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Well, it’s the end of an era. Western Union has decided to stop sending telegrams. too bad, because telegrams — like triple-tap data entry today — once acted as a constraint on long-distance messages, forcing an amusing efficiency of writing at times.
For a couple of generations, telegrams were the way many communicated with friends and family overseas. Now it’s email. What will we all be communicating over when the headlines read “AOL has decided to stop sending email”?
The headline above, by the way, is the Morse code dot-dash pattern for STOP, the traditional delimiter of the sentences in a telegraph message.
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