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Morse Doodle

hebbet [PersonRank 10]

Sunday, April 26, 2009
15 years ago17,572 views

http://www.google.com.vn/logos/samuelmorse09.gif

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

E.g. on Google Vietnam right now:
http://www.google.com.vn/

Also see:
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2003_12_23_index.html#107219748107057100
http://blogoscoped.com/archive/2004_07_09_index.html

David Hetfield [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Great doodle! :)

Jason [PersonRank 0]

15 years ago #

another crypto message from google..
dots on the logo are each one meant to be there for a reason, right philipp? ;)

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

It searches
http://www.google.com.vn/search?q=Samuel+Morse&ct=samuelmorse09&oi=ddle

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Hey time to check
http://www.google.com/
too...

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Here's what "Google" actually sounds like when sent using Morse Code (mp3 file):
http://quezi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/google-morse-code.mp3

Also, "Who still uses Morse Code?"
http://quezi.com/973

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

<< Every time someone plays Beethoven’s Fifth, it starts with the Morse code for “V”. >>

Roger, that's a great little fact that I've never realised before!

On a related note, the default text message tone used by many Nokia handsets is morse code for "SMS".

[Edit: Sorry, I guess I should have read your whole article properly first... I see you mentioned that one too!]

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

<< Every time someone plays Beethoven’s Fifth, it starts with the Morse code for “V”. >>

That's why those notes were used in the UK during World War 2 to introduce news and propaganda broadcasts, even though Beethoven was German: "V for Victory".

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

There are many readers not familiar with morse code, the picture doesn't say "morse" :)

A tip: http://www.onlineconversion.com/morse_code.htm

TOMHTML [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Today is also Eric Schmidt's birthday... He turns 53. Happy birthday!

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

<< There are many readers not familiar with morse code, the picture doesn't say "morse" :) >>

Who said it says "Morse"? I think everyone knows it says "Google". Don't they?

Roger Browne [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

http://artofmanliness.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/morse-code.jpg

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

Is there any relevance to the different level of the letter Gs and letter E in the doodle or is that just a bit of artistic license?

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

That Nokia default text message tone fact is very well known here in "Nokialand" :)

Juha-Matti Laurio [PersonRank 10]

15 years ago #

[put at-character here]Tony: Yes, maybe not so many are expecting to see "Morse"... they see "Google"

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