by Syed The Shah
Member since:
May 25, 2007

Dots and Dashes - Morse's Birthday

April 27, 2009 12:57 PM EDT
views: 173 | comments: 60

Lol...

Today, a funny thing happened when I opened google.com and surprised finding that Generic Google logo was not loading and image seemed garbled. Although, I had waited to see why it took so much time today as google is the fastest search engine I have experienced. I thought of reloading and did so by pressing F5, same thing occurred again.

I could not figure out to certain that google played a trick today and that I found out after visualizing the image, I said "damn! yes it's april but not the 1st day of.", lol. I rolled over the mouse, thank God, the image was clickable, I just clicked and google brought me a huge list regarding the birthday of Samuel F. B. Morse, then, I could not resist my smile of embarrassment and laughed without doubt and muttered "Morse you made me fool", hahaha...

Courtesy: Google.com

And yes, today is the Samuel Morse's birthday, the inventor of the telegraph, a professional astist and the creator of Morse code.

Well, actually, it is google.com's one of creative imaginations that it places a logo on the main page relevant to the day or some most especial occasions, a very verstile way of celebrating by replacing the original logo.

Google's really innovative.
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Comments: 60

Karen G. Apr 27, 2009, 2:34pm EDT
That is funny. I dont think Morse code is used too much anymore though.
Gessy D. Apr 27, 2009, 2:47pm EDT
LOL
Lori C. Apr 27, 2009, 2:51pm EDT
LOL... How funny. I wonder how many people were thinking that something was wrong with there computer.
Kim Simpson Apr 27, 2009, 2:59pm EDT
Thanks for sharing Syed - at first I was taken aback by what I thought was garbled text - then it occurred to me that it might be Morse Code - thank you for confirming. Now I need to click the Google Morse Code to see all the info! :)
M & M. Apr 27, 2009, 3:03pm EDT
Hahaha thats funny Syed sugar. Thanks for posting this. Have a good day my sweet friend.
Sharon Hackleman Apr 27, 2009, 3:10pm EDT
Too cool! I was just reading about Morse last night in the book Notes from the Cosmos by Gordon-Michael Scallion...Trip! Thanks for sharing.
Jerri H. Apr 27, 2009, 3:22pm EDT
LOL! Too funny Shah!
Tara C. Apr 27, 2009, 3:22pm EDT
Too funny!
Eileen C. Apr 27, 2009, 3:43pm EDT
That's slick! I love their creative logos! I don't even go to their main search page anymore because I have a google search tab. I forgot all about their neat logos! Thanks for sharing!
Merry W. Apr 27, 2009, 3:44pm EDT
Funny! I haven't opened google yet. I will have to go check it out. Yup, those Google folks are always on top of things!
sherri stanczak Apr 27, 2009, 3:51pm EDT
That is awesome!
Shad Alexander Apr 27, 2009, 4:17pm EDT
Cool
Matthew A. Apr 27, 2009, 4:27pm EDT
Yeah that stumped me for a minute as well, but you have to admit that Google are some really creative peeps :)
Karen L. Apr 27, 2009, 4:28pm EDT
LOL, I think they got you!
Jurpe {awallflower} Apr 27, 2009, 4:29pm EDT
Morse code can get annoying at times, I had to learn in ROTC and my dad used it in Ham Radio.
That's too funny! Thanks for the laugh.
EDWINA (MISSIE) B. Apr 27, 2009, 6:08pm EDT
lol..too cute
~Jamie W. Apr 27, 2009, 7:15pm EDT
I'm pretty sure I would have thought my dial up was acting silly. This is a good one from them!
