the.com/telegram
The original text message, charged by the word and delivered before you could overthink it.
means A message sent by telegraph, transmitted over wires as electrical signals and delivered as a printed or written note.
from Coined in the mid-19th century from Greek tÄēle-, "far off, distant," and -gram, "thing written" (from graphein, "to write") â literally a "distant writing." It was built to match telegraph ("distant writer"), and the new word drew a few purist complaints for being half-Greek, half-improper. The purists lost; the wires won.
- price per word
- Brevity wasn't style, it was billing
- famous last STOP
- Punctuation cost extra, so 'STOP' replaced periods
- Titanic SOS
- Wireless telegrams summoned ships to the wreck
- final send
- India's service died in 2013, ending the era
- app afterlife
- Now a chat app pretending to honor the name
telegram messenger app — pavel durov's encrypted messaging platform launched 2013, 900m+ users as of 2024
western union telegram — telegraph-based message service that operated from 1851-2006, peak of 20m+ messages yearly