Mar 22
how did telegrams work?
like if I was a particularly bored telegraph operator, and had a buddy who was also a bored telegraph operator, could we send each other pictures using something like ascii art? either using the limited character set of morse code, or the patterns of the dots and dashes themselves?
did people ever do this? if not, why not? humans make art with anything we can get our hands on; I feel like somebody must have tried coming up with a vague process to send pictures this way, even if they were incredibly simple.
is there like?? a telegraphy museum I can go to to ask this question?? I feel like I need someone with a hyperfixation and an archive to tell me telegram facts, and I've never been in this position before
