the.com/telecommunications
Turning distance into an inconvenience instead of a barrier, one signal at a time.
means The technology and systems used to send and receive information — voice, data, images — across distance via electrical, electromagnetic, or optical means.
from Built from 'tele-' (Greek for 'far off,' the same root behind telephone and television) plus 'communications,' from Latin 'communicare,' meaning 'to share' or 'to make common.' The compound itself is a 20th-century coinage, stitched together once wires, radio waves, and later satellites made it clear that 'communication' needed a prefix big enough to cover talking across oceans, not just across rooms.
- origin
- tele means far off in Greek
- first wire
- telegraph beat the telephone by 32 years
- speed limit
- capped by light, not ambition
- irony
- connects everyone, perfected the art of hold music