On April 27, the world celebrates Morse Code Day and celebrates the birthday of Samuel Morse, the creator of the ingenious ...

In case you’re not a former sailor or ham radio operator, the above is not a typesetting snafu. Those are the dashes and dots (or “dits” and “dahs,” as telegraph operators often vocalize them) that ...

Your guides to the weird side of the web show how Morse code hides secrets and patterns.

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The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 – 175 years ago. It signaled the first time in human ...