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    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: I can see how it would conserve characters, and keep the info private from random passers-by or telegram delivery boys, but the telegraph operators wo... more »
    Discodave: R.O.A.C.H. M.O.T.E.L.: Especially Evidential is pleasing alliterative and also quite pithy. Hortyard, however, is my new favourite word. more »
    Evil Tortie's Mom: R.O.A.C.H.: Hominy. Mopishness. more »
    tudza: Well, I wonder if the original users of this ever managed to memorize it, or if they had to carry around a code table. If you have to carry a code ta... more »
    k4man: There was also a secret, secondary code of shorthand that the telegraph operators used after hours only amidst themselves. more »
    goldfarb: even better... "Over 69 years, Quincy Adams filled 51 volumes with diaristic entries, and he was frequently juggling several diaries. One included len... more »
    crashedpc - Haifisch: Holy crap, that stuff is obtuse. But I bet it'd be awesome once you got the hang of it. "FLANK! FLAAAAAAAAANK!" more »
    bluehinter: Kavass hypozoic desertless evidential flank especially lambative morisco. more »
    Caitlin Petrakovitz: I feel the Borg would have been much more succinct if they'd gone with simply "Roselite." Though obviously not nearly as quotable. more »
    tetracycloide: so what you're saying is that lol speak didn't kill the english language because it decemvir? more »
    southerngeek: As an attorney, I must say lambative morisco blockish. Separately, rutaceous. more »
    zerofritz: original book can be found, thanks to expired copyright, here: [bit.ly] PS: Holy crap: was that a URL that auto-linked? PPS: yeah, before you edited... more »
    North Star: "Boutade. Banisher. I am slank." more »
    omgwtflolbbqbye: I have to wonder if "Can you recommend me to a good female cook" (under "CRISP") is another code in itself... more »
    Bill-Lee: What I find surprising is that some of these things did come to pass, although not exactly as imagined: Number 8 is a form of television; tourists do ... more »
    92BuickLeSabre: Why don't we all float to work on personal balloons again? That would make my commute 100x more awesome. more »
    se7a7n7: Great example of how it's nearly impossible to accurately predict the what the future will look like because the prediction is grounded by what is cur... more »
    crashedpc - Haifisch: So even back then they had "In the Year 2000"? more »
    kosai: For some reason this very strongly reminds me of Mary Shelley's "The Last Man" more »
  • #steampunktwitter

    Learn to Twitter Like It's 1899

    It's Twitter as Ada Lovelace would have imagined. To conserve characters and keep transmissions private, Victorians often wrote their telegrams in code. Refer to this handy list to make your tweets more efficient and confuse your friends. [NYT via Metafilter]
  • #retrofuturism

    A Future of Petticoats and Personal Airships

    While steampunkers imagine that Edwardian technology could achieve improbable feats, Edwardians themselves often did the same. These turn of the century postcards depict a glorious future where phenomenal technologies are powered by electricity and steam. More »
  • #triviagasm

    The Victorian-Era Supercomputer And The Genius Who Created It

  • #justiceleague

    The Justice League Of America Goes Steampunk

    The big screen version of the Justice League of America has been put on hold and sent back to the drawing board. Plus, The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen movie was fairly craptastic. But pretend, for a moment, that the two projects collided in your imagination and the resulting movie kicked ass. Got it? Now imagine that it had some even more kick-ass action figures to go with it. Stop pretending and feast your eyes on the gallery below. More »