Talk:History of communication

message: This important topic has been much neglected of late, at least in discussion, possibly because the existing structure is somewhat limited. I propose a re-structuring of this article, chronologically representing significant periods of human communicaton history: prehistoric periods, periods of antiquity, middle ages, early and late modern. Within each broad chronological heading, a discussion of communication history could include social, political and economic factors that influenced and enabled communications, the media and inscribing tools (communications technologies), and key thinkers and innovators in communications history.
There are likely other histories of commmunication in other global regions, so this article could be comprehensive enough to include such histories in China, India, Central and South Americas; or, it could focus on the histories of the Middle East, Africa and Europe, and be renamed as such.Sansoko (talk) 02:07, 25 October 2011 (UTC)
thread_title: Suggest restructuring this article

message: I have written an article on this subject and I'd be happy to share it with Wiki, unfortunately it is in Polish here. Feel free to Babelfish it for info, and I'll try to translate it time permitting.--Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus Talk 07:08, 16 January 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I have destubbed the article by translating the first part. The second, about alphabet, I will leave for later, especially as I have encountered problems translating some specialized terms from Polish wiki, especially names of the writing systems, which are no interlinked to en wiki (see :pl:Kategoria:Pismo). The third part, about technology, I am leaving for later.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  18:11, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  History of communication 

message: I'm not educated enough in the subject to specify a corrected date, but I'm pretty sure that "2400 AD" as a date for couriers and postal systems is off by a milennium or so. 8-) I'm guessing 1400 AD is the intended date, but want to verify before editing anything. Bschoner 20:07, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: According to the mail article this is a correct date, although BC not AD :) We should of course verify this in an off-wiki publication.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  18:12, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  2400 AD? 

message: In what sense was Acta Diurna the "first book"?  This needs clarifying... — Haeleth Talk 20:41, 4 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Good catch, it was the first newspaper, not a book. That entire lower section is just a draft. I added a link to History of the book; the newspaper article when I checked it few days ago did not even have a section on history.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  03:28, 5 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: From what I found browsing through some articles about the telephone, the date specified for this invention in the lower section of the article (1848 AD) is a bit off, and as I understand should be something like 1876. Can anybody confirm/deny this? — Tyger7th (talk) 15:40, 2 March 2008 (UTC)

text: I am new to working with wikipedia and find that there are many fact checkers and people willing to find new or updated information. This is a good introduction to a new website for me. GriffinSch (talk) 13:09, 9 March 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Timeline 

message: There are a very few sentences in the article which are not about the vias which are used in communication.  Most of the article is a "history of communication symbols".  The first part of the article mentions audio vias used in communicating.  The article mentions that animals somehow might communicate and provides a link.  But what is communication? Nothing much in the article about the steps necessary for a communication to take place.  Nothing about an intent to communicate, about a duplication of the transmitted information by the reciever, nothing about the receiver then processing the duplication to understand what was intended to be communicated.  But its an interesting "History of communication symbols". Terryeo 04:38, 12 September 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Ekhm what is a via? And yes, the rest of the article needs to be developed, I had no time and will yet to translate the rest of my Polish article into English.-- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  04:45, 17 September 2006 (UTC)

text: All right, I'll add this to my more urgent 'to do' list. Feel free to bug me more, that will likely increase the speed I come back to this article :) -- Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus | talk  22:49, 27 October 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  The use of communication vias 

message: Another change I plan to make is to delete the section on 'history of telecommunication'.  A subheading for telecommunication is warranted, directed to a different Wikipedia article, as this is an article unto itself, or this could be moved to the "See Also" section. Sansoko (talk) 08:49, 1 November 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Further suggestion for revision 

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message: It seems evident to me that this article, based on its contents, should be titled “History of human communication”. Has this proposal been explored previously? YarLucebith (talk) 15:54, 1 February 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Communication vs human communication 

message: I've thrown a citation needed on the claim that speech arose 500,000 BCE. This estimate doesn't agree with the article on Origin of speech. Recommend that if a citation can't be found supporting this estimate, the article be edited to show the scholarly range of estimates. Ordinary Person (talk) 18:25, 23 October 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  500,000 BCE 

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message: Sfchdjis 2405:201:600A:20CC:5523:D47A:6CB8:5EC6 (talk) 13:59, 15 December 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  Community device used in in Olden time 

message: — Assignment last updated by Jennie922wow (talk) 02:22, 2 December 2022 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: CMN2160B

message: i have been on this article a few times in the past few day when look in to some of the stuff on the page i could not find anything on radioax under fax and it links to a page that dose not exist i think it should be removed.
thanks TopHatGuy1 
TopHatGuy1 (talk) 20:08, 1 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  radioax 

message: I need this for school 74.74.210.114 (talk) 20:57, 11 October 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where are things for the 1600's  

message: — Assignment last updated by C.Shoebox (talk) 15:18, 22 April 2024 (UTC)
thread_title: Wiki Education assignment: Criticism as Praxis