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A site about... everything. I think I got here via the comprehensive section on railway signalling, then got sucked into the tutorial on ancient Greek and the history of the telegraph.
to greek history latin linguistics maths physics railways science telegraph ... on 18 January 2015
History of the Atlantic Cable & Submarine Telegraphy
"History of the Atlantic Cable & Undersea Communications from the first submarine cable of 1850 to the worldwide fiber optic network."
to atlantic cable history retrotech telecoms telegraph telephone ... on 27 July 2014
Not only was "u" for "you" common telegraphic practice, there was actually a widely-adopted standard for these kinds of abbreviations. (Reading between the lines in documentation about the Titanic's last radio signals, you can see that all the messages we're used to seeing written out in perfect longhand English were actually sent as what today looks like SMS-speak...)
telegraphic codes and message practice
Extremely detailed overview of telegraphic codes. Lots of examples of codebooks and schemes for digitally encoding characters. Fascinating stuff.
to code encoding retrotech signalling telegraph ... on 27 May 2012
The early history of the telegraph in Britain. Impressively detailed.
to communications history retrotech telegraph ... on 05 April 2010
Wired Love by Ella Cheever Thayer - Project Gutenberg
"A Romance of Dots and Dashes." 1880 novel about online romance, via the medium of the telegraph. Not great literature, but it's amusing to see how little has changed.
to amusements etext retrotech telegraph ... on 08 January 2010
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tasty by Adam Sampson.