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Text Message | Sunday Magazine "FRIENDS THEY NEVER MEET: ACQUAINTANCES MADE BY THE TELEGRAPH KEY. CONFIDENCES EXCHANGED BETWEEN MEN WHO HAVE NEVER SEEN EACH OTHER - THEIR PECULIAR CONVERSATION ABBREVIATIONS." Cool steampunk stuff. Via andrewducker.
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Writing Vim Plugins / Steve Losh What it says on the tin.
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[amuchmoreexotic]

"I’m nt flg vy wl; fraid I’ve gt t mlaria." !!!

The Victorian Internet by Tom Standage has a lot more about how the telegraph paralleled what we think of as modern internet culture.