The team was chatting about the fact that Leeds, founded in 1906, is one of the oldest business schools in the country. That's over 100 years old, which in this digital age might as well be a million. I'm sure back then the only tweets heard were birds up in the trees, and poking your neighbor, unlike today's activity on Facebook, might get you a swift kick in the shin. But "back then" people still communicated, and while slower and more localized, it had many of the same functions/purposes as our technology today. I can imagine that:
- They made announcements at large public meetings or on street corners (like blogging and twitter in that you send it out to whomever to read/hear, and other people "re-tweeted" in the same way)
- They had conversations one on one (email)
- They stood on the street with sandwich board signs around their necks (blast email)
- And, they always looked for new ways to do all these things which leads us to today and all the things we do.
What do you think, was communication really so different today than it was 100 years ago?
Good points. Back then though, communication was a lot more formal. The informality and brevity of today's various communications mediums would not have stood back then.