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In the 1850s, painter-turned-inventor Samuel Morse sent out the first telegram in Washington, US.
The telegram was once considered a form of authoritative communication, but as technology has progressed, its days are now numbered.
After over 160 years since the telegraph was first invented, India-based telecommunications company Bharat Sanchar Nigam Limited (BSNL) will be sending out the world’s last telegram on 14 July 2013, to somewhere in India.
As one of the last 75 offices that still offer telegraph services, BSNL will be shutting down the service as it’s “no longer commercially viable”, according to Business Insider.
“We were incurring losses of over US$23 million a year because SMS and smartphones have rendered this service redundant,” BSNL’s telegraph services general manager, Shamim Akhtar, told CSMonitor.com.
The old school form of communication will be dearly missed.
[via Business Insider, image via MANJUNATH KIRAN/Stringer/AFP/Getty Images]