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How messages travel — from the telegraph and print to broadcasting and beyond.
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The @ symbol has wildly different names — many of them animals
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The first text message ever sent read: Merry Christmas
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The first radio signal across the Atlantic was a single letter S
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The first telegraph message asked: What hath God wrought?
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The oldest surviving photograph took hours of sunlight to make
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The first transcontinental phone call is made in the U.S.
1 Jun 1980
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10 Jul 1962
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Telstar, the first communications satellite, launched
30 Aug 1963
18 Sep 1851
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America's first multi-page newspaper lasted one issue
5 Oct 1947
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