I thought some of you might find this idly interesting. Western Union ended support for their telegram service on January 27, 2006, after 145 years!
http://www.livescience.com/technology/060131_western_union.html
https://wumt.westernunion.com/info/osTelegram.asp
:) Funny, I didn't realize they were still doing that! I wonder who the last person to send, recieve and hand deliver a telegram was? :)
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That's kind of sad. I would
That's kind of sad. I would have liked to of sent a telegram at one point in my life.
Ken Burns said something pretty interesting a few weeks ago during an interview. He said that it will be very hard for historians fifty or a hundred years from now to do a documentary, research, or write a book about the late 20th and early 21st centuries because most of our writings, reviews, and every day words are put on web pages, forums, blogs, or e-mails. Unless somebody can figure out a way to reach into cyber space and recover old e-mails or blogs from the trillions of deletions then a lot of our history is lost forever.
Internet Wayback Machine
Apparently you and Mr. Burns have missed the boat. Someone has already done part of it.
The Internet Archive project is indexing and archiving as much of the internet, as often as they can. For some reason they missed MaineMilitia.com all of last year. But check out their movie archives for some really interesting stuff that is mostly in public domain now.
http://www.archive.org/
But frankly, what we will end up with is history from the view of what remains. Which is all that history has to offer now. So I'm not sure there will be much difference.
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Michael Johnson
Aint that the truth! history
Aint that the truth!
history is written by the victors.
and the press slants things(as they always did)
thus the old saw remains
what do we really know for sure?
Its like me, everyone takes it for granted that im just this guy, runs a print shop and is into reenacting, was once in the navy reserves and is a pretty good guy.
no one knows my family in the hobby so .......
I could have been in the Cia
witness protection program
sleeper agent for the kgb...
unless you do some reaserch and even then you still have to wonder...
Seamus
"it is a tale told by an idiot, full of sound and fury, signifing......nothing"
MacBeth