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[–] Kelly@lemmy.world 7 points 4 months ago

And the grammaphone was just leapfrogged; the first news radio broadcast was only 7 years after this cartoon

These phone services were the current tech when the strip was printed.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_newspaper