Well, here's a
shocker. "Western Union delivered its last telegram Friday," ending 155 years of service.
The shock is that I didn't realize telegrams -- "urgent" wired messages
from afar hand-delivered to your door -- were still available.
The last time I recall receiving a telegram was when I graduated from college, in the dark ages of 1978.
Perhaps the lesson from that is that old media takes a long time to die
after it's been usurped by new technologies. So to those who think that
printed newspapers will completely disappear at some point in the
coming decades, don't be so sure.
