News flash from Florida legislators: Telegraph era is over

guest · Jan 16, 2020

News flash from Florida legislators: Telegraph era is over
January 15, 2020
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Before there was instant messaging, emails and even corded telephones, there was the reliable telegraph to instantaneously transmit messages far and wide. Now, people turn to the internet, text messaging, Twitter, gifs and emojis to write their long-distance notes.

While thumbing through a volume of Florida laws, state Rep. Tommy Gregory and a colleague came upon old statutes regulating the telegraph industry.

“I wondered if they were now obsolete,” said Gregory, a former lieutenant colonel in the Air Force.
Western Union, once a leading telegraph service provider, sent out its last telegram on Jan. 27, 2006.

Gregory considered the statutes useless in today’s era of smartphones and emails, and he moved to rip the laws out of the state’s books.
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Telegram companies were once common.

These days, smartphones have become the go-to communications tool.
The Florida law was adopted more than a century ago and remained mostly unchanged since 1913.
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