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Long ago, sending a message to a faraway friend was very slow.
People sent written messages over long distances by having riders carry letters, often on horseback or aboard ships, since no faster way existed to move information across long stretches of land or sea. A single message could take days or weeks to arrive depending on distance and travel conditions, so people had to plan and be patient when writing to someone far away.
Email did not exist back then, that's a modern invention relying on computers and the internet, and video calls are even newer technology, needing cameras, screens, and instant digital connections that were unimaginable in the era of horseback letter delivery.
Today a written message can cross the entire world in a single second thanks to the internet, a staggering change from a time when letters might take weeks just to reach the next town over, let alone another country.
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