Sandra T. Apr 27, 2009, 7:21pm EDT
Aren't they clever?! : )
John Philipp Apr 27, 2009, 7:28pm EDT
Cool. Thanks.
Beth G. Apr 27, 2009, 8:10pm EDT
That is pretty funny.
Renee (Pres of Baby James Foundation) ~. Apr 27, 2009, 9:26pm EDT
lol
tonya brown Apr 27, 2009, 9:29pm EDT
lol
vickey w Apr 27, 2009, 9:39pm EDT
Thats interesting and thanks for the laugh
Susan W. Apr 27, 2009, 9:40pm EDT
lol cute story thanks for sharing it
Tammy E. Apr 27, 2009, 9:42pm EDT
lol, Thanks for sharing!
Gregory B. Apr 27, 2009, 9:51pm EDT
yah..funny..noticed that too when i bumped into google..
Victor Yakin Apr 27, 2009, 9:55pm EDT
I did not see that until you mentioned it....thanks for sharing.....have a great night
Teresa H. Apr 28, 2009, 1:02am EDT
That is funny.
Jan S. Apr 28, 2009, 1:56am EDT
Very clever joke!
LaRae E. Apr 28, 2009, 5:05am EDT
I am glad you shared this I needed a giggle.
pamela r. Apr 28, 2009, 8:18am EDT
very clever way to keep people on their toes :)
FD Crandall Apr 28, 2009, 10:10am EDT
That is rather clever. Too good for a Monday morning.
Jodi G. Apr 28, 2009, 10:37am EDT
that's too funny
Tammy N. Apr 28, 2009, 10:55am EDT
Chock one up for Google! Great way to mark the day!
Netty B. Apr 28, 2009, 12:44pm EDT
stopping by to "bother you" lol
Netty B. Apr 28, 2009, 12:44pm EDT
And, yes, google comes up with some good ones!
Sandra T. Apr 28, 2009, 12:55pm EDT
I didn't know that! It was also my sister and law's birthday
joseph k. Apr 28, 2009, 4:52pm EDT
funny
Syn C. Apr 28, 2009, 8:17pm EDT
Very clever.
Shelly B. Apr 29, 2009, 3:11am EDT
Thanks for sharing..I love it when google changes their logo for special holidays and other special occasions...the Morse code was a good one! :)
Eucliffe L. Apr 29, 2009, 11:25pm EDT
Cute,very cute! ._..
rajendra singh s. May 1, 2009, 12:31pm EDT
SO FUNNY
Praj S. May 2, 2009, 1:52pm EDT
LOL so funny. I had noticed that too
glenda j. May 3, 2009, 8:50am EDT
ty
DIANE D. May 6, 2009, 7:02pm EDT
lol, funny!~
Robyn F. May 6, 2009, 11:12pm EDT
lol!
Rebecca Bryson May 8, 2009, 11:33am EDT
This was funny, the only time I would hear a type of morse code would be on my school bus radio every time a message was relayed beepp ddd beep beep beep laughing
Bhawana 'Gather Proud Mom' May 12, 2009, 3:08pm EDT
I saw this and was so surprised...You picked the right topic,Shah...impressed me ...More

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Todd .. May 12, 2009, 6:53pm EDT

Very interesting.


Thanks for the comment.
Ginger C. May 13, 2009, 2:13pm EDT
I saw that too! I love how Google does that for holidays!
Vinod Sailes May 27, 2009, 1:06am EDT

Very interestingly surprising indeed!
DIANE D. Jun 8, 2009, 5:02am EDT

This is funny, thanks for sharing~
William Dotani Jun 9, 2009, 4:03pm EDT

Nice cool humor.
Sheila Deeth Jun 24, 2009, 11:44pm EDT

That was neat!
edna r. Jul 2, 2009, 4:06am EDT

funny
William Dotani Nov 11, 2009, 8:43am EST
Maybe you have the ghost of Mr. Morese in your machine trying to understand all the ones and zeroes.
Cortney R. Nov 18, 2009, 3:11pm EST
Cool, I would have thought that something was wrong with my computer.
Lady of Lake Merritt =P Nov 23, 2009, 2:54pm EST
good for google, that's pretty neat
Shannon R. Dec 24, 2009, 3:48pm EST
My uncle tried to teach us morse code when we were young. We were not interested but any kind of codes are pretty cool when you think about it.

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