“Oh, stop it—you’re making me blush,” the throaty voice said, laughing off a compliment. Barret Zoph, who’d given the compliment, looked pleased. As he should—Zoph represents OpenAI, the company ...

While we all brag about how fast social media travels, it wasn’t long ago when the fastest communication were wires strewn across the county. There were attempts as early as 1826 to create the ...

Those who traveled by train or steamship out of Stillwater in the first half of the 20th century likely bought their tickets from Joseph “Papa Joe” Carroll. Carroll, who worked at the Stillwater Union ...

CHARLOTTESVILLE For more than a century, lives and the world were affected by messages sent and received via a series of formalized “dits” and “dahs” known as Morse code. The tones are created by a ...

HAMPTON -- The year was 1951, and James Forrest was starting his career with the Rock Island Lines as a telegraph operator. Mixed in with the sounds of people moving in and out of the station buying ...

ZHEJIANG, East China — To reach one of China’s last telegraph stations, Thomas Yang spent 18 hours crossing three provinces on one slow train. Just to send a message that would travel even slower.

FOR ME, SHE. WHEN WAS THE LAST TIME YOU SENT A TELEGRAM? I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS YOUNG, LIVING IN WAY. MY MOTHER WOULD WIRE ME MONEY FROM HOME IN NEW YORK CITY. THERE WERE A COUPLE DOZEN WESTERN UNION ...