Wednesday, September 16, 2009

Twitter 19th Century Style

Read Shelby Warner's entire From the Library column in the Daily News Transcript.

Excerpt:

"Old newspapers are fun to browse. Read the front page of one and you’ll find “Twittering” is not just a present day phenomenon. The local news back then included reports of who went where and when, fell down their front steps or broke a bone, put in a cement sidewalk, painted their house the same color as their brother’s, bought a new team of horses, or seemed a little corpulent at their birthday party.

Twitter, indeed."
Shelby Warner, Reference Librarian