Something from Nothing

[Brian37]

What's Morris code?

Dot dot dot, dash dash dash, dot dot dot..........

It was a very early form of internet even before phones. It was electronic pulses sent by wire to communicate. 

Combos of short pulses and long pulses to symbolize each letter of the alphabet were sent over wire.

The equipment looked like this. 

https://www.google.com/search?biw=1366&b...kIEEpjn-y8

SOS, was a common word sent meaning "Save Our Ship". 

Dot's were shorter pulses, and dashes were longer pulses. But together sent over wire the dots and dashes were arranged to form regular language. A lot like computer code boils down to positive and negative charges or in number representations 0s and 1s.

If you click on the google link the very first image on the top left is the best. A wire was connected to the device, and what you did was tap the round part till it made a connection that sent the pulse through the wire. Hold it down a short period you'd get a short "dot", hold it down longer you'd get a "dash".  Just like 0s and 1s make up computer language.

FUCK, I spelled it wrong, the guy who invented the language is Morse, not Morris. But the programers at google take into bad spellers like me.

Morse Code.

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I just had a thought, if it were not for Morse Code, this ABBA song would not exist.