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The Coca-Cola Company is the biggest single supplier of such drinks. Globally, the company supplies 3 percent of humanity's total liquid intake.

A particularly important use of codes a was by banks. Worries about the security of telegraphic money transfers

Anyone who started a quarrel had to atone for it by buying a dish of coffee for everyone present.

Civilization - a word that simply means "living in cities ... "
Excerpt From: Standage, Tom. "A History of the World In 6 Glasses.

He proposed a steam-powered pneumatic tube system to carry telegraph forms the short distance from the Stock Exchange to the main telegraph office.

People enjoy being able to articulate their interests and define themselves by selectively compiling and resharing content created by others

Image of a Roman wax tablet, which looks very like an iPad.

The mere act of sharing something can, in other words, be a form of self-expression.

The exchange of consent being given by the electric flash, they were thus married by telegraph.

Literacy was power.

It is a sign of a medium's immaturity when one of the main topics of discussion is the medium itself.

Most of the stories in the Boston News-Letter were simply copied from the London papers.

The mouth of a perfectly contented man is filled with beer. - Egyptian proverb, c. 2200 BCE