Phillips Code News Today

When 88 meant XOXO One hundred years before internet dating was invented, telegraph operators at the Nyack and Piermont train stations fell in love over the “wire”. Marian Belle Byram (known as Belle) and Thomas Kelly both started working as telegraph operators in 1908, Belle at the Piermont train station and Thomas at the Nyack train […]

It has been argued that this compression of words is part of the “dumbing down” of America.