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[highlyeccentric]

The First Text Messages: on how telegraph operators made friends, learnt to recognise one another by Morse style, made jokes, and abbreviated words.

Comments

[be_themoon]

that is AWESOME.

[gominokouhai]

I remember reading about the wireless operators on the Titanic. They'd address each other as old man, abbreviated OM. I thought this was brilliant---so English!---and adopted it online for a while.