The first newspapers were nothing like our papers today. They were more like fetters containing news. In the fifth century B.C., there were men in Rome who wrote these newsletters and sent them to people who lived far away from the capital.

Something more like our papers was established by Lucius Caesar in 60 B.C. He had the government publish a daily bulletin for posting in the Forum. Devoted chiefly to government announcements it was called Acura Diurna, which meant “Daily Happenings.”