{"id":13887,"date":"2015-08-20T23:16:11","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:16:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-commercial-telegram-sent-around-the-world-3\/"},"modified":"2015-08-20T23:16:11","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T23:16:11","slug":"first-commercial-telegram-sent-around-the-world-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-commercial-telegram-sent-around-the-world-3\/","title":{"rendered":"First Commercial Telegram Sent Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"post-2001\">\n<div class=\"format_text entry-content\">\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2002\" title=\"Times Square\" alt=\"Times Square\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/8863f__timessq-300x177.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" \/>August 20, 1911<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.insidetheapple.net%2F2010%2F08%2Faround-world-in-16-12-minutes.html\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times sends a telegram message to test how fast a commercial message could be sent around the world<\/a>. Reading simply, \u201cThis message sent around the world\u201d, it left\u00a0at 7 PM, traveled over 28,000 miles and was relayed by 16 different operators. It arrived back at The Times only 16.5 minutes later. The building where the message originated is now called One Times Square and is best known for where the ball drops on New Year\u2019s Eve.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"previous\">Previous post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F08%2F19%2Fgoogles-ipo%2F\" rel=\"prev\">Google\u2019s IPO<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Next post: <a href=\"http:\/\/redirect.viglink.com?key=11fe087258b6fc0532a5ccfc924805c0&#038;u=http%3A%2F%2Fthisdayintechhistory.com%2F08%2F21%2Fmars-observer-lost%2F\" rel=\"next\">Mars Observer Lost<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/95ca0__p-89EKCgBk8MZdE.gif\" border=\"0\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" \/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/20\/first-commercial-telegram-sent-around-the-world\/\">This Day in Tech History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tech History provided by This Day in Tech History.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>August 20, 1911 The New York Times sends a telegram message to test how fast a commercial message could be sent around the world. Reading simply, \u201cThis message sent around the world\u201d, it left\u00a0at 7 PM, traveled over 28,000 miles and was relayed by 16 different operators. It arrived back at The Times only 16.5 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":13888,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kadence_starter_templates_imported_post":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[194],"tags":[1703,1701,399,1612,1702,198],"class_list":["post-13887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-today-in-tech","tag-around","tag-commercial","tag-first","tag-sent","tag-telegram","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13887\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}