The Indians called it "The singing wire".
Posted on 08/20/2021 7:22:27 PM PDT by Ken Regis
It’s an encrypted digital messsage sent between an embassy and it’s home country. Whatever the form (internet, text, fax) the term cable is used to distinguish from day to day communications that do not require high security. Most often the encryption is done via a one-time pad where the key materials are hand carried in sealed diplomatic pouches by couriers.
In other words you can be sure that Hillary sent yoga routines and wedding plans via cable.
What’s a “resident”?
It means that he is pirating your Netflix.
Not sure I understand the question.. telegrams were sent over a wire..AKA a cable.. really refers to the first tran Atlantic undersea cable
It’s a Kabul.
I’m so old I remember using teletypes. Precursor to Compuserve and texting and email.
Similar to some people who continue to call refrigerators an “ice box” I would imagine.
Yes, I recall ripping national news and weather forecasts off the teletype at the radio station I worked for.
Same here.
Someone who occupies a space, but doesn’t necessarily belong there. Like that guy wandering around the White House.
Hopefully this will answer your question. 🙂
A sign of changing times—in the original movie Hairspray, which took place in 1962, Baltimore’s Corny Collins Show (a TV rock n roll dance party) would have viewers send in telegrams voting on songs or dancers...now it would be texts or emails or something.
There’s an app called Telegram for people of certain interests to talk, share stuff.
Worcester (MA) Telegram newspaper. The word basically
means far away message.
Telegraphy:
“Railway signal telegraphy was developed in Britain from the 1840s onward. It was used to manage railway traffic and to prevent accidents as part of the railway signalling system. On 12 June 1837 Cooke and Wheatstone were awarded a patent for an electric telegraph.”—Wikipedia
“Telegraph cables, how they sing down the highway
And travel each bend in the road”—Moonlight In Vermont
Wiki: “”Western Union” is a 1967 song by the American rock band the Five Americans. The single peaked at number 5 on the Billboard Hot 100 in April 1967....Norman Ezell, guitarist for the group, explained how they came up with “Western Union.” “Mike Rabon, our lead guitar player, was just fooling around with his guitar when he came up with a unique sound,” Norman said. “It sort of reminded us of a telegraph key. That’s when we decided to write ‘Western Union.’”
The Indians called it "The singing wire".
Now it's probably more State Department jargon for other electronic forms communications from abroad.
"Diplomatic cable" is a familiar expression from early 20th century history that didn't go away when the medium of communication changed.
Maybe in the heyday of diplomatic cables they were still being called "dispatches," even though no horse and rider was "dispatched" to deliver them.
Some old terms—
“A picture”— meaning moving picture or what we’d call a movie or film now.
“I hope people enjoy my new picture”
Flash or news flash—now it’s bulletin or
breaking news though some say “news flash” for sarcasm. “From Dallas, the flash, apparently official, President Kennedy died today...”—Cronkite
“Television”—most people today say just
TV but decades ago the whole word was
more frequently used
The company I worked for was so cheap we had to schedule times that we wanted to use long distance telephone (the WATS Line) or the teletype. The teletype was usually used to send messages to the home office to ask for information or permission to do something.
Ask someone younger, “What’s a WATS line?
Young people might not be impressed with the concept of a WATS line. They would see it as flat-rate long distance, something they take for granted.
Sometimes when talking to young people I have a spiel about shipping costs that I say would never work. “It would use much less energy, but it would never go because it would involve laying steel rails between all the major locations. Can you imagine the cost?”
Just think what communication would be like if we had copper wire strung between every house and business in the land. Remember when you could send text messages but you had to pay by the letter and no abbreviations were allowed? Ask a young person when that started.
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