The Importance Of Communication Between 1800's And Today

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Think all the way back to the 1800’s and 1900’s when communication was dangerous and difficult. They had to send mail and if it was a long way away, it made it take very long and dangerous. Now we have just accepted the fact that we can text/send a message across the country and it will only take seconds. People have taken this for granted and have not taken the time to be grateful for it. Imagine how hard it would be if your child lives on the other part of the United States and you had to send an urgent message about your husband dying? You simply couldn't get it to them fast enough for them to know in time. This would be horrible to get this letter and think your father is still alive yet he probably wasn’t because you didn’t get it in time. This is how hard it was to live and communicate in the past. Besides being very slow, it was also dangerous for the mailman in the 1800’s when Native Americans still live on the unknown lands. Not just Native Americans, but wildlife and bad …show more content…
Back then it was very unreal to the people living in that time. This makes me glad that I live in this time era and not in the past when technology wasn’t as advanced as it is today.
I am also glad that I live where I do and are who I am. I have electricity and technology in general when other people in the world don’t. This makes me very grateful that I can communicate with my friends and family when I am not with them to talk to them. This would also make it very difficult to live if you can’t communicate to the people who are close to you. Maybe not even the people close to you, but imagine if you had a business and you couldn’t communicate with them fast, so you had to mail something to them or simply just meet up somewhere. That would make business a lot slower, which could turn out to be bad and make your business go