Linked in the comments the other day from the post 'n-wheeled cars' - I loved this post and the idea that pre-internet - news was distributed around europe at b

Linked in the comments the other day from the post 'n-wheeled cars' - I loved this post and the idea that pre-internet - news was distributed around europe at breakneck (illegal?) speeds to get it as swiftly as possible from the printers to other countries hundreds of miles away.