{"id":547908,"date":"2006-02-03T11:35:27","date_gmt":"2006-02-03T11:35:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost:8888\/wordpress\/technology\/547908-internet-ends-us-telegram-era.html"},"modified":"2006-02-03T11:35:27","modified_gmt":"2006-02-03T11:35:27","slug":"internet-ends-us-telegram-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/547908-internet-ends-us-telegram-era.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet ends US telegram era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><font size=\"2\">In a final irony, Western Union, which flashed good and bad news\u00a0 to Americans in distinctive yellow envelopes for a century and a half, quietly announced its decision to end the service on its website. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;Western Union will discontinue all Telegram and Commercial Messaging services,&quot; the notice read. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>&quot;We regret any inconvenience this may cause you, and we thank you for your loyal patronage.&quot; <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"2\">The announcement, effective on January 27, consigned the telegram, which told generations of Americans of births, deaths, or\u00a0 the loss of a loved one on a foreign battlefield, reflects the new era of communications on the Internet, by email, and with mobile phones and fax machines. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>Western Union&#8217;s parent company was formed in 1851, and the firm adopted its now famous name five years later. By 1861 it was providing coast-to-coast telegraph communications during the American Civil War. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The firm provided the first stock ticker for the New York Stock Exchange, and introduced its money transfer business, its core activity, in 1871. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>In 1933, Western Union for the first time serenaded Americans with singing telegrams. <br \/>\u00a0 <br \/>The first sign that the telegraph machines would soon be heading\u00a0 for museums came in 2000, when the company launched its website.\u00a0<br \/>\u00a0\u00a0<br \/><em>Inet-Bridge ||<\/em> \u00a0 <\/font><a href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php?t=36948\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><font size=\"2\">Discuss this article<\/font><\/a><font size=\"2\"> <\/font><\/p>\n<p><em><font size=\"2\"><\/font><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><br \/>\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Internet STOP just brought the age of the American telegram STOP to a stop STOP.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-547908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547908"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547908\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}