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  • n  someone who transmits messages by telegraph
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  • What Sexting Was Like in the Victorian Era
    Technology has been complicating romance for longer than we thought: Tech blog Collision Detection unearthed a Victorian example in Wired Love: A Romance of Dots and Dashes, a novel about a telegraph operator who falls for a mystery man she meets "on the wire." Mistaken identities and madcap antics ensue. "I hope sometime ... More »        
    July 25, 2013 - New York Magazine

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