How busniess communication has changed in the last 50 years

It was not long before the fax became a standard office equipment

The Columbia Encyclopedia (2005 ) asserts that it was also at this time that the Internet had its beginnings through a military defense project called ARPAnet (Advanced Research Projects Agency network . It was a secret feasibility study conceived by the U .S . Department of Defense in 1969 to test methods of enabling computer networks to survive military attacks by means of dynamic rerouting of messages ( Internet

Business Communication from 1968 to 1977

In 1971 , International Business Machines (IBM ) introduced the

first "memory disk , or the " HYPERLINK "http /inventors .about .com /library /weekly /aa110198 .htm " floppy disk where data was written to and read from a plastic disk coated with magnetic iron oxide ( Invention of the Floppy Disk , January 2007 This invention facilitated the storage and transfer of s from one computer to another . While it used to take a lot of and physical space to store important records , they could now be compressed in the floppy disk for future retrieval . Speedy access and retrieval of s became the norm such that offices ceased to become repositories of pile after pile of document . Within this decade too , Motorola introduced the first pager in 1974 which was aptly named Pageboy , a radio frequency device that allowed the pager user to receive messages on a specific frequency on a special network of radio stations ( All About Pagers n .d ) Through this device , doctors were notified about the conditions of their patients and were summoned in cases of emergencies . The device was popular on account of the fact that one did not need to be within the vicinity of a landline phone in to be reached . Eventually , one of the must haves of an upwardly mobile executive was the possession of this miniature...