Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams after 145 years

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Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams after 145 years

02-05-2006, 11:11 AM,

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Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams after 145 years

Quote:After 145 years, Western Union has quietly stopped sending telegrams.

On the company's web site, if you click on "Telegrams" in the left-side navigation bar, you're taken to a page that ends a technological era with about as little fanfare as possible:

"Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services...

The decline of telegram use goes back at least to the 1980s, when long-distance telephone service became cheap enough to offer a viable alternative in many if not most cases. Faxes didn't help. Email could be counted as the final nail in the coffin.

full article: http://www.livescience.com/technology/06...union.html

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