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June 05, 2012

more history from yesterday - june 4th .. an early hacking

Hacking wireless from 109 years ago ...

from a New Scientist article - a must read

snip

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Mentally decoding the missive, Blok realised it was spelling one facetious word, over and over: "Rats". A glance at the output of the nearby Morse printer confirmed this. The incoming Morse then got more personal, mocking Marconi: "There was a young fellow of Italy, who diddled the public quite prettily," it trilled. Further rude epithets - apposite lines from Shakespeare - followed.

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