On Sat, May 12, 2012 at 1:08 AM, Joly MacFie <joly at punkcast.com> wrote: [...] > Weren't electric text communications popularly known as "cables" in the > early 20th C? As I understand it, governments still refer to "cables" for certain classes of inter-governmental communications. I doubt they still use telex networks, though. Regards, Leo