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This is a list of telegram services by country. Algérie Poste offers electronic telegram services under the name Barki@tic. Correo Argentino still offers telegram service within Argentina and to international destinations. Post Aruba still offers telegram service. Australia Post closed its telegram service on 7 March 2011.
Telegram services still operate in much of the world (see worldwide use of telegrams by country), but e-mail and text messaging have rendered telegrams obsolete in many countries, and the number of telegrams sent annually has been declining rapidly since the 1980s.
The New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company was founded in Rochester, New York by Samuel L. Selden, Hiram Sibley, and others in 1851. In 1856 the company merged with its competitor the Erie and Michigan Telegraph Company, controlled by John James Speed, Francis Ormand Jonathan Smith and Ezra Cornell and, at Cornell's insistence, changed its name to Western Union Telegraph ...
Telegram: Telegram United Arab Emirates: 2013 950 million: 9 LinkedIn: Microsoft United States: 2003 930 million: 700 million registered users: 10 Snapchat: Snap Inc. United States: 2011 800 million: 414 million daily active users: 11 Douyin: ByteDance China: 2016 755 million: 12 Kuaishou: Kuaishou China: 2011 700 million: 13 Weibo
On this day in 1911 the first telegram was sent around the world via a commercial service from the New York Times' office to test how fast a message could travel through a dedicated cable.
The telegraph represented a disruptive innovation in the history of the United States from its invention in the 1830s onward by quickly becoming a vital part of the nation's communication infrastructure. Its relative importance declined with the spread of telephones in the 20th century. Telegraph service permitted short texts to be sent cheaply ...
As of July 2024, Telegram has more than 950 million monthly active users, with India leading in the number of users. It was the most downloaded app worldwide in January 2021 [20] [21] with 1 billion downloads globally as of late August 2021.
Hughes telegraph, an early (1855) teleprinter built by Siemens and Halske. Electrical telegraphy is a point-to-point text messaging system, primarily used from the 1840s until the late 20th century. It was the first electrical telecommunications system and the most widely used of a number of early messaging systems called telegraphs, that were ...