“Communication made easy - Come to my cave!”
Thursday, July 3rd, 2008How far has the simplicity of delivering a simple message come? Following on from Eds blog re Riding the Bucking Browser Bronco………….boy oh boy, what complications there are today regarding the WWW (what to use - Fire Fox, flock, ie6, ie7 etc etc depends on the message being sent and on quality of receipt of message ) when all we want is carefree, simple and interchangeable communication….Maybe, just maybe, the www fraternity can learn from history…
> Mobile Phone (multitude of suppliers - all interchangeable) > Fax (BT, AT&T etc - all interchangeable) > Land Line Phones (BT, AT&T etc ..all interchangeable) > Telegraph (hundreds of suppliers in different countries…guess what..all worked fine + well together) > Letters - Mail (Royal Mail, Poste Italia, Pony Express and 100s more in different countries…all worked fine + well together) > Egyptian-style hieroglyphics (gets a bit more iffy here, but as most people didn’t travel too far from their own areas - worked well - as long as you had a chisel + mallet) > Caveman Drawings - possibly the start of the boy/girl chat up line “would you like to see my etchings?”…drawings understood by cave dwellers (biggish assumption made here, dear Reader)…however, slight drawback with our Cave People - they couldn’t communicate all that well verbally (occasional Uggh and so on) so, when one not-so-enlightened cave dweller, asks of the cave artist, when pointing to a cave drawing, (have to imagine this) uggh, ugh, aahh, ugg? (what’s the weight and wing span of the terradactyl my dear artist?) …the cave artist responds in cavelingo “can’t give you the exact detail until someone invents the www….when all information access and communication systems will be really simple!”
