Since the beginning of human history, the evolution of communication has shaped the pace of cultural shifts and the course of knowledge.

The goal of this brief history is to examine people within their social context, to recall some major movements that transformed them, and to question their habits and behaviors, which we often take for granted and consider self-evident.

Around the same time that Constantinople fell, the invention of the printing press marked a pivotal milestone in shaping the modern world. Gradually, social experiences resemble an acceleration of history.

Alongside the Italian Renaissance, the Protestant Reformation, and various Enlightenment movements, the industrial revolutions, the nuclear revolution, and the establishment of the digital world are viewed through the lens of communication changes and social upheavals that occurred before and after the invention by the German metallurgist.