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In the late 20th and early 21st centuries, new technologies of communication—especially networked computers and fiber optic cables (which carried light rather than electricity)—marked the end of diplomacy by telegraph. Yet, the telegraph deserves to be remembered as the technology that brought diplomacy into the high-speed age of electricity.
[[Category:US State Department]] [[Category:Wikis]][[Category:United States History]] [[Category:19th Century History]] [[Category:Political History]] [[Category:Diplomatic History]]{{MediaWiki:AmNative}}* Republished from [https://history.state.gov/| Office of the Historian, United States Department of State]*Article: [https://history.state.gov/milestones/1866-1898/telegraph U.S. Diplomacy and the Telegraph, 1866]
