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Subject: Death of the Telegram
Written By: Tia on 03/17/06 at 8:07 pm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5186113
ANYBODY ELSE NOTICE THIS STORY RECENTLY STOP
THE TELEGRAM WHICH HAS BEEN AROUND FOR ABOUT A CENTURY QUIETLY WENT KAFLOOIE A COUPLE OF WEEKS AGO STOP
WHO WILL MOURN THE PASSING OF THE TELEGRAM STOP
Subject: Re: Death of the Telegram
Written By: whistledog on 03/17/06 at 9:17 pm
I miss the Singing Telegram ;D
Subject: Re: Death of the Telegram
Written By: MaxwellSmart on 03/17/06 at 10:06 pm
I knew the telegram still lurked as a form of telecommunication, but I never sent one. I don't think I know anybody who has sent a telegram in the last, oh, thirty years! You could have told me the last telegram got sent ten years ago and I wouldn't have batted an eye.
For a good piece of that 150 year history of the telegram it was all Morse Code. You had to have a Morse Code expert on both ends of the line to enter and translate the Morse Code!
Subject: Re: Death of the Telegram
Written By: La Sine Pesroh on 03/18/06 at 4:27 am
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Subject: Re: Death of the Telegram
Written By: gmann on 03/18/06 at 12:58 pm
"Fifteen cents a word to read / A telegram I didn't need."
Subject: Re: Death of the Telegram
Written By: Marian on 03/18/06 at 5:23 pm
Doesn't mr. Burns from the simpsons still use them,or is that the telegraph??? ;D ;D ;D
Subject: Re: Death of the Telegram
Written By: Tia on 03/19/06 at 11:29 am
Doesn't mr. Burns from the simpsons still use them,or is that the telegraph??? ;D ;D ;D
i think telegrams were originally sent over telegraphs. the telegram was the message, the telegraph the medium.