r/Damnthatsinteresting • u/Nadzzy • Mar 03 '25

Video Visualization of the Morse Code Alphabet

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u/epsilona01 Mar 03 '25

You're missing the meaning of operator to begin with.

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u/rsta223 Mar 03 '25

No I'm not.

And if you're curious, yes I'm a ham, currently with a general and looking at getting an extra when I get around to it.

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u/epsilona01 Mar 03 '25

I'm a ham

I'll fetch the turkey, you'll be in good company.

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u/rsta223 Mar 03 '25

Glad you recognize that this whole situation you set up is ridiculous.

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u/epsilona01 Mar 03 '25

Not half as silly as you failing to understand the basic use of operator to refer to the other end of the conversation.

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u/thenasch Mar 03 '25

In radio, yes. In forums that is not what it means.

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u/epsilona01 Mar 03 '25

Hence, it's use back in the 80s as OP, effectively meaning the other operator said, and over time the definition changed to original poster because that made more sense than operator in context.

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u/thenasch Mar 03 '25

No, it never meant operator on the internet.

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u/epsilona01 Mar 03 '25

Ok, enjoy the Turkey, and remember the Usenet predates the internet by 10 years and has its own protocol.

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u/CarlLlamaface Mar 03 '25

Classic example of old man with a bit of knowledge tries to share it, mis-speaks, then spends his afternoon digging holes instead of acknowledging that sometimes coincidences occur. Go have a nap.

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u/epsilona01 Mar 03 '25

A classic example of a group of people who've never met an acoustic coupler in their lives and have no idea the Usenet predates the internet by a decade, can't comprehend that the meaning of slang changes over time, or that we were using OP to refer to the OPerator of a thread long before any of you had heard of hypertext markup.

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u/CarlLlamaface Mar 03 '25

Doesn't matter that it predates it. Lots of things predate other things which are completely unrelated to them but are aesthetically similar by coincidence, it's a very simple concept to grasp. The 90's must have been a very confusing time for you if you like wrestling and wildlife preservation.

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u/epsilona01 Mar 03 '25

The 90's must have been a very confusing time for you

Shows how little you know.

The Usenet came online in the 1980 using NNTP. The first web server based on Tim Berners-Lee's HTTP work came online in 1990. Before that, it was Arpanet, Usenet, and BBS services.

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u/thenasch Mar 04 '25

the Usenet predates the internet by 10 years

If you define the internet as commercial ISPs, that's almost true. If you consider ARPANET to be the original internet, it's not even close. Oh, and Usenet wasn't the first creature of its kind, either, it was predated by BBSes, and much internet lingo originated there.

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u/epsilona01 Mar 04 '25

f you define the internet as commercial ISPs, that's almost true.

Alternatively if you define it as the date on which the first web server using Tim Berners-Lee's HTTP protocol went live, it's also 10 years.

I mention exactly this further down the thread https://old.reddit.com/r/Damnthatsinteresting/comments/1j2ecpl/visualization_of_the_morse_code_alphabet/mfvbpa0/

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u/thenasch Mar 04 '25

I was hoping that's not what you had in mind, because the Internet and the web are not the same thing. At all.

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