CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Common Carrier, The Daily Courant, Stagecoach
21 Nov 2017
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1st postal service: louis xi in france 1464 (wasn"t universal, only included people he liked) 15th/16th century: partial postal service proliferate - other nobles started postal services. 17th/18th century: individual services link up for common carrier service . Anywhere that is connected to the postal services are linked. First time you could reliably get messages from one place to another, get more personal info from someone further away. Corantos: note of current events of his area that might be of interest to other areas. 1586-1640: star chamber in england - the government"s attempt to clamp down on newspapers, Uk: daily courant first daily newspaper 1702. Distribution: hawkers, newsagents, coffee houses, taverns, taken to provinces by stagecoach and postal service. Connecting a nation from coast to coast.
