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You can't even do a google search for "telegram" without instead finding info about a "cloud-based instant messaging service" of the same name.
1 posted on 12/17/2017 12:37:58 PM PST by Impy
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RIP telegrams, stop.


2 posted on 12/17/2017 12:38:54 PM PST by Impy (I have no virtue to signal.)
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To: Impy

No more “Candygram for Mongo”.


3 posted on 12/17/2017 12:39:21 PM PST by dfwgator
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the UK, which invented the telegram in the 1830s, abandoned it as long ago as 1982.

The United States followed suit in 2006 and even India, which had been by far the world's biggest market for the telegram, finally closed its system down in 2013.

What gives? The telegram should have been dead several decades ago.

7 posted on 12/17/2017 1:27:26 PM PST by NobleFree ("law is often but the tyrant's will, and always so when it violates the right of an individual")
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To: Impy

We used to use an ISP called “Telepath.”


13 posted on 12/17/2017 1:42:54 PM PST by Tax-chick ("The world is a dangerous place, and it's more dangerous if you have something worth stealing."~KW)
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First the railroads and now the telegraph ...

Looks like that ghost dance might finally be working ...

14 posted on 12/17/2017 1:44:05 PM PST by x
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At least it outlived AOL Instant Messenger.


15 posted on 12/17/2017 1:51:12 PM PST by yefragetuwrabrumuy (Liberals have become moralistic, dogmatic, sententious, self-righteous, pinch-faced prudes.)
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