POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.off-topic : Good old technology dies hard : Re: Good old technology dies hard Server Time
7 Sep 2024 07:23:25 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Good old technology dies hard  
From: Warp
Date: 9 Jul 2008 14:37:38
Message: <48750572@news.povray.org>
Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:
> On Wed, 09 Jul 2008 14:17:35 -0400, Warp wrote:

> > - the telegram service in the US was discontinued on January 2006.

> That's not entirely correct.  Western Union discontinued their telegram 
> service in January of 2006, but there are other companies that still have 
> it - iTelegram and Globegram offer telegraph service in the US and Canada.

  So it seems the telegram technology is more persistent than I thought. :)

> WU's primary income, as I understand it, comes 
> from processing money transfer and money orders.

  I wonder how many % of those go to Nigeria. ;)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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