{"id":15078,"date":"2019-08-20T23:16:15","date_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-commercial-telegram-sent-around-the-world-4\/"},"modified":"2019-08-20T23:16:15","modified_gmt":"2019-08-20T23:16:15","slug":"first-commercial-telegram-sent-around-the-world-4","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/first-commercial-telegram-sent-around-the-world-4\/","title":{"rendered":"First Commercial Telegram Sent Around the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<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\/2019\/08\/ec1a0__timessq-300x177.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"177\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/timessq-300x177.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/timessq.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/>August 20, 1911<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.insidetheapple.net\/2010\/08\/around-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, &#8220;This message sent around the world&#8221;, 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&#8217;s Eve.<\/p>\n<p><a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\/08\/20\/first-commercial-telegram-sent-around-the-world\/\">First Commercial Telegram Sent Around the World<\/a> is original content of <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/thisdayintechhistory.com\">This Day in Tech History<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/08\/ec1a0__12754856.gif\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><br \/>\n<a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/tracking.feedpress.it\/link\/1823\/12754856\">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, &#8220;This message sent around the world&#8221;, 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":3,"featured_media":0,"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-15078","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","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\/15078"}],"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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15078"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15078\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.techiteens.com\/review\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}