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Reminds me of stories of how, when the telegraph was common, people purchased code books in order to compress their messages. Not for security, necessarily, as
by jhbadger 9y ago
Reminds me of stories of how, when the telegraph was common, people purchased code books in order to compress their messages. Not for security, necessarily, as many of the codes were public knowledge, but in order to save money as one code word could replace a whole common sentence. The telegraph companies eventually banned codes for that reason.
- teekert 9y agoAnd just as with SMS the greediness of the telegraph companies probably only sped up development of alternatives.
- dspillett 9y ago> The telegraph companies eventually banned codes for that reason. And as with today's spin machines, some claimed that the ban was to help their customers by reducing the likelihood of code related errors (mainly the effect of transcription errors when writing or reading back the telegram) causing significant communication errors. The past is not as alien a country as we sometimes think!
- ada1981 9y agoThe equivalent of LOL or LMAO.