Belgium ends 19th-Century telegram service
Found on BBC News on Tuesday, 19 December 2017
One hundred and seventy-one years after the first electrical message was transmitted down a line running alongside the railway between Brussels and Antwerp the final dispatch will be sent and received on 29 December.
So the world won't really change when Belgium finally pulls the plug on its telegram system, but it is another milestone in the long, slow death of a method of communication that once changed the world and which, in its glory days 100 years ago, seemed as though it would never stop.
Today's replacements can consider them really lucky if they are still known in one or two decades. Client software will be gone, and so will be the history of your conversations. Not that most of it will be just embarrassing decades later and not important at best.