Cablegram

Terminology

Initially, telegrams were sent by an electrical telegraph operator or telegrapher using Morse code, or a printing telegraph operator using plain text. A cablegram was a message sent by a submarine telegraph cable, often shortened to "cable" or "wire". The suffix -gram is derived from ancient Greek: γραμμα (gramma), meaning something written, i.e. telegram means something written at a distance and cablegram means something written via a cable, whereas telegraph implies the process of writing at a distance.