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September 20, 2004
It's Time to Celebrate
Holidays. I love the rituals, the food, the colours! As the Internet brings the world closer together, it also brings us all closer to all of the festivals, holidays and holy days celebrated on this wonderful planet.
I found this fascinating article on the History of Greeting Cards which claims that the oldest known greeting card in existence is from the 1400's and is in the British Museum. It's a Valentine. The introduction of the postage stamp popularized the sending of paper cards in the mid 1800's. And a German immigrant, Louis Prang, is the father of the American Christmas card. He manufactured his first card in 1875.
Conspicuously missing from this history is the e-card. The e-greeting, created first by Blue Mountain Arts in 1996, has opened up a new world of possibility to greeting cards. And it has brought to my attention a whole new list of holidays when people send greeting cards.
Posted by photocartoonist at September 20, 2004 11:24 PM