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Re:A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old by jbjbjbjb on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @05:52PM (#25282846)
British Telecom’s origins date back to the founding in 1846 of the Electric Telegraph Company. ETC was the first public telegraph company.
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Re:A Japanese shop is 1,020 years old by Turing_Machine on Wednesday December 02, 2020 @06:21PM (#25283158)
That's got Western Union beat by a few years. WU was founded in 1851.

On the other hand, Western Union is still trading under its original name.

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