[GreenKeys] How does this strike you?

[jhhaynes at earthlink.net]

The telegraph industry in the U.S. had 40 years to develop before the
telephone appeared on the scene.  It was another 40 years before the
telephone could be used across the width of the continent.  It was
another 40 years before long-distance telephony became generally cost-
competitive with telegraphy, and before there was a trans-Atlantic
telephone cable.  And it was another 40 years before there was such
a glut of bandwidth internationally that we can make telephone calls
and send electronic mail without thinking of the expense.

(These are "biblical" 40 year periods, meaning the interval is more
poetic than precise.)


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