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Imagine a world without instant global communication. No rapid news from afar, no swift financial transactions across continents, no real-time video calls connecting loved ones. This was the reality for millennia. Then, in the mid-19th century, a revolutionary invention began to quietly knit the world together: the undersea telegraph cable. Before the advent of these … Read more
In the annals of technological progress, some inventions are heralded with fanfare, their impact immediate and obvious. Others, however, work their magic in the silent depths, their significance often overlooked until we realize just how indispensable they are. Such is the case with undersea cables, the hidden circulatory system of our interconnected world. Long before … Read more
In the annals of communication, few technologies commanded the world’s attention quite like the telegraph. For over a century, it was the titan of instant messaging, a marvel that shrunk distances and connected continents. Yet, as the 20th century drew to a close, its reign was definitively ending. On January 25, 1991, AT&T, a company … Read more