CS100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Louis Xi Of France, Common Carrier, Bsc Young Boys
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Network communication: postal service: first postal service: louis xi in france 1464 was the first to have the idea of a postal service. You would have to be very wealthy to have a message delivered by a personal messenger. Some people would pay a messenger to deliver their message if the stop was on their journey. If (cid:455)ou did(cid:374)"t k(cid:374)o(cid:449) louis xi, (cid:455)ou (cid:449)ere (cid:374)ot i(cid:374) the postal (cid:374)et(cid:449)ork. At first, messages were only sent to areas important to louis xi: 15th to 17th centuries: partial postal services proliferate. Very prescribed networks that did not link up together: 17th to 18th (cid:272)e(cid:374)turies: i(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual ser(cid:448)i(cid:272)es li(cid:374)k up for (cid:862)(cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374) (cid:272)arrier ser(cid:448)i(cid:272)e(cid:863) Postal service begins to link up between one another. Other nobles began to create their own postal networks. No interaction between louis xi"s (cid:373)esse(cid:374)gers and a messenger of another empire. Early news-sheets: early 1600s, german and dutch cities: cologne, frankfurt, antwerp, berlin.
