Cosma / Communication / Media / Communications
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Introduction1
Dictionary
communications : the technology of the transmission of information (as by print or telecommunication) — Webster See also OneLook
Encyclopedia
Communications, short for telecommunications, is the transmission of information over distances to communicate. In earlier times, it involved the use of visual signals, such as beacons, smoke signals, semaphore telegraphs, signal flags, and optical heliographs, or audio messages such as coded drumbeats, lung-blown horns, and loud whistles. In modern times, telecommunications involves the use of electrical devices such as the telegraph, telephone, and teleprinter, as well as the use of radio and microwave communications, as well as fiber optics and their associated electronics, plus the use of the orbiting satellites and the Internet. — Wikipedia
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Communications (Wolfram Alpha)
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Communication, transportation and commerce have been intertwined since the beginning of human history, and they remain closely related.
The success of the first electronic telegraph line in 1844 opened an era of modern communication. Before the telegraph there existed no separation between transportation and communication. Information traveled only as fast as the messenger who carried it. — D. J. Czitrom, Media and the American Mind
This reality was even codified in the Dewey Decimal library classification system:
380 Commerce, Communications, Transportation (Library Thing)
See also Communication, Transportation and Commerce
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Preservation
History
Communications (Engineering and Technology History Wiki)
IEEE Milestones Timeline (Engineering and Technology History Wiki)
Museum
Communications Collections (Smithsonian National Museum of American History)
Library
Melvil Decimal System # 384 Communications (Library Thing)
Library of Congress Subject Heading: Communications (Library Thing)
Library of Congress # HE7572 Communications (UPenn Online Books)
WorldCat, Library of Congress, UPenn Online Books, Open Library
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Participation
Education
MERLOT: Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching
OER Commons: Open Educational Resources
Community
Occupation
News
Communications / Networking (Communications of the ACM)
Government
US Federal Communications Commission
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Here are links to pages about closely related subjects.
Function | Communications | Computation | Storage | Creation | Simulation |
Analog | Device | Paper | Type, Print | Automaton | |
Electronic | Network | Calculator | Tape | Record | Elektro |
Digital | Internet | Computer | |||
Hardware | Modem | Microprocessor | Memory | Peripheral | Robot, XR |
Software | Service (Web) | Program (OS, SS) | Database | Application | AI, VW |
Format Multimedia (Video, Animation) Image (Object) Scent, Flavor, Audio (Text) Haptic, “Other“
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Historically Associated Subjects
Communication, Transportation and Commerce
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