Communication tools have existed since the beginning of human existence. Even in primitive times BC, people have used communication tools with certain methods to communicate with each other.
The simplicity of language and thought affects how the means of communication are. At that time, people used courier services to communicate long distances.
Couriers are one of the most reliable means of communication and can be implemented with the help of animals (pigeons) or handled by humans directly. Even until the 21st century, courier services for some modern humans are still needed.
This modern courier can be in a more sophisticated form, such as a negotiator, an eye witness to a meeting, an intelligence spy, a monk, with functions and goals that are still exactly the same as traditional couriers from prehistoric times, namely conveying messages and getting messages for the sake of individual/group interests.
In more modern times, communication tools are made in several different formats and use different styles of communication as well. People no longer rely too much on couriers who have to be fed organically and die. People then think of couriers who never die of age unless they are turned off.
To get messages from the far end, people think of channels. Human knowledge about the existence of channels has made communication tools have a more efficient form. About how, can convey the message as soon as possible. In a time that can be shortened and in a message that can be made dense.
This existence can be made possible with the help of more technical means of communication, in line with some important discoveries in human life. Among them are communication tools such as electrical energy, sound energy, and several other creative communication tools that are more traditional.
Communication Tools
Which means, for a certain purpose, a means of communication is anything that can be used to convey messages from one person to another massively. There are many devices or communication tools such as during human history, traditional and modern devices.
Traditionally, communication devices such as drums, lighthouse fires, and smoke signals have been used to warn and relay messages over great distances. It has served culture for at least thousands of years.
All this changed in the Middle Ages, when Gutenberg invented the printing press. Then the newspapers were then activated for mass production and the new form of replacement newspapers also became effective communication tools in terms of message storage capacity.
When electricity began to be widely used in many practical ways, it was also thought how messages were conveyed through electrical channels. Towards the beginning of the 20th century, big new technologies began to emerge.
One of the greatest innovations of the 19th century was that it replaced signals, flags, smoke, and lighthouses from a distance when newsprint needed time to deliver breaking news.
The invention was the telegraph. Followed later, when Alexander Graham Bell perfected telephone technology to replace Morse code with the human voice.
In the early 1900s, researchers began to find ways to use radio waves as part of the communication tools that opened the industrial age, as the understanding of physics advanced.
There is nothing on this planet apart from radio waves that take advantage of the earth's magnetic field in the atmosphere.
They eventually learned how to broadcast using radio waves, so that audio could be sent directly to people's homes via the receiver facility which was named the same, "radio".
So, it's not just sound. In 1950, television was created and able to send pictures and radio at the same time. Finally, in addition to audio broadcasts, people can now see visual broadcasts.
Communication tools in the Internet Age
The technology of sharing records on our home computers has been around since the ARPANET, in the previous decade, but has not yet been mass-operated, considering that no one has been interested in relaying messages between computer networks. However.
It didn't take long after the massive penetration of computers in the market with very simple programs that could make people addicted to lingering in front of the computer, such as interactive counting, chess, and studying word art.
Finally, computers began to be networked with one another with a simple network, the Intranet Server.
And in the 1990s, the effective Internet as we know it today was born. The Internet is arguably included in the order of the greatest inventions ever made by man, because it has made communication instantaneously with a load that is better and sharper than all communication tools ever created.
People can talk to each other, even to people on opposite sides of the planet, cheaply and for free.
In addition, it has also provided access to the whole world, even remote parts of the earth, only with the help of satellite signals, where coverage for all of the earth's surface is 100%.
Communication Tools Instant
Instant messaging is performed most often on the keyboard over the Internet. Then, in the mid-early 2000s, Skype offered online calling, messaging and video calling around the world via the Internet. Skype is a free service for video calling services.
Twitter is the next instant messaging which is basically part of the mass communication tools applied on the internet. As a massage room, Twitter is able to get people to create messages and share them with multiple recipients.
Twitter is a social media that allows instant interaction between users, who can communicate interactively with each other, with minimal delay, just like the improved radio pager facility in the 90s.
Then, another instant messaging is Facebook which is a social media platform similar to MySpace and its predecessors. Facebook has many functions and benefits and allows users to communicate individually or for large groups. Uploading images is a prominent feature of Facebook and allows for free digital logging.
In 2011, Facebook had more than 600 million users. Then continued with the development of digital technology to support instant messaging, communication tools became more personal and positioned for human use.
With the penetration of mobile phones for the first time, which first appeared in 1984, and then grew rapidly in the 1990s. Now, approaching the second decade of the millennium, mobile phones along with the internet are communication tools that always accompany humans, even when they defecate in bed or in the toilet.