 000 kilometers. Science suggests that these birds are guided by the magnetic field of the Earth.
In war pigeon has a serious drawback: the bird flies only to their nest. Accordingly, in order to transmit information, the pigeon must first deliver to the point where the message will be sent. However, the speed dove filter, reaching 100 kilometers per hour, compensates for any disadvantages of this method of communication. If you deliver the information you need to really quickly, to cope with the task only airmail.
3000 BC
A trained person can run 3 kilometers without stopping at an average speed of 20 kilometers per hour, and a horse - at a speed of 60 kilometers per hour.
With domestication horse greatly improved the quality of one of the major characteristics of the ground connection - the information transmission rate.
A horse can not stop the run at a maximum speed of not more than 2-3 kilometers. The problem was solved the creation of transit stations networks. A messenger with the message got to the station, changed the tired horses for fresh or transmit a message the next messenger.
modern history
They say that progress is constantly accelerating, and it is difficult to argue with this statement. People took almost 200,000 years to learn how to transmit information faster than allow their feet, and a thousand times less time to reach the speed of light.
In 1800 the Italian scientist Alessandro Volta created the first chemical current source, initiating telecommunication and by launching the most powerful communication revolution in the history of mankind. Now is the time between the great discoveries in the field of communication is not measured in millennia, and in years.
For the first hundred years of the electric age were invented telegraph, telephone and radio, laid the foundations of television. We have mastered the wired and wireless telecommunications.
During the second hundred years has been invented everything that we use today: TV, computer, internet, browser, social network, instant messenger, mobile phone, and of course, a smartphone.
We live in a new society, and the problems in it, too new:
- In stores tens of messenger applications. How to choose a good one?
- Information on the web too. How to select from this chaos interesting and useful?
- Available billions of goods and services. How to find among them the dates and at the best price?
- Content costs money. How to get it legally, but free?
- bandwidth consumption increases. How to reduce the cost of access to the Internet?
Solution could be VEON - one application in which there is nothing superfluous, but there are all the most necessary functions:
- Convenient messenger with group chats, voice recording and GIFCA.
- Collections of news, articles, videos, and other content based on the user's interests.
- Tailored specifically for you deals and discounts on VEON partners.
- Free legal movies in HD-quality.
- Free Traffic and account management directly from the app for subscribers of "Beeline".
Used data from open sources.