And I beg the question: how does this affect our generation? It went from face-to-face or phone calls to primarily instant messaging. This is a paradigm shift in communication. How about how you communicate with your friends? Would you say you talk on the phone more often, or send texts or snaps more often? Maybe you and all of your friends just chat in one big group message? How did your relationship begin? Did you “talk” for awhile, over text, or did you Snapchat, possibly? Were your first interactions primarily virtual, or did he call you, ask you on a date, and then leave it at that until he picked you up that Friday night to take you to a movie? Think about how you communicate with your significant other on a daily basis. When smartphones were developed in 2007, a huge shift occurred, namely for The Millennial generation. Essentially, he showed her enough to make them keep in touch with each other via telephone for over a year, until they were engaged and my mom moved across the pond so they could live together as newlyweds. My parents met in the late 90’s, on a plane to London, and hit it off when my dad, who lived in London at the time, showed my mom around the city. Otherwise he would just knock on his friends’ doors or holler for them outside their house. When my father was younger, he said the only way to contact his friends was to either call their house telephone from his own house, or possibly the payphone down the street. My grandfather was deployed shortly after, and they kept in touch, writing love letters to each other for over a year before they were engaged and got married. In the 1940s, my grandparents met in a bar and danced the night away together. 2007 marks Apple’s release of its iPhone 1, arguably changing communication as we knew it, forever. In another 20 years, around 1973, after more variations of the house phone and th e advancement of a wireless house phone, the first mobile phone was born– a big, blocky device with a huge antennae and a chin piece, of course, and certainly no chance of fitting it in your pocket.īy the 1990s, this design was modified significantly, taking the blockiness of the first cell phone and narrowing it down to more compact device and by the early 2000s, the classic flip phone was born (do you remember your first flip phone?). Now fast forward again about a hundred years, and new variations of the telephone were formed, where ear and mouth pieces were combined into one unified piece, and the numbers could be dialed using the round dial that one must spin with his or her fingers to select each number- a very time consuming process!! Of course, you couldn’t go very far, as it was attached to the wall (frightening!), and it was pretty rare for a family to have one, let alone any more than that (can you imagine?).

This is when the first telephone was born, a large, bulky device that had two parts and required two hands- one piece which you would hold to your ear, and the other to your mouth. Fast forward a couple thousand years, and mankind evolve d to the telephone, specifically in the 1850s.

Communication has always been a vital part of history- starting in the prehistoric times, cave images and papyrus was used to give messages and portray different meanings.

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