Friday, January 13, 2012

Telegraphy

3 ways it's similar to the Internet: -Information is encoded when sent and translated by the receiver -Allows information to be transmitted faster and longer distances;promotes globalization. -Could be used to gather various news items; early form of a news feed 3 ways it's different: -Manual translation and understanding of Morse code is needed rather than a browser translating the information for you -Sequence of dots and dashes used with telegraph while binary code is used for memory in computers. -Telgraph can only primarily transmit text based messages 1 fun fact: -Then telegraph was widely used until 1877 when it was replaced by the telephone

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