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moon_custafer ([personal profile] moon_custafer) wrote2011-09-19 09:24 am
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Telegram

Made this to be an LJ icon, but if I shrink it to 100 pixels square, the text is too small to read:
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I don't want to change the text because that's an actual newspaper story; a slightly letter setting than the picture, but I imagine telegraph operators had been chatting between official messages for a few decades before the rest of the world noticed.
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[identity profile] fragrantwoods.livejournal.com 2011-09-19 02:03 pm (UTC)(link)
Early on-line flist!
How about an icon with text-speak on that great picture?

25 brix, dude, WTF??

[identity profile] fragrantwoods.livejournal.com 2011-09-19 02:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Great story, btw.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2011-09-19 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
<<< How's this?

Have to write some more scenes with him and Merrick.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2011-09-19 02:09 pm (UTC)(link)
There's apparently a whole book on the telegraph called The Victorian Internet.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2011-09-19 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
Just found some period telegraph magazines on google books - am downloading.

[identity profile] zagzagael.livejournal.com 2011-09-19 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)
I love love love this.

It's a fascinating thing....same with Ham radio and CB radio and missives in books in libraries...we must communicate...

[identity profile] fragrantwoods.livejournal.com 2011-09-19 06:16 pm (UTC)(link)
-Dies laughing-

Awesome!

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2011-09-19 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
Image (http://tinypic.com?ref=p5el3)

[identity profile] donald hutton (from livejournal.com) 2011-09-19 08:45 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah, the InterNet after this one was Ham Radio. WIRED had a great article at one point reprinting the "dot-com" boosterism in the press releases of the Ham enthusiasts. One guy was sure that it was going to end war as all mankind would soon be able to instantaneously communicate!

[identity profile] fragrantwoods.livejournal.com 2011-09-19 10:52 pm (UTC)(link)
I want a fanfic on this. Please. With sugar on top.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2011-09-20 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
Contrariwise, I read an argument once from an historian in the 1930s that WWI wouldn't have happened w/o instantaneous communications, because everyone would've had time to calm down about the Archduke.

I'm a bit dubious, though, because wars had been breaking out for centuries without the help of telegraph, and also in hindsight it looks like many Europeans in the early 20th century were spoiling for a fight, though I've never been sure why.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2011-09-20 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
we must communicate...

And briefly! Come to think of it, Bertie Wooster spoke in some great abbreviations in Wodehouse's stories.

[identity profile] moon-custafer.livejournal.com 2011-09-20 02:04 am (UTC)(link)
I kind of ship Blazanov and Merrick - maybe Blazanov can try to teach his friend code so they can send supr sekrit messages, which then get misspelled in a way that leads to hilarious romantic misunderstandings....

[identity profile] fragrantwoods.livejournal.com 2011-09-21 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, yes, please!! They're half-way there, if you squint.

Which, I wish Merrick wasn't so Jeffry Jones-ish. He needs to quit getting arrested--every time he is, another, MORE unflattering mug shot gets posted online.

I still <3 Merrick, the character, though. Not as much as Blazanov, but...yeah.

[identity profile] theengineer.livejournal.com 2011-09-23 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
It is an excellent book, highly recommended.
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