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[DollyLamma]

After 133 years, the curtain came down on the telegraph service yesterday in a ceremony which saw several thousand people bid it farewell.

''The last chapter of 133 years of the Thai telegraph will be in the memory of Thais forever,'' was the last message sent by telegraph, by Information and Communications Technology Minister Mun Patanotai from the General Post Office. It was sent to 40,000 people who had reserved a final telegram, according to the Thai News Agency.

On the final day parents, teenagers, the elderly and first-time users packed the headquarters of Thailand Post Plc in Bang Rak district, waiting for hours to send final telegrams to friends, family and loved ones, and to buy souvenirs. The number of telegrams sent across the country in the final week of the service, which began 133 years ago with a morse key and ended with the teleprinter, rose to 50,000 _ the total usually sent in six months."

http://www.bangkokpost.com/News/01May2008_news02.php