Mentally decoding the missive, Blok realised it was spelling one facetious word, over and over: “Rats”. A glance at the output of the nearby Morse printer confirmed this. The incoming Morse then got more personal, mocking Marconi: “There was a young fellow of Italy, who diddled the public quite prettily,” it trilled. Further rude epithets - apposite lines from Shakespeare - followed.
— Dot-dash-diss: The gentleman hacker’s 1903 lulz
Short URL for this post: http://tmblr.co/ZYYmbyEeyDwE
