c/videos · by abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 145d

Telegraphy was wild

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cTQLelLpL4

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bitteroldcoot@piefed.social · 5 pts · 145d (1 reply)

the era of the telegraph, was a lot like the early era of texting. each word cost money, so they used commercially available code books.

https://web.archive.org/web/20081231034800/http:/dtc.umn.edu/~reedsj/codebooks.html

abbiistabbii@piefed.blahaj.zone · 1 pts · 144d

I still have a "little book of txtspk" somewhere back in the days when texting was a "craze".

Yes I am old.