What are the different ways of communicating without the internet?
Actually, communicating is not rich because of the Internet, its just adapted and in many cases speedier. Some of the ways one can communicate without the internet is by letter writing, by postcard, by fax, by cassette tape, by CD and/or DVD, by telephone on landline, or payphone, by cell phone, in person, by having someone else deliver an oral message, letter, or song, and then there are by filling out forms for some reason, such as to apply for assistance from all sorts of organizations. There is also the well known and long used form of book writing and all the variations there of. A play can be a form of communication. Songs have always been forms of communication that can be general or very personal. Sign language is the major form of communication for a great many in the Deaf Community and their older telephone system to link the hearing who do not know sign with the deaf still exists. Art is one of the oldest forms of communication. In fact, the highest compliment one can give t
Back before the net was made availible to the public people used BBS’s and various networks such as FIDO net and VBBSnet. It was slower and somebody had to foot the long distance bills. Back then there was no such thing as free long distance. You paid through the nose to call somebody sometimes a block away from you but in a different zone. Today using the telecomunications backbone or at worst the free long distance that is common a private network could easily be setup that duplicated the function of the Internet. If you had to resort to modems high bandwidth items like streaming video would overload the system but email, websites and such would function quite well. Community TV was a growing medium before the internet. The net soon made it obsolete. It was far more expensive, less responsive and required expensive hardware. Print medium such as letters and newspapers are still used heavily. Texting is about to blossem into it’s own medium really. Right now it’s still rather primitiv
