Morse Code and Google Celebration of Samuel Morse’s Birthday
The Samuel Morse Code and Google Celebration of Samuel Morse’s Birthday was seen today on the Google homepage. Google has started celebrating different seasons and occasions starting last year when they changed their favicon. Well, that’s when I have observed this change in Google. Now, when I typed www.google.com in my browser this morning, I was a bit surprised knowing that Samuel Morse’s Birthday is being celebrated by Google. This could be a recurring event or maybe next time, the Big G will feature another great man’s birthday.
The Code Originally invented by Samuel Morse
Samuel Morse is the original inventor of the Morse Code – that which most of us know as “dit dit dah dah dah”. The Morse code is a form of language. Every letter in the English alphabet is represented by a series of dots and dashes. This form of communication is extremely useful in encoded messages because not too many can understand it. It was also used as the early of telegraph. Today’s wireless communication and internet technology still rely on Morse Code. Even modems communicate using the Morse code. You can’t pretty much connect to the internet if your modem is unable to send and receive signals in Morse code. This principle also holds true for other media of communication like cellular phones and telephones.
As our only way to join in the celebration of Samuel Morse’s birthday, we are posting here a photo of the Morse Code (revised international version). If you want to study the code, then refer to the image shown below.
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I tried to e-mail google, ended up sending it to their press room. But hasn’t anyone else noticed that the morse code characters on their home page does NOT spell google? Is there some morse code protocol of which I’m unaware?
Actually, the code which Morse originally devised for telegraphy, now called American Morse, fell out of favor about 1900 with the rise of wireless communications and a new code, called International Morse, which is what Amateur (Ham) Radio operators use (but not exclusively).
I would like to differ with the article: modems do not use Morse code. They use codes originally devised for teletype communications with names like Baudot and ASCII (American Standard Code for Information Interchange).
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