Instant Messaging in Another Day and Time
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Written By Reprise Media | November 29, 2005 | Share This
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Dress the World Wide Web in a frock coat with a crinoline collar and you’ll have this crazy interesting article from the BBC called Wiring Up The Victorian Internet.
Columnist Martin Redfern takes an in-depth look at the earliest predessor to the Internet as we know it today - the telegraph.
An excerpt:
“It could cost several pounds to send a message and it might take several hours for it to reach its destination on the other side of the globe, but the world would never be same again. Governments could be in touch with their colonies. Traders could send cargoes based on demand and the latest prices. Newspapers could publish news that had just happened and was not many months old. And individuals could, for the first time, exchange almost instant messages with their friends and family on different continents.”
I remember my dad trying to teach me Morse code as a kid. The only thing I ever learned was SOS and it’s always a good one to have handy in the back of your brain. Learn it and other Morse code staples here.
By the way, did you know that SOS wasn’t always the standard signal for distress? It used to be “CQD” - Wikipedia has the backstory.
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