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Then came the telegraph in
1844. People could now send
messages faster and with
more accuracy. This was
followed by these things called
landlines. Apart from allowing us to easily convey emotions through our communications, we started having
some fun through untraceable
prank calls and hilarious
instances of parallel lines
causing immense confusion.
SMS was not far away. The
first text message ever sent
was in 1992. We were now
forced to be crisp — 160 characters only. Around that time,
something really cool was also
invented — the World Wide
Web, commonly called the
web. The web helped popularize the internet among the
public, and served as a crucial

step in developing the vast
trove of information that
most of us now access on a
daily basis.

From then on, the human
race saw a tectonic shift in
how we communicated and
how information was being
accessed and shared. We
started using e-mail as our
primary mode of communication. Remember those thick
encyclopaedias? No? Exactly!
Because we didn’t need them
anymore. We were now using
internet search engines like
Google, to search for anything
— whether it was about history, politics, news, sports, or
popular culture. In fact, we
could now search for restaurants, department stores,
pharmacies etc., and even get
directions to them through
online maps. Our lives had
become extremely convenient
and
everything
was
easy-to-access.