R.I.P. The Telegram
By Deane Barker on June 15, 2013
World’s last telegram to be sent next month: Wow. Shocking to see that there’s still considerable volume here.
[…] 5,000 telegrams are still sent every day in India.
But that’s all coming to an end on July 13, when the country’s state-owned telecom company, BSNL, will end its telegraph service for good, the Christian Science Monitor reports.
As I wrote about a few months ago, I had a brief intellectual fling with information theory, a discipline really given birth by things like the telegram, and the problem of how to send as much information as possible in the most efficient way.
A quick online search turns up plenty of businesses running telegram services, including several operating in the US.
Are they actual telegrams, though, or something that purports to be a telegram but is really just an email or Net-connected messaging platform?