Different Communication Types

Communication Type	What was it?	When was it used?	What did it replace?	What replaced it?
The Pony Express	The Pony Express is an express delivery of mail and business letters by horseback.	April 1860 - October 1861	It replaced stagecoach carriages that delivered the mail in twice the time.	The Transcontinental Telegraph replaced the Pony Express.
Morse Code	The Morse code is a code that represents letters as long and short beeps. It was named after Samuel Morse.	1836 - 2015	It replaced the Pony Express and Carriage deliveries due to it’s faster method of transferring information.	Modern technologies such as the Fax machine, Telephone, and the Internet replaced the system.
Semaphore	A Semaphore is a flag system using red and yellow flags and doing certain directions to convey a message.	1684 - Present	The Semaphore flag replaced letter delivery due to people signalling one another instead of sending letters back and forth.	The Semaphore flag was replaced by the electronic telegraph by Samuel Morse.
ASCII	ASCII represents different letters, numbers and symbols as two binary codes (0 and 1).	1963 - Present	ASCII did not replace anything as it was a code that started to represent different codes as binary codes or other codes.	It has not been replaced as of this time.