Yup this is an oldie. Of course no one was on the observation deck that morning since it hadn’t opened yet. I do believe some of the staff of the businesses on the observation floor were already there and died. I seem to recall hearing a Sabaro’s employee died (there were a few NYC style eateries on the observation floor.)

I have it on good authority that after the towers collapsed Trump tower became the tallest building in NYC. In fact, Trump called into a news broadcast to proclaim that hours after they’d fallen.

I mean to be fair people were joking about 9/11 way before that time, even South Park made fun of 9/11 a few years later when they made that 9/11 conspiracy episode.

Ouch, a valentines days 9/11 card

Yeah I’ve heard most countries flip the month and day around so it’d be 11/9 so 9/11 sounds strange to them since it’d be implying November 9th rather than September 11th.

Garfield orchestrated the worst terrorist attack in history

Man I miss when Subway used to be affordable.

No planes in this one. In fact, you have to have lived through Duhbya’s presidency or be very knowledgable of it to understand the humor this subtle 20-oughts meme.

From around 2007

Nah. We now have videographic evidence of who was in control of 9/11

Some good oldies on that site.

I thought the younger generations were even more radical about 9/11 jokes?

Looks about right. Also spotted this antique of a 9/11 meme while there.

Jack Handy, a writer from SNL is the actual author. But these days the voice I hear in my mind when I read it is of Gul Dukat and it fits well.

Still waiting for my DOGE and tariff rebate checks that he promised.

Corposhills have been trying to destroy the USPS for years now. They are invested in competitors and don’t like how USPS subsidizes cheaper postage rates. Ironically states resorting to using Fedex and UPS to deliver ballots is exactly what these shills want.

Reddit is 80%+ bots so I don’t expect those accounts to shift platforms. But I do imagine some former reddit users will trickle over as it continues to alienate its fanbase with stupid choices like getting rid of old reddit.

If they hadn’t killed the fairness doctrine maybe they wouldn’t be in this position.

Righto. To be fair I should be probably refer to the coded message as a cipher and the decoded message as the translation. Baudot’s original bit system was made for French, it got popular in France and then Britain and eventually the USA. It was later tweaked by another guy so the code put less wear on the machinery verse operators dexterity as Baudot had done. This is called Baudot-Murray code.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ug5lUI-hs3s

This video shows a Baudot teletype machine and he explains the basic principles well. It also operates and he shows you how the electromagnet converts the signal pulses to a letter selection via linkages.

You can also hear how fast the signal is as it’s running. No way a human operator could tap that out. The first few decades of telegraphy were human controlled, hence why Morse’s code was popular since it was tailored for human abilities. Once telegraphy got established, lines were run and the technology was generating money you start to see automatic machines come around to speed things up.

The first automatic machines worked by punching the code out on a paper ribbon first, then you ran that message through a special telegraphy key. This allowed Morse code to be sent as fast as possible. Registers were common place since the beginning so recording the signal to be decoded to english was simple. This was the era of “battery rooms”, since it was all DC powered and a proper DC generator hadn’t come around yet. Also the era of rooms filled with operators, often women, coding messages into punch-card-ribbons to be sent and decoding register ribbon into english.

Post Civil War we see all of this mature into new coding methods, multiplexing (where Edison made his first fortune), binary transmission systems like Baudot code and eventually transmission of voice. Ironically, Alexander Graham Bell was working on a multiplexing telegraph device (harmonic telegraph that used 4 tuned forks to send multiple codes of various frequency that 4 tuned receiver forks could receive independently of each other across a single line) when he figured out voice could be sent.

One of these tuning forks metal reed had become struck to the electromagnet and Watson plucked it free. Bell, in another room, heard his devices corresponding fork undulate when it was plucked free. He didn’t hear the solid pulse you’d normally hear, he heard it undulate. Bell had studied hearing his whole life (his wife was deaf) so he understood immediately when he heard the undulation that sound could be sent electrically. So he gave up the harmonic telegraph (which didn’t work well because tuning forks were finicky as hell–it wouldn’t be until vacuum tubes came around that it became practical) and started working on the telephone.

Lots of fun history. A distinct period of innovation in the broader Industrial Revolution. When a guy who could understand mechanical movements could invent something that’d make him like $800,000.