At the New York Farmers Museum blog, a fun post on how rural folks attempted to reduce data charges in 1906 with "telegraph ciphers," shorthand codes to replace longer, commonly typed words and phrases. These, my children, are the LOLs and WTFs of our farming ancestors. (via Submitterator, thanks Paul Coleman)
How American farmers avoided data charges in the telegraph days
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