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Posted by hipstomp | 3 Jun 2008
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Frankfurt-based Lenny Zorn had one of the few truly unique blogs on the internet: it was in Morse code. Sadly, it seems as if he's stopped transmitting, probably because the only people who can still read it are trapped on fishing trawlers with no internet.
Some interesting Morse facts:
- Morse code was invented in 1844 for the telegraph, and was originally designed to transmit only numbers; those numbers would then correspond with words in a dictionary, requiring the operator to look up each word.- Several years ago the Tonight Show held a "race" between a superfast text-messager and a superfast Morse code operator. Guess who won. (Video below.)
- This website claims they can teach you to read Morse code in one minute using your printer.
- Actor David Morse recently portrayed George Washington in HBO's much-maligned "John Adams." (We liked him better as vigilante Mike Olshansky in CBS' "Hack.")
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My grandfather was a comm expert in the English navy in WWII. For his 80th birthday his brother sent him an audio cassette from england as his birthday card, with a message in morse code. My 10 year old self though it was the coolest thing I had ever seen, So I went out and bought a book the next day, and I still know it.