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UserMaatRe t1_iuca43j wrote on October 30, 2022 at 6:10 AM

Reply to comment by Senpai_Pai in ELI5: Morse code is made up of dots and dashes. How did telegraph operators keep from losing track of where one letter ended and another began? by copperdomebodhi

Not sure about Morse code, but early teletype terminals had special characters that would act as "backspace a symbol" or "backspace a word". I imagine it's the same thing.