The electronic telegraph (the inital lowercase was a marketing device) was the UK and Europe's first daily web-based newspaper. Launched at midday on 15 November 1994 at the headquarters of The Daily Telegraph, Canary Wharf in London's Docklands.
The website, hosted on a Sun Microsystems Sparc 20 server, and connected via a 64k leased line from Demon Internet, was edited by Ben Rooney. Key personnel behind the launch of the site were the then marketing manager of The Daily Telegraph, Hugo Drayton, and the webmaster Fiona Carter. Drayton later became managing director of the newspaper. The site was later re-named telegraph.co.uk
Originally known as the New York and Mississippi Valley Printing Telegraph Company, Western Union (as it was renamed in 1856 after a series of acquisitions) built the nation's first transcontinental...
In 1837 he was granted a patent on an electromagnetic telegraph that transmitted signals along...
From its foundation in 1851 as a company formed to build a telegraph line from Buffalo, N.Y., to St. Louis, Mo., in 1856 the expanding business was reorganized as the Western Union Telegraph Co. By the end...
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