The Mystery of Why 30 is at the Bottom of Press Release

Why is 30 at bottom of press release? The number 30 was used as the shorthand for “”end”” or “”no more”” in Western Union’s “”92 Code,”” produced in 1859. This set of guidelines was meant to reduce bandwidth over increasingly busy telegraph lines. In addition to using “”30″” for “”the end,”” a telegraph operator could … Read more