ALTHOUGH the world's final telegram will be sent on Sunday, July 14, anyone looking to make history should book their message by 7pm on Friday, July 12.
The final message will come nearly 160 years after Samuel Morse sent the first telegram in America in 1844.
That first message was "What hath God wrought", and it was sent in Morse Code over an experimental line from Washington to Baltimore.
The message was taken from the Bible, and quoted Numbers 23:23.
The first telegraph service opened in the UK a year later and by 1913, a total of 82 million telegrams were sent each year.
As technology advanced, new ways of communication were developed.
By the 1960s, the number had dropped to 10 million, and in 1976, only 844 telegrams were delivered in the UK.
BT announced in 1981 that the telegram would be discontinued.
The final telegram message sent in the UK was sent in September 1982.
But despite its impending worldwide demise, the spirit of the telegram lives on in the 21st century.
Twitter – one of the world's most popular social networking website – uses the same sort of principles as telegram.
Users' "tweets" are confined to just 140 characters, meaning that, as with a telegram, senders have to master saying as much as possible in the fewest number of words.