tinbarber t1_iudabfl wrote
Reply to comment by Target880 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
At one point it was normal to have no spaces or punctuation between written words.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scriptio_continua
It’s interesting to think about spacing and punctuation as a technology.
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