Teletype machines clicked, bells rang in schools and radios crackled with reports that a tornado was ripping into the Lehigh Valley. But as they say on the radio, it was only a test. The flurry of ...

How do you get the kids interested in old technology? By connecting it to a phone, obviously. Those kids and their phones. When [Marek] got his hands on an old-school teletype, he hooked it up to a ...

It was exciting to read Twitter when it first began sharing breaking news in 2006. In the early part of the 20th century, newsrooms must have felt the same excitement as the first (and often loud) ...

Ten bells, and not seven trumpets, announced the apocalypse on February 20, 1971. It was 10:33AM, and teletypes in every single radio and TV station across the country rang those bells to announce an ...

How do you get the kids interested in old technology? By connecting it to a phone, obviously. Those kids and their phones. When [Marek] got his hands on an old-school teletype, he hooked it up to a ...

This just in! Breaking news arrives in many ways in the 21 st century. Early newsrooms I worked in had noisy wire service teletype machines that would spit out rolls and rolls of arriving news and ...

Mostly, I remember the bells. In mid-afternoon, usually on Wednesdays as I recall, the bells on the teletype machines in the wire room off The Florida Times-Union's city room would start ringing. The ...