Western Union sends last telegram
Posted by Matthew on Friday February 3, 2006 @12:21AM
from the what-hath-god-wrought dept.
Matthew writes: To celebrate the sending of the last telegram ever on January 26th, 2006 (145 years after Samuel Morse sent the first one) we thought we’d use the SlashNOT transchronizer to celebrate the death of various other technologies.
- 2008 Last UPC code scanned
- 2009 Last NTSC television signal transmitted
- 2010 Last tape backup completes
- 2011 Last free e-mail message sent
- 2015 Last unchipped baby born
- 2019 Last dial-tone line decommissioned
- 2030 Last router on the IP based Internet shut down
- 2030 Last road-legal manually driven car produced