Final telegram

Stop

[grandpa]

After 155 years of service Western Union has sent the last telegram STOP The internet it seems is mostly responsible for the demise of the telegram STOP News Story [today.reuters.com]

All is not lost, however. You can still find Singing Telegrams [partypop.com], and Western Union introduced the fax machine {I didn't know that}, so their legacy will live on every time I get another unsolicited fax. (I wonder if they are responsible for the paper shredder I keep next to the fax machine?) Of course these days their main revenue is in financial transactions, so more than anything this is the sad passing of an era, and a nod to the future.

[Visit Thailand]

The Cowboy and Indian movies will never be the same again. stop.

[ronin]

So what was Western Union's last telegram?

Was it by any chance...

STOP

[bobothecat]

and Western Union introduced the fax machine {I didn't know that)

Actually they didn't...

"Facsimile transmission over wires or faxing was invented by Alexander Bain, a Scottish mechanic who in 1843 received a British patent for “improvements in producing and regulating electric currents and improvements in timepieces and in electric printing and signal telegraphs.” Seven years earlier, Samuel Morse invented the telegraph and the fax machine evolved from the telegraph technology."

[inventors.about.com...]
[hffax.de...]

[jsinger]

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(SK)