How did they communicate in the 1940s?

Answer 1

In the 1940s, there were many of the same communication capabilities we have today, although some were more expensive or slower. A majority of Americans had their own telephones, for example, but long distance calls were still costly. There was no internet, so people wrote and mailed letters. People also could communicate by mass media-- radio was still popular, and the new mass medium of television began to gather an audience in the late 1940s. The government and the military had been working on development of computers, but these were not generally available to the average person, nor would they be for a long time.

And of course, there was direct communication-- then as now, people got together at public events (concerts, listening to a speaker, enjoying a play, or during the war years, raising money for patriotic causes). When the war ended, and the Baby Boom began, people enjoyed socializing with their friends; also, a number of civic clubs allowed people to belong to a group that both socialized and performed volunteer work in their community.