-------------------------------------------- On Mon, 22/7/13, Lev Lafayette <lev(a)levlafayette.com> wrote: Subject: Re: [luv-talk] Curtains came down on Sunday on the 163-year-old telegram service in India To: luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au Received: Monday, 22 July, 2013, 10:06 AM On Mon, July 22, 2013 9:11 am, Petros wrote: That's quite a charming story. The final days of the Victorian-era Internet. -- Lev Lafayette, BA (Hons), GCertPM, MBA mobile:  0432 255 208 RFC 1855 Netiquette Guidelines http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1855.txt _______________________________________________ In the unlikely event that Florence Zigfield had lived to see the end of telegrams in the USA, I wonder what he would have used. He used to have a boy waiting near him at all times to take a telegram & there are multiple stories of him sitting in a theatre during rehearsals and communicating with the cast onstage by telegrams. My guess is something like he'd write on his telegram pad & someone would transcribe the contents into an SMS or email.