{Old Newspaper Clippings} Telegraph communications
By AmberLynn
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
United States
May 27, 2020 4:09pm CST
This was taken from The Abbeville press and banner (Abbeville, S.C.), November 19, 1869
I only clipped part of this, the part that stood out the most to me. However, the article is explaining a new cable line going from Belgium to "yet to be determined - but somewhere in America."
Oh how far we've come!
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@LindaOHio (222412)
• United States
28 May 20
I wonder how the people would feel about our present means of communication!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 May 20
It would probably boggle their mind! Being able to compose a message to someone halfway across the world and get a reply within seconds!
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 May 20
@LindaOHio I agree. It helps us to cultivate relationships with people from all around the world, and it helps shorten the cultural divide.
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@changjiangzhibin89 (17239)
• China
28 May 20
It is a precious newspaper clipping ! What great strides the world has made !
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 May 20
Very true. I love looking at these older papers.
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@snowy22315 (208919)
• United States
27 May 20
Oh yes, and history will look at this time at least the last 50 years as part of the technological revolution.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 May 20
I am sure you are right. It makes me think about a few years ago when (I think maybe last year) when a capsule that was placed at a shopping center fifty years ago uncovered.
@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 May 20
I saw something a couple of weeks ago about what Italians in 1920 thought 2020 would look like. From what I can remember of the illustration, there were lots of marquee boards in the picture, and the people were in these sort of bubbles that I believe were meant to be cars.
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@ScribbledAdNauseum (104615)
• United States
28 May 20
@RubyHawk I am sure. I like to think it will be somewhat between what The Jetsons imagined the future to be, and what Back To The Future II thought it would be.
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@RubyHawk (99367)
• Atlanta, Georgia
28 May 20
@ScribbledAdNauseum i can't imagine what life will be like in a hundred years. Totally something we would never dream of I'm sure.
