[LostInBayport]

THEY SHOULDN’T DO THAT! SOME OF US ARE HARD OF HEARING AND CAN’T MAKE OUT THE WORDS WHEN THEY WHISPER THEM!

[bgill]

I dOn’T cArE. i’M sMaRt EnOuGh To ReAd It In UpPeR oR lOwEr CaSe.

AnD cUrSiVe.

[KarlInOhio]

TORNADO watch

[Inyo-Mono]

WOW! WHAT A BIG change this will be.

[Paladin2]

Long live the teletype....

[centurion316]

Telex and later TWX were telephone based messaging systems that would transmit messages over phone lines. They had a limited character set, so lowercase characters were not implemented. The military and international messaging used the same technology. The printers received the message via phone lines and typed the message without operator input. Telex and TWX systems are still in use.

[Falconspeed]

Too funny. The capitals from the Weather Service always seemed “over the top” and “too official.” Caps are the effects of the telegraph. Amazing history.

[dgbrown]

I remember the day I was told to “stop yelling”.

[tumblindice]

NOR’EASTER ADOLPH NAMED ITSELF, WE HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH IT.

[deks]

The TELEGRAM and CABLEGRAM were in all caps too

On January 26, 2006, Western Union stopped providing the service it became famous for: sending telegrams. The company officially got out of the communications business and shifted to financial services and money transfers. In 2005, the number of telegrams sent by Western Union was 1 percent of the number sent in 1929.

[MamaDearest]

But how is Cher going to read weather reports now?

[pigsmith]

AS LONG AS THEY STOP USING BRIGHT GREEN LETTERS ON A BRIGHT GREEN BACKGROUND, it’ll be fine.

[Liberty Valance]

Thank goodness. U&L is so much more legible.

Wake me when the forecast is in cursive.

[GOP Poet]

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[ThomasThomas]

WEATHER CAN BE NOISY!!!