Before Twitter, there were dits and dahs

For a Night Each Year, the Airwaves Buzz With Morse Code - NYTimes.com

POINT REYES NATIONAL SEASHORE, Calif. — It has been a little more than a decade since the last of the nation’s commercial Morse code radio stations officially went off the air, as new technology sank a system that had been a lingua franca of maritime communication since before the Titanic.

I did a lot of dits and dahs once upon a time. It wasn't my primary job so I never got as good as the very best but I was good enough to handle ship-to-shore. And OMG, telegraph operators talked funny too. QSV.

I imagine they still do. 

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