Telegrams

Nowadays we have more ways to communicate than ever. Apart from good old fashion vocal cords, e-mails are the most common form of communication with 74 trillion sent every single year. That's 202 billion per day, 2 million per second, and all of them somehow end up in your mailbox. Next to email, you have Whatsapp, with 36 trillion WhatsApp messages per year. Then you've got 14 trillion Wechat messages, 7 trillion texts, 200 billion tweets, 109 billion Zoom calls, about 5 Yahoo Messenger calls, and somehow, 17 million telegrams. Yes, you heard me right. The world still sends millions of telegrams every single year. There is a few questions like who, what, when, where, why, and how. Four of those are pretty easy to answer. Telegrams. Telegrams. The world and Now. But the remaining two, who and why, are a little more complicated. To explain why such an old and outdated technology has managed to stick around while so many others like pagers, dial-up modems in the iPhone 12 have all that disappeared. You need to understand just how influential and widespread telegraph system really work. You see, when telegrams became publicly available, they were a big deal.