Effective January 27, 2006, Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services. We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage.A little less than 162 years before, Samuel FB Morse sent the first telegram, saying:Western Union Telegram, 27 January 2006
What hath God wrought?It took some years for telegrams to become commercially available, and it’s possible there is some company still sending telegrams today, but more than a century and a half is a pretty long run for a technology. Continue reading