COMMs Lindisfarne, Tasmania, Australia
By OldSaint on 15-Sep-19. Waypoint GA14046

A cache to communicate some communications to you

The history of communication technologies (media and appropriate inscription tools) have evolved in tandem with shifts in political and economic systems, and by extension, systems of power. Communication can range from very subtle processes of exchange, to full conversations and mass communication. The history of communication itself can be traced back since the origin of speech circa 500,000 BCE. The use of technology in communication may be considered since the first use of symbols about 30,000 years BCE.

Among the symbols used, there are cave paintings, petroglyphs, pictographs and ideograms.

Writing was a major innovation, as well as printing technology and, more recently, telecommunications and the Internet.

Every person has a unique communication style, a way in which they interact and exchange information with others.

Groups have their methods too.

The militaries of the world used flags to indicate their allegiances; they used semaphore to communicate with each other later it was Morse; later still, radio communications and other modern technologies are now used

Codes were developed to keep communications secret

The blind developed Braille

The deaf used sign language

Computers were run on Binary figures

Pitman developed Short Hand

Don’t forget radio and television

The list goes on

You can find this cache at:

South 42 00000 01111 11111 11000 11100

and

East 147 00111 11111 11110 00011 10000

At GZ; if you look up and in the right direction, you will see COMMs Towers in the distance

You will need a writing implement to sign the log

Please enjoy the cache and the scenery

Cheers

OldSaint

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