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The Cost of Instant Information Delivery

Tim Cigelske

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Frank E. Webner, Pony Express rider circa 1861. Public domain photo.

The photo of a Pony Express rider above looks like a boy. That’s because he was a boy.

Mythology states that the Old West was run by manly men. It turns out, the communication pipeline in the early 1860s relied on teenagers. The Pony Express was the original DM.

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