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Did the electric telegraph actual encrypt anything? I thought they were just encoded to Morse code and there was no encryption.
by highwind 4y ago
Did the electric telegraph actual encrypt anything? I thought they were just encoded to Morse code and there was no encryption.
- jonsen 4y agoI think the author is just trying to be smart using 'encrypting' instead of 'encoding'.
- thanato0s 4y agoI didn't try to be smart, I just got super confused what verb to use for telegrams (weirdly enough, to me "encoding" was only used in the context of computer... which is wrong; I tried to use "codify" also, but I'm pretty sure it's also wrong... from there the confusion spread in the whole article). I'm not a native speaker. It doesn't excuse my mistake though.