If there is anything that keeps improving continually over the world it is communication. From ancient India to this day in late 2009, communication, which became part of life, had gone to incredible advancement.
Ancient India had many God men and saints, like Buddha, Mahavira, etc. communicated by travelling and meeting people to spread the message. And medieval India saw some improvements. They used drum beaters who would position at one place and send information using a code based on the beating of the drum.
The man deployed at the next location would pick up this beating noise and relayed. Like a link in the chain, die information was relayed faster than ancient time of word by mouth from one to another.
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Later, pigeons were trained and used to carry messages; it was faster than the previous two. However, it had its own setbacks! At times such pigeons went astray or were attacked and preyed by vultures!
Then came the telegraph invented by Morse. It served die mass at far off places to communicate quickly. Then the invention of the telephone by Alexander Graham Bell saw unbelievable advancement in communication!
Meanwhile, printing machine was invented and newspaper started coming, communicating information, while the rapid development in die transport system helped considerably. The emergence of Fax messages was anodier effective communication in die modern world.
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While so, the satellite that orbit around the earth helped Radio and TV network. More than anything else, the existence of computer witnessed dramatic change in die communication. However, now E-mail reins the throne.
In the meantime, anodier improvement was made in die communication media. It was the Pager!
However, the emergence of mobile phones close on the heels of the Pager wiped it clean as a whistle. Now apart from talking, short messages are being sent by mobile phones.
The invention of hot mail services by Sabeer Bhatia in 1995 and later officially launched it on July 4, 1996, found a new dimension in the communication media. Now this free web service is serving over 400 million people per day across the globe almost in every country! It indeed adds pride to India that an Indian had founded these E-mails services.