[ WP ] A person brings a teleporter to the past and starts a super quick messaging service . Write about how an event in history would be changed by this .

`` After the victory Pheidippides sent an TeleDispatch to Athens, announcing the victory and alerting the city to the oncoming Persian fleet, which, when it found the Athenians at a high state of readiness, withdrew, sealing the Greek victory'' ^1 
 
 `` I'm sorry, professor, where did you say the battle was?'' 
 
 `` Marathon.'' 
 
 `` Never heard of it.'' 
 
 `` Do n't feel bad. Most people have n't.'' 
 
 
 1. Not really. Herodotus says than a runner went from Sparta to Athens overnight ( 140 miles! ) to get assistance BEFORE the battle and that the Athenian army hightailed it 25 miles from Marathon to Athens to intercept the Persian fleet but the popular myth of Pheidippides' run to Athens complete with him dying of exhaustion as he shouts `` We were victorious!'' is pretty persistent.
