[ADXA] [Cq-l] CQ News: Google Marks Morse's Birthday

[Lenny]

>From the CQ Newsroom:

If you use the Google search engine (www.google.com) today, you'll be in for a surprise: The Google logo is in Morse Code:



According to the Search Engine Roundtable, the folks at Google put the logo into Morse Code in honor of Samuel F. B. Morse's birthday today. Morse was born on  April 27, 1791. Various reports credit Morse as inventor of the telegraph and of the code that bears his name. That is actually only half correct. While Morse did indeed invent the telegraph, his original code was a series of numbers that corresponded to word-entries in a book at each telegraph station. It was Morse's assistant, Alfred Vail, who actually developed the dot-dash code that allowed any word to be sent efficiently, without the need for "translations."

Google regularly gets creative with its logo in order to honor special people or events, with a particular focus on pioneers in science and technology. While there is nothing official, we are assuming that the letters in the logo are staggered in order to fit within the standard space allotted on the web page for the Google logo.

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