In 2011, high-speed internet connects buyers and sellers. This internet paves the way for us to get products within days of an online purchase. Our “net generation” has changed people to be more innovative, and have an expectation of immediacy with fast results. But what if we did not have the internet? How would we communicate?

In the 1900s

The United States struggled with communication. We didn’t have mail, gravel roads, or communication outside of our neighbors. But one day, an American Farmer D. Ward King had had enough. Born from a devotion to increase communication between towns, and high hopes of better sales of his crops, he created the King...