Change is the law of nature!! Ever since the evolution of life,
change is the only thing which has been constant.
It’s not been too long that telegram service was one of the most
prolific and easiest means of communication for long distance. Though many of
us may not have the luck to experience it at first hand, but I am sure, we all
would have heard our parents or grandparents talking about it at some point of
time.
I remember the days when we used to make trunk calls. Our generation
have seen the days when people took pride in telephones and latter, on mobile
phones, but this pride has lasted for quite a short time. In no time,
say in a span of 5 years, mobile phones has spread so widely, that it has become
the easiest and the most common means of communication we have around us today.
From rich to middle class and poor, it’s being used like never before.
Today, the hundreds of year old telegram service is going to
say goodbye to all of us. Though it’s going to disappear in the pages of
history from few hours from now, I wonder if anyone is ever going to miss it. We
already have a developed telegram system in the form of telephones, mobile
phones and Internet. I would rather say the telegram system has already been
transformed long before into more effective means of communication and this end
is something which could have been avoided.
All what this makes me and millions of other people, is what
we say “nostalgic” and that for something which has not disappeared completely
from us. We still have it but in a different form. It is not more than a technological
change and I believe it should have been long before absorbed by the
telecommunication companies just in the form of transformation that would not
lead to another nostalgic day in the history of communication system.
There are hundreds of products and services which has
transformed over a span of time in the name of advancement and had everything had
an end like this, it would be of no significance, except for ending up adding yet
another day in the history syllabus for our younger generations.
