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LiveScience.com – Era Ends: Western Union Stops Sending Telegrams
The last telegram was sent on January 26, 2006 without fanfare or notice. First, long distance service became more cost effective, then came the fax machine, and then, as the article says, email was the nail in the telegram’s coffin.
What next, the end of the stagecoach?
RIP, Telegram