4 ms·
In middle age Europe, designated herolds came to the town centre and recited news and gossip - an equally time consuming contract for both sides. The invention
by blackbrokkoli 8y ago
In middle age Europe, designated herolds came to the town centre and recited news and gossip - an equally time consuming contract for both sides.
The invention of the Newspaper eliminated that - wouldn't you say that this change was, while disruptive, for the better?
- TeMPOraL 8y agoNewspapers (and listening to heralds) are inherrently pull-based - I choose to engage with them. Robocalls and spam are push-based - you force yourself on me, wasting my time.
- sah2ed 8y agoI think you meant to write "town crier" instead of herald [0], though its wikipedia page does mention herald in the "See also" section. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_crier https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Town_crier