Communications
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- 21st Century Phone Etiquette
- Chronology of Time
- Material Culture of Journalism: From Poking Clay to Poking Pixels
- Short History of Telecommunications in Malmesbury, Wiltshire
- Accessible Web Design
- Amstrad E-m@iler
- An Idiot's Guide to Trolling
- Bang! Zoom! Drone! Deliveries Going Postal to the Isle of Wight
- Beer Sign Language in Flanders, Belgium
- Between Silk and Cyanide: Leo Marks Decodes SOE
- Blogs and Blog Entries
- Body Language
- Bush House, London, UK
- Business Telephone Systems
- Chain Letters
- Cocking a Snook
- Cryptography - Codes and the Zimmermann Telegram
- Cyber Sex
- Deus Ex Machina
- DynaTAC 8000X - the World's First Mobile Phone
- Email Addresses in ASCII Code
- Ergonomics
- European Cellular Networks - an Introduction
- Extra - Extra! Read All About It!
- Facebook - an Introduction
- Fake News [42]
- Flaming and Trolling
- Franklin, Colbert, and the Power of Truthiness
- GCHQ - Government Communications Headquarters
- German Licence Plates
- Gregg Jevin and #RIPGreggJevin - A Sad Tale of Death By Twitter
- History of the Postal Service
- How To Report A Residential Exchange Line Fault
- How To Run A Radio Show In The UK
- How To Run A Webcomic
- How to Fake an English Accent in a Chatroom
- How to Play 'Chinese Whispers'
- How to Successfully Claim for Compensation from the Royal Mail
- How to be Antisocial in an Online Meeting
- Interactive Voice Response Systems
- Internationalised Domain Names - Bringing the World to the Web
- Internet Acronyms, Smileys and Emoticons
- Jane Elliott and the Brown Eyes, Blue Eyes Exercise
- LAN Parties
- Makaton - a Method of Communication for Disabled People
- Memorable Football Press Conferences
- Message in a Bottle
- Michael Moore - Multi-media Polemicist
- Mobile Phone Emissions
- Mobile Phones
- Mobile Phones and Aircraft
- Mobile Phones: Hand Free Attachment
- Modern Cryptography - Methods and Uses
- Morse Code - a Method of Communication
- Newsgroup Discussions
- Online Friends
- Post Office Boxes (UK)
- Post-post Remorse
- Postboxes of the Isle of Wight
- Postcrossing - The Postcard Crossing Project
- Printing a Newspaper in the 20th Century
- Psion Wavefinder Digital Radio Receiver
- Public Key Cryptography in Today's Communication
- Quill Pens
- Round Robins
- Satellite and Digital Radio in North America
- Saucy Seaside Postcards - Their Ups and Downs
- Screen-readers and Speech Synthesisers
- Sexy Abe Lincoln: A Twitter History Lesson
- Smileys
- Stuck for a No-touch Greeting? Try Spock's Vulcan Salute: Live Long, and Prosper
- Surviving an Internet Blockade
- TEMPEST and Electronic Security
- Talkers - Elusive Internet Chat Rooms
- Talking With Cats
- Tape Hiss
- Telephone Preference Service (TPS)
- Telephones
- Telling a Tall Tale - A Primer
- Development of the Western Alphabet
- Enigma Cipher Machine
- Four Main Reasons Why Scientists are Sometimes Incomprehensible
- History of the Portuguese Postal Service
- Internet - an Introduction
- Joy of PC Keyboard Shortcuts
- Mobile Phone and Forecourt Fires
- Mojave Phone Booth
- Mysterious Treasure of Thomas Beale
- NATO phonetic alphabet
- Origins of Writing - Clay Pidgin?
- Politics of Internet Discussion
- Post Office Underground Railway, London
- T-Loop
- Trouble With Ciphers
- Thoreau-ly Original: Henry David Thoreau and the New England Pencil
- Thorn - Missing Letter of the Alphabet
- Touchscreen Smartphones: Android versus Apple
- Twitter to the Barricades! #secondcivilwarletters and Their Meaning
- Types of Essays
- Walt Kelly v Joseph McCarthy: Okefenokee Swamp (and Pogo) to the Rescue
- Web 2.0
- Web Comics - A Brief Description
- Website Promotion for Beginners
- What3words: How to Be Found on Earth, or Finally, an Electronic Thumb
- Writing Text Messages
- Writing to celebrities - How to achieve the best results
- e-MERLIN - The Future of the UK's National VLBI Facility
- h2g2 Smileys
- ‹/UNSUB› - Slamming the Door on Your Way Out
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