By clock on April 27, 2009. Thanks to Google, we know that today is the birthday of the first Twitterer: Tags fun History Media Technology happy birthday WE LOVE YOU The telegraph was so hot. But some people said it would never catch on. And was waste of time. And was ruining the language... Start with tom-toms and smoke signals. Telegraph is a much later version of Twitter. Already requires electricity! Unlike tom-toms and smoke-signals (1-to-many), telegraph is more like e-mail: 1-to-1 unless broadcast by other means at end. Also, both tom-toms and smoke-signals had Retweets, while telegraph did not. -.-- --- ..- -.-. --- ..- .-.. -.. -.-. .- .-.. .-.. - .... . - . .-.. . --. .-. .- .--. .... - .... . ...- .. -.-. - --- .-. .. .- -. .. -. - . .-. -. . - .- ... .-- . .-.. .-.. YOUCOULDCALLTHETELEGRAPHTHEVICTORIANINTERNETASWELL
The telegraph was so hot. But some people said it would never catch on. And was waste of time. And was ruining the language... Start with tom-toms and smoke signals. Telegraph is a much later version of Twitter. Already requires electricity! Unlike tom-toms and smoke-signals (1-to-many), telegraph is more like e-mail: 1-to-1 unless broadcast by other means at end. Also, both tom-toms and smoke-signals had Retweets, while telegraph did not.
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happy birthday WE LOVE YOU
The telegraph was so hot. But some people said it would never catch on. And was waste of time. And was ruining the language...
Start with tom-toms and smoke signals. Telegraph is a much later version of Twitter. Already requires electricity!
Unlike tom-toms and smoke-signals (1-to-many), telegraph is more like e-mail: 1-to-1 unless broadcast by other means at end.
Also, both tom-toms and smoke-signals had Retweets, while telegraph did not.
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