the.com/telecommunication
Making distance irrelevant and small talk unavoidable, one wire at a time.
means The transmission of information—voice, data, images—over a distance using electrical signals, radio waves, or light, rather than physical delivery.
from Built from Greek 'tele' (far off, as in telephone or telescope) plus French 'communication' (from Latin 'communicare', to share or make common). The compound was assembled in the early 20th century, often credited to French engineer Édouard Estaunié, to name a growing family of technologies—telegraph, telephone, radio—that all did the same ancient thing, talking, across distances that used to require a horse.
- origin
- tele means far in Greek, naturally
- first wire
- telegraph beat the telephone by decades
- irony
- connects everyone, satisfies no one fully
- scale
- now mostly just memes at light speed