{"id":4202,"date":"2006-02-10T18:04:55","date_gmt":"2006-02-10T18:04:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/e-commerce\/internet-precursor-ends.html"},"modified":"2006-02-10T18:04:55","modified_gmt":"2006-02-10T18:04:55","slug":"internet-precursor-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/voip\/internet-precursor-ends.html","title":{"rendered":"Internet Precursor Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"MsoNormal\" style=\"MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt\"><span style=\"FONT-SIZE: 10pt\">The telegraph was the first communications mechanism allowing near instantaneous communication over distance. Much the way e-mail transmits text today the telegraph transformed communications in ways that allowed people to be connected over distance. Samuel Morse wrote the first telegram in 1844 and now, over a century later the last telegram was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.livescience.com\/technology\/060131_western_union.html\">sent<\/a>. Still, by any measure that is serious staying power for a technology and we can only hope VoIP will enjoy such a run.<\/span><\/p>\n<p \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The telegraph was the first communications mechanism allowing near instantaneous communication over distance. Much the way e-mail transmits text today the telegraph transformed communications in ways that allowed people to be connected over distance. Samuel Morse wrote the first telegram in 1844 and now, over a century later the last telegram was sent. Still, by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[191],"tags":[871,872,873,874],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4202"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4202\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4202"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4202"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.tmcnet.com\/blog\/rich-tehrani\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4202"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}