Before Twitter There Was the French Post Offce
Posted in Research News on Nov 11th, 2011
STANFORD UNIVERSITY – If you feel overwhelmed by social media, you’re hardly the first. Think of Europeans of the 17th and 18th centuries. They suddenly had to cope with the Copernican Revolution, the invention of the printing press, the exploration of the New World, and public postal systems that became the equivalent of Facebook, Twitter, [...]
