Posted on 04/27/2009 1:55:55 PM PDT by Steelfish
Google marks Samuel Morse's birthday with code logo
Google is marking the birthday of Samuel Morse by translating its name into dots and dashes for the day.
By Matthew Moore 27 Apr 2009
Google regularly releases versions of its logo to mark major world events and anniversaries. [Pic Logo in URL]
Visitors to the search engine's home page this morning were met with the code "–. --- --- –. .-.. ." instead of the usual Google logo.
The witty doodle is intended to honour Samuel Finley Breese Morse, the inventor of the single wire telegraph, who was born on April 27, 1791.
Morse only turned his hand to inventing in 1832, after meeting an expert in electromagnetism on a sea voyage.
He later patented his idea for a transmitting messages over electrical wires, which quickly became the standard method of swift long-distance communication. Every letter of the alphabet was translated into a combination of dots and dashes in the code to which he gave his name.
Google regularly releases versions of its logo to mark major world events and anniversaries. It is particularly keen to honour scientific discoveries, and has in the past produced doodles to herald the launch of the Large Hadron Collider and the birthdays of Albert Einstein and Leonardo da Vinci.
On April 23 last week it marked St George's Day and William Shakespeare's birthday with a cartoon-
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
heh I saw that this morn and had no idea what it was. lol
You now have a computer virus....
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OOL
Took me a while to catch on that they'd just messed up the formatting.
That is cool.
... -— ... | -— -... .- — .- | .. ... | .—. .-. . ... .. -.. . -. - | —..— | | -... .. -.. . -. | .. ... | ...- .—. | —..— | | .- -. -.. | .... .. .-.. .-.. .- .-. -.— | .. ... | ... . -.-. | ... - .- - . | ..—.. |
Thanks for the dots!
HARD | 2 | READ
What is google going to do for Chairman Mao’s Birthday?
Limit people to 2 searches per person?
?|OBAMA|IS|PRESIDENT|?|?|?|?...
One of the top ten search terms on Google today was “Morris Code”. :-(
Public school education strikes again.
de WT4Y
” One of the top ten search terms on Google today was “Morris Code”. :-( “
Morris Code is more like, Meow, Mew, Meow, Mew, Mrowr....
“Public school education strikes again.”
You were taught morse code in public school?
BTW: In 2003, the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ratified changes to the Radio Regulations to allow each country to determine whether it would require a person seeking an amateur radio operator license to demonstrate the ability to send and receive Morse code. The effect of this revision was to eliminate the international requirement that a person demonstrate Morse code proficiency in order to qualify for an amateur radio operator license with transmitting privileges on frequencies below 30 MHz.[
Attributed to Einstein: "You see, wire telegraph is a kind of a very, very long cat. You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat."
phonetically read is best.
You were taught morse code in public school?
No, but by the 4th grade I knew about Samuel Morse. :-)
I was first licensed in 1976 when the code was very much required. When the code requirement was eliminated, it was predicted that Morse Code would die away like the moderate Democrat. Oddly enough, Morse Code is getting quite popular again, see http://www.skccgroup.com/ (Straight Key Century Club).
>>You pull his tail in New York and his head is meowing in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? And radio operates exactly the same way: you send signals here, they receive them there. The only difference is that there is no cat.” <<
Ceiling cat is a prime example of spooky action at a distance.
http://www.scoutnet.nl/~inter/morse/morseform.html
Got it. Samuel F.B. Morse.
Capt. Bart Mancuso: “My Morse is so rusty, I’m probably sending him the measurements of the Playmate of the Month.”
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