The telegraph just as disruptive in it's time as the Internet was in the 1990s. Before the telegraph, messages took days, if not weeks to reach cross-country. E

The telegraph just as disruptive in it's time as the Internet was in the 1990s. Before the telegraph, messages took days, if not weeks to reach cross-country. Every telco since then, (Including the Internet) has been an extension or abstraction of it. Awesome article.