Morse Code Enters The 21st Century

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Morse Code Enters The 21st Century

Posted by simoniker on Thursday February 19, 2004 @12:03AM from the twiki-twiki dept.

N8TWJ writes "The International Telecommunications Union has decided to bring Morse Code into the 21st century by adding the loved (or hated?) - at (@) symbol. Lets hope the spammers don't start sniffing 20 meters for da-dit-da-dit-dah-dit..." According to the article, Paul Rinaldo, chief technical officer for the American Radio Relay League, says: "It's a pretty big deal... there certainly hasn't been any change [in Morse Code characters] since before World War II."

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Excellent! Good-bye computer and monitor! by ScottGant · 2004-02-19 00:14 · Score: 4, Funny

Now I can just plug my relay right into my ISP and just surf the web and get email through Morse code!

Playing ut2003 will be a pain though. Hopefully ut2004 will have a "Morse" input option.

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1. Re:Excellent! Good-bye computer and monitor! by kfg · 2004-02-19 00:20 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  . . .get email through Morse code!
  
  It'll probably end up as an emacs mode.
  
  KFG
2. Re:Excellent! Good-bye computer and monitor! by kfg · 2004-02-19 00:40 · Score: 5, Funny
  
  Of course. That'll learn me to try to make an emacs joke.
  
  KFG
Sorry, it has to be done by JamesD_UK · 2004-02-19 00:16 · Score: 5, Funny

I was going to 'First Post!' in morse but the lameness filter won't let me. Dang now I'll just get modded to hell and back.
The @ is good but.... by Gnascher · 2004-02-19 00:17 · Score: 5, Funny

Morse will truly have arrived in the 20th century when you can :) ;) and :)~ -G

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New Morse Code Messages by Channard · 2004-02-19 00:21 · Score: 5, Funny

Well, given how illiterate today's generations of texters and emailers are becoming we can presumably look forward to ship bound soses such as ... 'OMG! U sUnK mY BatT13sH1p U Camp1ng fAg! Plz snd he1p! GG'
Morse Code enters the 21st Century by Hodge · 2004-02-19 00:22 · Score: 4, Funny

Bugger - I was going to reply purely in Morse but the damned /. filter reckoned it was a lame posting. Clearly, eben without the Morse it still is!
Great news for all fans of morse code. This now means that when we send an SOS we can supply an email address to let us know help is on its way!
...-....-.
Lets see spammers use this! by NecroDeemer · 2004-02-19 00:24 · Score: 5, Funny

Just picture the scene, its the middle of a major terrorist attack, the control centres can only communicate via morse code, and suddenly...

Reading from piece of paper "Get The Cheapest Viagra now!"Oh dear, spam hit an all time low.
Look for SMTP-over-MORSE RFC soon :)) by mmu_man · 2004-02-19 00:26 · Score: 3, Funny

Even more robust than UUCP !
Morse Code gets here by Larry+David · 2004-02-19 00:29 · Score: 3, Funny

The International Telecommunications Union has decided to bring Morse Code into the 21st century

All those morse code operators who have been unable to find it in this century can now breathe a sigh of relief! Morse code has made it to the 21st century, just four years late.
Re:Morse?! by dubbayu_d_40 · 2004-02-19 00:33 · Score: 3, Funny

I recently saw it used in a movie...
Currency codes by LarsWestergren · 2004-02-19 00:35 · Score: 3, Funny

I demand those insensitive clods make a new Euro code. It is vital now that I communicate with my stock broker by rapping morse code with my mug on the prison bars. Oh, and they had better reserve a code for the upcoming "Afro" currency too. Ta.

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Morse over Morse by Graspee_Leemoor · 2004-02-19 00:48 · Score: 4, Funny

Since there is a hypen and a period in Morse, you can send Morse Code over Morse Code.

You know, er, just to be stupid or something.

graspee
Re:Cool, but not essential by Saint+Stephen · 2004-02-19 00:51 · Score: 3, Funny

They say that every computer program attempts to grow until it can read mail.

