February 1st, 2006
Western Union Phases Out The Telegram After 145 Years
By Michael Tate
Guest Editorial for RealTechNews
Time marches on, and all things change. So it is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that we have come to a great moment when something we’ve had available for longer than 100 years has finally been discontinued. Western Union has decided to stop providing Telegraph service.
No more Governors pardons delivered at the last minute, no more joyous announcements of the new baby, no more dreaded MIA or KIA messages from the military command. Telegraphy deserved more than this, so much more. Now it will become a fading memory for thousands of us who were the recipients of messages delivered by this method.
I will miss you, dear telegram. I will miss you greatly. As a child, I owned a key and a sounder, both of which were authentic Western Union devices, having come from an office that was being converted over to teletype machines….I even had the large dry cell Rayovac batteries as well. -sigh-
Lockergnome's Tech News Watch says:
Western Union Phases Out The Telegram After 145 Years
Michael Tate, Guest Columnist at RealTechNews writes: Time marches on, and all things change. So it is with a heavy heart that I must inform you that we have come to a great moment when something we’ve had available for longer than 100 years has final…
February 1st, 2006 at 9:57 pm
Virginia Swaney says:
Woe is me! Can it really be that a tradition older than time itself, it seems, is going to “pack it in”?? What will go next?? This is a sad day for sure for all of America.
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