A Timeline of Measuring the Public and Public Opinion

Did you ever wonder how we got here? To the age of public opinion polls knowing what everyone thinks about stuff before it even happens? I did. So I looked it up and found out it was not always this way. As a matter of fact, in the grand scheme of things, the very idea of "public opinion" is pretty new and all these polls are even newer. See my website and this page for a history of public opinion polls and related matters.
The URL is http://www.panmodern.com/timelinepublicopinion.htm