Lydia Pyne, "Postcards: The Rise and Fall of the World’s First Social Network" (Reaktion Books, 2021)
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What Is the First Postgard?
Trying to pin down the first of things gets really i it feels like it should be so straightforward, and it ends up being kind of kind of tricky. Am, there is theodore hook in 18 forty, who comes up with a postcard. In 18 69, the austrian postal department issues regulations about what can go on a postcards. And so we really sort of buy the late nineteenth century, we see postcards absolutely takin off. Riht an, it's also a part of the history of industrialization.
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