How did people communicate 200 years ago?

Answer 1

From what I understand through reading various books, historical and historical fiction, as well as watching things like Masterpiece Theater, People communicated by talking (of course!) and sending written messages. They used the mail services, such as they were, as mail was often sent with a stage coach or on a boat, as well as trains. Think of the Pony Express.

Mail in towns was often delivered twice a day. Also, there were young boys who would deliver an impromtu note for a small charge, running across town to bring a message to someone.

Sometimes messages that were sent a long way took many months to arrive. Sometimes a letter would be sent to a Post Office in a town and only reach its intended reader when that person went to the Post Office and asked if there was any mail being held for them.

Sometimes notes were nailed up on a tree, or put in a hole in a tree, or in a box in a specially arranged place where the other person would know to look for it.

People have always needed to communicate, and they found and invented many ways to do so.

Yodeling was a way to communicate across the mountains in the Swiss Alps, as were horns, also drums in tropical lands, and also fires and smoke signals. These were pre-arranged sounds and signals that meant particular things --sort of like Morse Code. Text messaging is similar. Flags (besides country's flags) could also be used, as they could have different colors, shapes and symbols. Semaphore flags are used to communicate.

I think the list goes on and on.Yeah it does!

Answer 2

From what I understand through reading various books, historical and historical fiction, as well as watching things like Masterpiece Theater, People communicated by talking (of course!) and sending written messages. They used the mail services, such as they were, as mail was often sent with a stage coach or on a boat, as well as trains. Think of the Pony Express.

Mail in towns was often delivered twice a day. Also, there were young boys who would deliver an impromtu note for a small charge, running across town to bring a message to someone.

Sometimes messages that were sent a long way took many months to arrive. Sometimes a letter would be sent to a Post Office in a town and only reach its intended reader when that person went to the Post Office and asked if there was any mail being held for them.

Sometimes notes were nailed up on a tree, or put in a hole in a tree, or in a box in a specially arranged place where the other person would know to look for it.

People have always needed to communicate, and they found and invented many ways to do so.

Yodeling was a way to communicate across the mountains in the Swiss Alps, as were horns, also drums in tropical lands, and also fires and smoke signals. These were pre-arranged sounds and signals that meant particular things --sort of like Morse Code. Text messaging is similar. Flags (besides country's flags) could also be used, as they could have different colors, shapes and symbols. Semaphore flags are used to communicate.

I think the list goes on and on.Yeah it does!