Consumer's World: Cell Phones

READ THE RULES! As a society, we often move on from one technology to another when something better and greater comes along. Before cellphones there were land-line telephones, and before land-line telephones there were telegraphs - the apparatus used to send messages from Point A to Point B via electrical signal as a series of dots and dashes that would be interpreted by a trained user. And even though telegraphs faded away from use more than a century ago, you can still find their equipment around if you look.