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I lamented on Facebook that I regretted never receiving a telegram in my life. Having grown up watching people in movies and TV getting telegrams, by the time
by mgkimsal 11y ago
I lamented on Facebook that I regretted never receiving a telegram in my life. Having grown up watching people in movies and TV getting telegrams, by the time I hit adulthood, the age of telegrams was largely gone.
A few weeks later, I received a telegram - a friend on Facebook found a service that still does telegrams, and I got it. I think it was rather expensive, but the gesture was still appreciated :)
- ghaff 11y agoI've never received or sent a telegram. However, in my first full-time job in the early 80s, telex was our primary communications mechanism between our global operations offices (offshore drilling). You (typically) hand-wrote a transmission sheet and sent it up to the communications center which sent it out.
- ahazred8ta 11y agoYou can print your own fake telegram as a gift. This is an editable PDF of a classic 1930s Western Union telegraph form. http://www.cthulhulives.org/toybox/propdocs/PropTelegram3.html http://www.cthulhulives.org/toybox/propdocs/PropTelegram3.ht... -also- http://www.cthulhulives.org/toybox/propdocs/PropTelegram1.html http://www.cthulhulives.org/toybox/propdocs/PropTelegram1.ht...
- noyesno 11y agoWhile not the same thing, you may enjoy testing the NTS (National Traffic System)[0][1] for sending ARRL Radiograms[3]. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Traffic_System [1] http://www.arrl.org/nts-manual [3] http://www.arrl.org/files/file/Public%20Service/RADIOGRAM-2011.pdf