Why Does Every New Way to Talk Kill the Old One?

What did people do before phones, letters or even writing, when they needed to send a message? Every phone ever, from a red handprint on a cave wall 100,000 years ago to the smartphone in your hand. This is the history of how humans send messages, and why every new way of talking destroys the last one. 🔔 Subscribe and hit the bell, so you never miss the next story. 👍 Like the video if it made you look at your phone differently. 💬 Comment below: which communication tool do you think stops next? Nobody voted to end them. Criers, relay riders, scribes and wire offices all worked, then vanished. In this video the "phone" is every machine that ever carried a message: the mark on the wall, the reed in the river silt, the alphabet on the harbour dock, the printing press in Mainz, the Pony Express, the telegraph wire, the telephone, the wooden cabinet in the corner, and the first login on a university terminal. If you have ever wondered why old technology disappears, how communication technology evolved, or what is standing behind the red dot on your own phone, this is the story. ⏱️ CHAPTERS 0:00 The red dot 1:28 Mark: colour pressed onto limestone 3:20 Word: reed points and river silt 4:47 Alphabet: the board of signs on the dock 6:02 Press: a workshop in Mainz 7:31 Wire: the Pony Express and the telegraph 9:44 Voice: the telephone 11:19 Screen: the cabinet in the corner 12:25 Network: the first login 14:30 Signals: the red dot again 🔔 Enjoyed this? Subscribe to No Road Out and turn on notifications. 🔁 Share it with someone who is always on their phone. 📜 No Road Out is an animated history channel about how ideas, tools and signals travel, and what happens to the ones that stop. #phonehistory #historyofcommunication #technologyhistory