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To: tophat9000

“di/dot or 1/0 is all binary”

Yep, when you think about it our internet communcations are using something very much like morse code.


30 posted on 04/01/2012 3:36:02 PM PDT by Okieshooter
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To: Okieshooter

Morse Code is relatively efficient, the most common letters have the shortest codes. But Morse differs from modern binary communications in that dit and daaah have different length (take more energy per signal). Modern codes use just as much energy to transmit a “1” as a “0”. Still, Morse Code (misnomer) still uses “dit” more frequently than “daaah” for just that reason, “E” (”.”) is shorter than “T”, (”-”).


34 posted on 04/01/2012 3:57:16 PM PDT by Lonesome in Massachussets ("Jihad" is Arabic for "Helter-Skelter", "bin Laden" is Arabic for "Manson".)
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To: Okieshooter
“di/dot or 1/0 is all binary” Yep, when you think about it our internet communcations are using something very much like morse code.

Actually it is a direct descendant ...Morse code evolved in to 5 bit teletype code...teletype code evolved in to 7 bit ASCII and 8 bit EBCDIC ...

Bottom line the first "two state"/binary electronic encoding for transmission/transport of data was Morse

And the Internet is just that a data transmission/transport system...

PC's process data ...the Internet is mass hi-speed transports of data for PC's to have something to process

43 posted on 04/01/2012 4:25:06 PM PDT by tophat9000 (American is Barack Oaken)
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