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Why would someone encode words for a weather forecast?

• mkl 3y ago
  As the article explains, it's to save on telegraph fees, which were charged per word.
  • djur 3y ago
    Seems like OP didn't save me a click, then. Dang.
• pmarreck 3y ago
  It was an early form of compression.
• jandrese 3y ago
  Telegraph operators preferred operating on real words, so you had to encode your data into English words to save on transmission costs.