I guess that's going to be true for technologies too! Or your refrigerator...
How long... by kerry-buckley · 2004-02-19 01:02 · Score: 5, Funny

...before the server gets dash-dotted?
Nothin' but jokes by eclectro · 2004-02-19 01:04 · Score: 4, Funny

from all you whippersnappers. You don't know nuthin'

We were talking across the world and making friends with strangers before Al Gore was a twinkle in his father's eye, and we were doing it for free. Not only did we invent 133t speak, we but we refined it .

We had to deal with inteference from the neighbor's electronic organ, changing band conditions, sloppy handkeying, line interference, nests on the antennas, having to make our own equipment, the massive russian woodpeckers equipment problems that we had to fix ourselves, and having to log our operations.

And we were grateful

NA7E

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Re:Cool, but VERY essential! by CdnYoda · 2004-02-19 01:20 · Score: 3, Funny

Of course, interesting it is!

Morse code - binary, it is! ;-)

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Re:wrong spelling.... by Our+Man+In+Redmond · 2004-02-19 01:20 · Score: 5, Funny

Oh great, the first new Morse symbol in almost 100 years and it turns out to be short for "Anonymous Coward."

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Oh my... by MattRog · 2004-02-19 01:24 · Score: 5, Funny

The first thing I thought of was that they were going to start sending XML down the line.

Imagine that horror:
<message sender="Titanic">
<word>
<char>dot</char>
<char>dot</char>
<char>dot</char>
<char>space</char>
<char>dash</char>
<char>dash</char>
<char>dash</char>
<char>space</char>
<char>dot</char>
<char>dot</char>
<char>dot</char>
</word>
</message>

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Thanks,
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Matt
Re:Doesn't this point out a problem in Cryptonomic by WWWWolf · 2004-02-19 01:34 · Score: 3, Funny

However, looking at the Morse chart he would have a problem writing code and reading mathematical notations with the limitations of the Morse alphabet.
Knowing how easily the morse guys use abbreviations for everything, he probably coded in Forth... =)
Anybody remember this one? by coulbc · 2004-02-19 01:46 · Score: 4, Funny

3 dots, 4 dots, 2 dots, dah
Radio, Radio RAH, RAH,RAH
Just the beginning. by rabs · 2004-02-19 03:29 · Score: 3, Funny

Breaking news from www.telegraph.co.uk:

World Wide Morse Conference in Oxford

By Harold Banfry in Oxford
Filed 19 February 2004

World Wide Morse Consortium begins a week-long meeting today in Oxford. The distinguished but beleagurered coterie of academics from around the world will discuss the apparently dim future of Morse, its public perception, and paths for its future.

One of the most exciting developments planned for Spring 2005 is the roll-out of Morse Unicode, to accommodate the requirements of the international developer community. Each dot ("dit") or dash ("dah") in the previous scheme will be replaced with four dots or dashes.

"This enhancement is long overdue," says Dr. Davit Dannaugh. "Now we can represent any letter uniquely in any language. With the increasing availability of dedicated broadband Morse lines, there will be no practical impediments."

Also in the limelight for the Oxford meeting are Morse cryptography, Morse security, and Voice over Morse.

- rabs
web addresses by sleepypants · 2004-02-19 03:58 · Score: 3, Funny

I need a tilde, damnit! My unix-hosted web page address has a tilde! There go my hopes of reaching new audiences via morse...

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Exclamation Point by ScottSpeaks! · 2004-02-19 04:25 · Score: 3, Funny

At least there's still no code for "!", which should discourage most Morse spam.
As a distant relative of Samuel F.B. Morse... by dbirchall · 2004-02-19 04:28 · Score: 4, Funny

(11th cousin 5 times removed or some such; our shared ancestor Anthony Morse lived 1606-1686) I suspect he's spinning in his grave, but I can't be sure, so I'll spin on my desk chair a few times for good measure.

Okay, now I'm all dizzy.