History of the Calendar

• Calendars were developed to keep track of important events, such as the changing of the seasons or when migrating animals will return. The first calendars were based on the cycles of the moon and tides, but over time, our ancestors began to reckon time by the sun, creating the modern calendar. Like many aspects of life, the calendar has entered the digital age.

Online Calendars

• An online calendar works a lot like your kitchen calendar at home, except you can customize the images and lettering, create your own events and even add your own holidays. American Greetings online calendars can also send email reminders to your personal email account or cell phone. Just think, you'll never have to send another belated birthday ecard again!

Online Communities

• Online community websites such as MySpace.com, Classmates.com and Eons.com can help you stay in touch with family and friends as well as help you organize meetings, dates and times online. Online community bulletin boards and messaging services let you get the word out about reunions, concerts, and family events. Many of these online communities allow you to post pictures or video as well. If you like glitter text and graphics in your MySpace comments, check-out the online postcards on Kiwee.com. You can customize the message and color on a variety of trendy, cute and funny designs.

Online Invitations

• Online invitations let you send the who, what, when and where for your next event with style. All of americangreetings.com's online invitations are free. There is a wide selection of designs for every type of get together, including birthday parties, baby showers, wine tasting parties and romantic dinners for two. Once you've added all the addresses to the online invitation, they are automatically saved in your americangreetings.com address book. This way, when you send thank you ecards to all the event attendees, you won't need to look-up them again!

Online Chat

• Have you noticed that we rarely see advertisements for collect-call and long-distance companies? Now thanks to e-mail, online chat, webcams and internet long distance, there are many more options for reaching out to our loved ones across the country. One of the most important of all of these is online chat, which allows you to type messages online instantly to your family and friends. AOL, MSN, and YAHOO! all offer some of the top online chat programs. To add personality to your IM chat try Kiwee's customizable muggins, emoticons, smileys, winks and chat backgrounds. They allow you to express your sense of style and emotions to friends and family near or far.